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Jan 6, 2016 by FLB

2016 Lecture Series

Amy Trout

Global Pioneers – New Haven and the China Trade: Join Curator Amy Trout from the Connecticut River Museum as she discusses New Haven’s brief but exciting foray into the China Trade and the troubles New Haveners encountered in their search for overseas profit.

Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 7 pm at the Guilford Free Library. Remaining Programs in the 3-Part Series:

Tuesday, Feb. 16: Casting for a Variety of Fish around the World with Andrew Weaver

Tuesday, Mar. 15: Sea of No Plastic: Student Presentation on “Using Art to Share Learning” with Joe Bernier.

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Mar 30, 2015 by FLB

Welcome Project Rakefish

The Rakefish
The Rakefish

The newest addition to the Brigade is the Environmental Education Committee. Initially, the committee will promote and support local student efforts to encourage ocean stewardship. The first initiative will be the “Rakefish Project”. The “Rakefish Project” is a collaborative, traveling, research endeavor that is demonstrated through art on the topic of marine litter. The purpose of the project is to bring awareness of how human habits and behaviors, involving single use plastic products, have had a profound negative impact on the environment. The project began in the Guilford Public Schools as an art project.

The “Rakefish” sculpture is a 4 foot long fish made mostly of broken plastic rake and it was created by third grade students in 2011. The sculpture has traveled extensively, visiting host schools across the United States and Australia. The sculpture is currently in Japan. In addition to “Rakefish”, Guilford art students have created two sea turtle sculptures, made mostly of plastic waste materials. They are designed to offer students the same research opportunities and interactive components as the original “Rakefish”. All of the sculptures are part of the “Sea of No Plastic” initiative, (seaofnoplastic.org) which functions as an information hub for all three sculptures. Currently, both of the sea turtle sculptures are preparing to visit host schools. One will be sent to the Dominican Republic and the other will be sent to Mystic, CT. Click on the Project Rakefish tab for more information.

 

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New for 2017 – Faulkner’s Island Tern Cam

The Faulkner Island Tern camera is a partnership with Menunkatuck Audubon Society,  The Stewart B. McKinney Wildlife Preserve (McKinney NWR), and Faulkner's Light Brigade. Funded by a grant from the Guilford Foundation the Webcam records activities of seals and birds on the rocky north spit of the island. Click here to view.
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The Faulkner's Light Brigade (FLB) was formed as a commission of the Guilford Preservation Alliance in 1991. Its fundamental mission was to investigate the ways and means of saving the historic Faulkner's Island Lighthouse and the island itself from threatening erosion in the east embankment. Faulkner's Island Light … [Read More...]

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