What's New
Important announcement regarding NEBC monthly meetings for 2019-2020: Starting in September 2019, NEBC will undertake an exploratory shift to holding our regular monthly meetings on Saturday afternoons at 4:00PM+. This change follows from discussions in NEBC Council last spring about ways to increase member participation at monthly meetings. In our online survey from 2018, we saw that a large number of NEBC members found the traditional meeting time on Friday evenings difficult to accommodate in their work and personal schedules and inconvenient for travel into the Boston area. Our hope is that the new meeting time on Saturday afternoons might support increased participation from NEBC members, both for those in the Boston area and for members from further afield. We also hope that this shift might allow for greater involvement in other club activities associated with the meetings, such as volunteer hours in the herbarium or workshops that will be planned for Saturday afternoons prior to 4:00 PM. We will undertake this new meeting time on a trial basis in 2019-2020 and plan to re-assess in the spring when looking ahead to setting the schedule for Fall 2020 meetings. Please feel free to share your comments or concerns about this change with NEBC by emailing president@rhodora.org
EAGLE HILL INSTITUTE DISCOUNTS: The Eagle Hill Institute, Steuben, ME, is again offering NEBC members a 20% discount for the seminars and workshops it offers on the eastern Maine coast. This is applied towards tuition and accommodations, but not meals. Also, NEBC will give a stipend of $150 towards costs for the first 10 NEBC members who register for a botany course. Contact John Burns at nebc@rhodora.org for details. Eagle Hill calendar.
