South Fork Natural History Museum & Nature Center

MUSEUM CLOSED: Private Event
2024-06-15

SOFO’s Spring Jazz Celebration featuring the Jazzy Sounds of Carl Safina & The Natural Causes band
2024-06-15 13:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | SOFO
Enjoy the mood and move to the groove with Carl Safina and The Natural Causes. Hors d’oeuvres & refreshments will be served. Reservations required, call 631-537-9735 to reserve. Rain date: Sunday, June 16, 2024.

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YES! Presents: Posture and Strength, Wellness Sundays
2024-06-16 10:30 - 11:30 | SOFO
Come and learn about how you can improve your posture and overall strength with Dina Khairy. Awaken your body and prepare for a new season with this class! Please bring a yoga mat, water, and wear comfortable shoes. Limited enrollment.
Program Leader: Dina Khairy, Yoga Studio Owner
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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MUSEUM CLOSED: School Group (10 am - 1 pm)
2024-06-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-06-21 10:00 - 13:00

SOFO’s East End Outdoor Nature Education with Crystal at Poxabogue Preserve, Bridgehampton
2024-06-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Bridgehampton
SOFO is offering a monthly program which will take place on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and following Saturday at 1 pm for children ages 3 to 7 years and is geared toward homeschooling families. Programs will have a variety of activities to strengthen language development, literacy, math, and science and will take place at various locations on Eastern Long Island.
We will continue our adventures on Wednesday June 19, 2024, exploring Poxabogue Pond Preserve meeting the different plants of Pitch Pine, Oak-Hickory, and Red Maple Swamp forests and looking for Eastern Bluebirds in a hilltop field. We will also enjoy some stories, simple nature journals, and worksheets to take home.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Specialist. Crystal Possehl-Oakes, the program leader, has worked as an environmental educator at SOFO since 2005 and part-time since 2019 after her son Wyatt was born. Wyatt and I look forward to meeting you and learning with you!
This program is for families with children ages 3-7.
There is a $10 per child admission/material fee, which includes a participating adult. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Easy Does It Yoga with Karen Meyer
2024-06-20 16:15 - 17:30, 2024-06-27 16:15 - 17:30 | SOFO
Easy does it!
Let’s explore finding and maintaining balance,
Listening to inner wisdom,
Following Divine Guidance through breath,
Mindfully moving from inspiration to action,
Connecting with self, with others and with Nature.

Yoga
Please join Karen for an hour of Yoga at
SOFO on Thursday afternoons, starting June 13th @ 4:15 PM
We will practice outside, in the beauty of Nature
(In the back of the building, on a wooden patio, protected from the sun)

Please bring your own props
(yoga mat, 2 blocks, a strap, a towel, and water)
Wear comfortable clothing
Everyone welcome, regardless of experience
RSVP is mandatory
as class size is limited
with respect to individualized needs

Yoga Instructor: Karen Meyer
This program is for adults.
For non-members, there is a $25 fee for this program. For SOFO members, there is a $20 fee for this program. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

Limited enrollment. Register with Karen at 917-843-2555 or MoonheartMeyer@gmail.com.

