It’s a rainy afternoon in early summer on Catoctin Mountain. The curvy road to ThorpeWood takes you to an elevation above 1500 feet. There are no city sounds up here, only the sound of the rain hitting the leaves and the trickling spring of Bussard Branch. A rainy day on the mountain is a pleasure. Read More »
Mark your calendars….Saturday, April 9th for a Ruut concert at the ThorpeWood lodge! It has been a few years since Ruut has shared her music with us and she is so excited to be coming back to the Mountain! Her new record will be done at the end of January, so we will do a Read More »
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In today’s Frederick News Post, you can read a wonderful article about how Frederick county is involved in the drive to bring back the American Chestnut. ThorpeWood is mentioned in the article which discusses the plight of the Chestnut and the efforts to bring it back. In 1997, ThorpeWood established a 374-tree orchard to help Read More »
It’s Valentine’s Day – Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! – and our thoughts naturally turn to love. Of course, here at ThorpeWood, our thoughts turn to you, our friends and supporters, and we enjoy having a day to take the opportunity to tell you how much we appreciate you and to share our thanks. Our thoughts Read More »
With this blog, we like to give you a more complete sense of ThorpeWood – the many ways that you can be involved with ThorpeWood, and a “behind the scenes” look into the inner workings of a nature preserve of this size. Today we thought we would share with you some details of our recent Read More »
A few updates and reminders for you, friends. Our Barn Dance is this Friday, October 11th. Now, we are going to be honest with you all – ticket sales have not been as we had hoped, and we are seriously considering canceling the event. Please help us out here and buy some tickets to this Read More »
Well friends, it is almost upon us. October 11th that is, which is known around ThorpeWood as Barn Dance day! We are so excited to welcome you all to our beautifully decorated Homestead Bank Barn to dance the night away and enjoy the fellowship of time spent with members of your community. In addition to Read More »
For more information, please contact Kaili van Waveren, Executive Director
301.271.2823 • [email protected]
