Take a cruise with the LSPA education staff on gorgeous Lake Sunapee, or as the Abenaki named, Seninebi, meaning rock or mountain water. While enjoying the natural beauty of Lake Sunapee, you will learn about the lake’s origins and the plants and animals that now call the watershed home. Specimens and interactive activities will enhance your experience. This program is designed for adults and families with older children.

Program Fee: $30 for adults, $15 for under 18

Registration for this program will be coming soon!

Come and celebrate “Love Your Lake Day” with LSPA at The Center for Lake Studies. There will be exciting exhibits, face painting, games, crafts for the kids, and a live animals presentation by The Squam Lake Science Center. Join us as we celebrate our love and appreciation for the incredible gifts Lake Sunapee shares with us all year long.

Antique boats will be on display in Sunapee Harbor throughout the morning, followed by the parade with the route starting in Gardner Bay. The boats will head south past Dewey Beach, enter Sunapee Harbor, then travel along the shore line toward Birch Point, passing Fishers Bay and Oakledge, the State Beach and ending in Newbury Harbor.

Mary Kronenwetter will present the history and legacy of “Corbin’s Animal Garden.”

In the late 1800s, the banking, railroad, and real estate mogul Austin Corbin returned to his hometown in Newport, New Hampshire. He built a grand estate and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create an 22,000 acre wildlife game preserve stocked with boar, bison, bighorn sheep, antelope, elk, Chinese pheasant, and other imported animals. The grounds eventually became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted illustrious guests including Theodore Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joe Dimaggio, Rudyard Kipling, and Augustus Saint Gaudens. This illustrated slideshow features archival images and a discussion of the complicated history and legacy of New Hampshire’s own American Gilded Age robber baron. The talk will also highlight the important legacy of the role the Corbin family and park naturalist Ernest Baynes played in the saving of the American bison from extinction.

In partnership with the Sunapee Historical Society
Supported by NH Humanities

Join LSPA for an excursion under the light of the full moon.

Refreshments will be served during this annual fundraiser for LSPA’s education programs.

Reservations for this program will be coming soon.