YES! Presents: Inner Forms, Wellness Sunday
2025-06-22 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | SOFO
Brought to you by SOFO’s Young Environmentalists Society (YES!). Please bring a yoga mat, water, and wear comfortable clothes. Limited enrollment.
Program Leader: Stephanie Joyce, visual artist and certified yoga/meditation teacher
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Ocean Trash to Art with New York Marine Rescue Center
2025-06-22 11:00 - 12:30 | SOFO
As summer approaches, the New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) and South Fork Natural History Museum are working together to support cleaning up our local beaches! Join us on June 22nd for a fun, family friendly ocean art workshop using entirely recycled materials found from local beaches!
Clean up a local beach and bring some of those materials to our workshop, where we’ll make some ocean mosaics while we learn all about plastic pollution in our oceans and how it affects our wildlife!
Registration is a $5 donation. Workshop open to all ages!
Program Leader: New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) Educator
This workshop is open to all ages, but participants under 16 MUST come with a parent or guardian. Transportation from the beach to SOFO is not included.

Register with NYMRC at https://nymarinerescue.org/events/ and click on the program listing.

Root to Rise: Outdoor Gentle Yoga with Karen Meyer
2025-06-24 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-15 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-22 15:00 - 16:00 | SOFO
Root your feet on the earth.
Lengthen your spine, open your heart, and rise to the heavens.
Allow your breath to guide you through gentle yoga movements as you connect to your body, mind, and spirit.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of yoga experience. Adults only.
$20 per class, $10 for SOFO members.
Reservations are required.
RSVP to Karen: MoonheartMeyer@gmail.com.
Classes take place on the wooden deck, protected from the elements.

MUSEUM CLOSED: Private Event (1 pm - 4 pm)
2025-06-27 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-09 13:00 - 16:00

YES! Presents: DE-MIST-IFYING the Forecast: A Long Island Weather Discussion with Islandwide Weather
2025-06-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Sag Harbor
Glen Johnson and Don Golde are two reliable “go-to” dudes known as Islandwide Weather. They know a thing or two about the weather, specifically Long Island weather. And they want you to know too! Find out what’s in store for us weather-wise this summer as we get the local forecast, hear the predictions for hurricane season, and learn how to glean insights from meteorological data in real-time. With over 80,000 local followers, the duo prides itself on being a reliable source for local weather updates and an active agent in community building. Following the discussion, have all your burning meteorological questions answered during the Q&A.
The program is a special collaboration with the South Fork Natural History Museum’s Young Environmentalists Society (YES!), The Church in Sag Harbor, and Islandwide Weather.
This FREE program is for all ages. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Meet the Martins-Adults and Hatching Chicks
2025-06-28 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 Leader: John Shemilt, 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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“Terrific Turtles” Story Time with Crystal
2025-06-29 10:30, 2025-06-29 13:30 | SOFO
The turtles are on the move in our backyards, ponds, and even in the nearby salt marshes! Join us for some fun stories to learn about our turtle neighbors and learn how to help our turtle neighbor as you meet some of SOFO’s resident turtles.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, SOFO Environmental Outdoor Education Specialist
This program is for children ages 3-7.
For non-members, this program is included in the museum admission fee. Members are free. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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MUSEUM CLOSED: Maintenance
2025-07-02

Nature Printing in the Sun!
2025-07-05 11:00 - 12:30 | SOFO
Let’s combine science and art using plant life as our inspiration to make magical sun prints. We’ll take a short nature walk to collect specimens, then bring back our findings to make images with. In this mostly outdoor workshop, participants will play and collaborate to create beautiful blue works of art. Limited enrollment. Materials fee: $10.
Workshop Leader: Andrea Cote, Artist
This program is for families with children ages 5+.
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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Cyanotype Printing with Plant Life
2025-07-05 13:00 - 14:30 | SOFO
One of the earliest forms of photography known for its distinctive deep blue tones, cyanotype uses sunlight to make print alchemy! Led by artist Andrea Cote, participants will be introduced to this unique process and explore various techniques for creating imagery using nature, drawing and collage while printing on fabric. A great class for artists of all levels wanting to experiment and expand. Limited enrollment. Materials fee $10.
Workshop Leader: Andrea Cote, Artist
This program is for adults and teens ages 16+.
For non-members, there is a $15 fee per person 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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Feeding Time at the Museum
2025-07-06 11:00 | SOFO
Get ready for a behind-the-scenes tour at SOFO. Sydney 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: Sydney Mantione, SOFO Environmental Educator
This program is for children ages 3-5.
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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Pop-Up Pond Life Exhibit
2025-07-06 13:30 - 16:00 | SOFO
Discover the amazing tiny life in a pond, an important part of the web of life that helps our friends the frogs, turtles, salamanders, and birds.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes, 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 ALL DAY FOR GALA PREPARATION
2025-07-10, 2025-07-11

Full Buck Moon Hike
2025-07-10 21:00 - 22:00 | SOFO
Join FLPG on a leisurely-paced hike through open-field trails. The July full moon is named the “Buck Moon” as it is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur.
Co-sponsored by Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt & the South Fork Natural History Museum (SOFO).
Meet at the SOFO Museum parking lot, 377 Bridgehampton Turnpike, 200 yards north of the RR tracks. To register, email: greenbeltnews@aol.com.
Hike Leader: Jean McDermott, 631-599-2391.

