This year’s summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, falls on June 20, 2021. This official start to the summer season is the day of the year when Earth is tilting mostly toward the sun, with the noonday sun shining directly overhead. If that’s not reason to celebrate, we don’t know what is. Here are seven ways you can welcome the summer sun and enjoy the beauty of the season.
Archaeologists studied the Vaughn Branch area (the former Carpenter Farm) in 1989* and found evidence that Native farming people, whom archaeologists refer to at Fort Ancient, had once lived here from A.D. 1200-1400. With information from sites around the region, here’s an idea of what life was like for these people at Vaughn Branch.
Finally our fossil has a home. Cincinnati Museum has accepted the woodland elk fossil that was found at our nature preserve by Bill Johnstone into their notable regional collection. Roadtrip!
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