Tag: Anne Demarais Nature Center
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Budding geologists learn about meteorites at the Anne Demarais Nature Center
Rocks really do fall from the sky. They are called meteorites. That’s what Callan and Garrett Holmes learned at the Anne Demarais Nature Center’s “Tuesday Family Fun Night” July 12. The nature center is at the end of Drexel Avenue in Lawrence. Thomas Duffy, a Princeton University geosciences professor, explained the origins of rocks from…
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Lawrence Township Nature Center will be renamed after open space advocate
Without Anne Demarais, there likely would not have been a Lawrence Greenways trail network, nor would Drexel Woods, at the southern end of Drexel Avenue, have been saved from development. The Pole Farm at Mercer Meadows Park on Cold Soil Road likely also would have been developed, and Demarais was also a leading advocate for…