MUSEUM CLOSED ALL DAY FOR GALA
2025-07-12

SOFO’S 36TH ANNUAL SUMMER GALA
2025-07-12 17:30 - 22:00

Young Birders Club Meeting
2025-07-19 10:00
Birding is a great way to make new friends, learn about the environment, and get outdoors. Join our Young Birders Club! The Club meets at 10AM on the third Saturday of every month and is open to anyone ages 8 to 18 who is interested in learning about birds. Since Long Island has many great habitats that are home to a wide variety of species, we concentrate on birding in local areas.
Please bring binoculars if you have them (we will have a few pairs to lend) and a field guide to birds of the eastern United States. If you don’t have a field guide, we’ll have one here for you to use.
Club Leader: Aidan Perkins, Wildlife Biologist
This FREE program is for ages 8-18. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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East End Environment Series: Discovering Moths with John Himmelman
2025-07-19 15:30 - 16:30 | SOFO
This is the sixth lecture of our East End Environment Series!
Join SOFO for light refreshments and a lecture about moths with naturalist and author illustrator of children’s and nature books John Himmelman as he discusses the amazing beauty of these nighttime fliers, their life cycle, their importance in nature, and how just a tiny handful of the many moth species are truly pests to humans. Hear how to attract moths with lights and bait, when and where to observe them, and how best to photograph these tiny subjects.
Co-sponsored by the Hampton Library, Southhampton Dark Skies Committee, and SOFO.
This program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+.

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The first part of this program will be at 1:00–2:00 pm: Join us at the Hampton Library for a book signing and Q&A with John Himmelman, author of Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your Own Backyard and Wait Till It Gets Dark: A Kid’s Guide to Exploring the Night. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/southampton-town-dark-skies-committee-book-signing-lecture-tickets-1358940891789. Books will be available for purchase at Hampton Library.

MUSEUM CLOSED: Outreach Event (10 am - 1 pm)
2025-07-20 10:00 - 13:00

Seining with SOFO
2025-07-20 11:00 - 12:30 | East Hampton
Join SOFO staff in pulling a seine net at the shore to see what fish and crabs are making their home there! In the shallow waters of the estuary, young fish, crabs and other marine invertebrates find food and shelter until they grow large enough to move into the deeper bay.
This nursery is an important resource for fish that people like to eat and for the equally important small fish that the bigger fish need for food. We’ll learn about food webs and sieve the sandy mud to see what other invertebrates are hiding there.
Program Leader: Sydney Mantione, SOFO Environmental Educator
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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SOFO’s East End Outdoor Nature Education with Crystal at Hallock State Park, Riverhead
2025-07-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Riverhead
Join us for a beach exploration along Long Island Sound with a texture scavenger hunt, classification/graphing, and seining with net to meet our marine neighbors.
Program Leader: Crystal Possehl-Oakes 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!
There is a $10/child fee (participating adult included) 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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What Goes Buzz in the Night?
2025-07-25 20:15 - 22:15 | SOFO
Mothing or light-sheeting is an activity used by scientists studying nighttime insects to catch and identify local species. By setting up a light trap, a large light directed at a white sheet, we’ll be able to see which moths (and more!) are flying about our dark skies! Join SOFO educator Moe Kennedy and celebrate National Moth Week 2025.
Program Leader: Moe Kennedy, SOFO Environmental Educator
This program is for adults, teens, and children ages 10+.
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
2025-07-26 10:30
SOFO’s Young Environmentalists Society (YES!) is led by Mare Dianora, an interdisciplinary artist whose practice involves building community and creating connections to home and place. YES! is open to young environmentalists, aged 10-16 and Junior members ages 5-9, who want to help prevent climate change as they discuss various challenges and ideas that can impact our precious environment. The program includes guest speakers and field trips and explores topics such as climate change, aquaculture, environmental career goals, water conservation, local ecology, and more.
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 is a FREE program, thanks to the generosity of a foundation that prefers to remain anonymous. The date may change for this program. Please contact SOFO at (631) 537-9735 or info@sofo.org for up-to-the-minute information. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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Join Us for a Whale of a Time at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum
2025-07-26 10:30 - 12:00 | Amagansett
This guided tour will focus on marine mammals and maritime history of Eastern Long Island.
Co-sponsored by SOFO and the East Hampton Historical Society
Tour Leader: Stacy Myers, Education Director, East Hampton Historical Society
This FREE program is for adults, teens, and children ages 8+. Advanced reservations are required for all events.

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