Full "Strawberry Moon" Hike with Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt
2024-06-21 21:00 | SOFO
Join FLPG and SOFO on a leisurely-paced hike through open-field trails. This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. It was christened for the strawberry because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June. Meet at the SOFO Museum parking lot, 377 Bridgehampton Turnpike, 200 yards north of the RR tracks. Hikes are limited to 25 participants. To register by email, contact greenbeltnews@aol.com.
Walk Leader: Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, 631-599-2391.
Co-sponsored by SOFO and Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt.
This FREE program is for all ages. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Dragonfly Field Day at Mashomack Preserve, Shelter Island
2024-06-22 10:00 | Shelter Island
Dragonflies are beautiful, beneficial and truly fascinating. Dragonfly expert Kevin Munroe will lead this exploration at Mashomack Preserve’s Bass Creek and Sanctuary Pond. Come search for dragonflies and use hand nets to capture and get rare, closeup looks at these colorful and amazing insects. You’ll even get a chance to briefly hold them before they’re released. Reservations required as space is limited.
Co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and SOFO.
This FREE program is for all ages. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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SOFO’s East End Outdoor Nature Education with Crystal at Poxabogue Preserve, Bridgehampton
2024-06-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Bridgehampton
SOFO is offering a monthly program which will take place on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and following Saturday at 1 pm for children ages 3 to 7 years and is geared toward homeschooling families. Programs will have a variety of activities to strengthen language development, literacy, math, and science and will take place at various locations on Eastern Long Island.
We will continue our adventures on Saturday June 22, 2024, exploring Poxabogue Pond Preserve meeting the different plants of Pitch Pine, Oak-Hickory, and Red Maple Swamp forests and looking for Eastern Bluebirds in a hilltop field. We will also enjoy some stories, simple nature journals, and worksheets to take home.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Specialist. Crystal Possehl-Oakes, the program leader, has worked as an environmental educator at SOFO since 2005 and part-time since 2019 after her son Wyatt was born. Wyatt and I look forward to meeting you and learning with you!
This program is for families with children ages 3-7.
There is a $10 per child admission/material fee, which includes a participating adult. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Join in Observing World Ocean Day with an Experiment on Ocean Acidification
2024-06-23 10:30 | SOFO
Join SOFO for an experiment to learn about the effects of ocean acidification on the health of our local shell forming marine life.
Program Leader: Ian Robinson, SOFO Environmental Educator
This program is for adults, teens, and children ages 8+.
For non-members, there is a $15 fee for adults and a $10 fee for children for this program. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Celebrate National Flamingo Day: Flamingo Storytime & Craft
2024-06-23 10:30
Join SOFO Docent Cindy Lenkiewicz for a special storytime and simple flamingo craft. Learn more about these beautiful creatures─there was even a rare sighting of an American Flamingo recently in East Hampton!
Program Leader: Cindy Lenkiewicz, SOFO Docent
This program is for families with children ages 3-7.
This FREE program is best for families with children ages 3-7. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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YES! Presents: Mindful Movement, Wellness Sundays
2024-06-23 10:30 - 11:30 | SOFO
Come experience the joy of mindful movement with Karen Meyer. Focus will be on the balance of conscious breathing, peace and calm from meditation and sound healing. Please bring a yoga mat, water, and wear comfortable shoes. Limited enrollment.
Program Leader: Karen Meyer, Yoga Teacher
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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MUSEUM CLOSED: Private Event (2 pm - 4 pm)
2024-06-23 14:00 - 16:00

In Person @ SOFO and on Zoom: What’s Up in the Sky?
2024-06-27 19:30 | Zoom / SOFO
The longest days of summer also bring the shortest nights, but there is still no shortage of exciting celestial sights this season. This summer the Moon will cover up one of the brightest stars in the sky (Spica), the annual Perseid meteor shower will be splendid, and the planets Mars and Jupiter will meet up for exceptionally close rendezvous in the sky. Come to this lecture if you want to learn how to view all these events, as well as summer mainstays like the glorious constellations of Cygnus and Sagittarius. The lecture will be offered both in-person and over Zoom. Weather permitting, the in-person event will be followed by stargazing outside.
Co-sponsored by SOFO and Hamptons Observatory.
Program Presenter: NASA Solar System Ambassador & Hamptons Observatory’s Senior Educator, William Francis Taylor.
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+.

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Meet the Martins−Purple Martin Life Cycle, Eggs & Hatching Chicks
2024-06-29 10:30 | SOFO
Join us for an exceptional opportunity to see just-hatched Purple Martin nestlings. In this program with John Shemilt—who is the SOFO Purple Martin Steward and has been fascinated by purple martins since the age of 3—you’ll go out into the field behind SOFO to see the colony of man-made gourds that house SOFO’s newest population of purple martins. You’ll help John lower the gourds and you’ll be able to see the newly laid eggs and the just-hatched nestlings. After this rare experience, you can help John collect the data on this newest brood of SOFO purple martins.
Program and Workshop Presenter: SOFO Purple Martin Steward
This program is for all ages.
For non-members, there is a $15 fee for adults and a $10 fee for children for this program. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Young Environmentalists Society (YES!) Meeting
2024-06-29 10:30 | SOFO
The mission of SOFO’s Young Environmentalists Society, known as YES!, for ages 10 to 16, is to engage young minds in developing a fuller awareness and understanding of the current state of our environment. The group works together and, through experience-based learning, place-based learning, critical thinking processes, and local activism, develops strategies for individuals and the community that are designed to shape how we live on this planet now and in the future. The Club meets on the last Saturday of each month, from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM.
Club Leader: Mare Dianora, an educator and the mother of two young sons, is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice involves building community and exploring connections to home and place.
This program is for ages 10-16.
This is a free program, thanks to the generosity of a foundation that prefers to remain anonymous. Please contact SOFO at (631) 537-9735 or info@sofo.org for up-to-the-minute information.

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Storytime & Meet the Animals: Hermit Crabs
2024-06-30 10:30 | SOFO
Long Island’s bays and ocean are home to some amazing animals, few more fun to find than hermit crabs. Join us for a drop-in story about a hermit crab’s wanderings and meet some of the animals from the story in our marine touch tank.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Specialist
This program is for families with children ages 3-7.
For non-members, there is a $15 fee for adults and a $10 fee for children for this program. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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MUSEUM CLOSED: Maintenance
2024-07-02

YES! Presents: Watch Our Garden Grow
2024-07-06 10:00 | SOFO
Join us for farming and fun in our YES! garden at the museum. Come see the progress from our first session and participate in some fun new projects!
Club Leader: Mare Dianora, Young Environmentalists Society (YES!) Director
This FREE program is for children ages 9 and under. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Salamander Tracking Using Radio Telemetry
2024-07-06 10:30 | SOFO
Join SOFO’s Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Jake for an update on our Eastern Tiger Salamander Tracking Study. This program will include an update on the data collected during our first field season, as well as a radio telemetry demonstration. After a short lecture, participants will have the opportunity to get hands-on with our radio telemetry equipment, learning how this technique is used in the field.
Program Leader: Jake Kushner, SOFO Reptile & Amphibian Specialist
This program is for adults, teens, and children ages 8+.
For non-members, there is a $15 fee for adults and a $10 fee for children for this program. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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YES! Presents: Flexibility and Balance, Wellness Sundays
2024-07-07 10:30 | SOFO
Join Dina Khairy for a class in flexibility, balance, strength and overall wellness! Please bring a yoga mat, water, and wear comfortable shoes. Limited enrollment.

Program Leader: Dina Khairy, Yoga Studio Owner
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Feeding Time at the Museum
2024-07-07 11:00 | SOFO
Get ready for a behind-the-scenes tour at SOFO. Becca will give you a chance to see how we prepare the food for our animals to eat; then you’ll get up close and personal with the animals as they are fed. We’ll investigate food webs and the differences between carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores.
Program Leader: Rebecca Rogers, SOFO Environmental Educator
This program is for children ages 3-5.
For non-members, there is a $10 fee for children for this program. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Pop-up Pond Life Exhibit
2024-07-07 13:00 - 15:30 | SOFO
The ponds in Vineyard field are an important habitat for turtles, frogs, birds, and especially the Eastern Tiger Salamander. But none of these animals would be able to survive without the tiny life found in the water and in the mud. We will have tanks, trays, magnifiers, and microscopes set out on tables on our bottom deck to help us discover the secret life in our ponds. Join us on the first Sunday of the month, April through October.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oaks, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Education Specialist
This FREE program is for all ages. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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MUSEUM CLOSED: Private Event (2:30 pm - 4 pm)
2024-07-11 14:30 - 16:00

MUSEUM CLOSED ALL DAY FOR GALA PREPARATION
2024-07-12

MUSEUM CLOSED ALL DAY FOR GALA
2024-07-13

SOFO'S 35TH ANNUAL SUMMER GALA
2024-07-13 17:30 - 22:00

SOFO’s East End Outdoor Nature Education with Crystal at Hallock State Park, Riverhead
2024-07-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Riverhead
SOFO is offering a monthly program which will take place on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and following Saturday at 1 pm for children ages 3 to 7 years and is geared toward homeschooling families. Programs will have a variety of activities to strengthen language development, literacy, math, and science and will take place at various locations on Eastern Long Island.
We will continue our adventures on Wednesday July 17, 2024, exploring the forest, dunes, and sound shore at Hallock State Park Preserve with some stories, simple nature journals, and worksheets to take home. Crystal Possehl-Oakes, the program leader, has worked as an environmental educator at SOFO since 2005 and part-time since 2019 after her son Wyatt was born. Wyatt and I look forward to meeting you and learning with you!
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Specialist
This program is for families with children ages 3-7.
There is a $10 per child admission/material fee, which includes a participating adult. This program fee will also provide non-members with free admission to the museum on a day of their choice. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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