It’s time to talk turkey. On Saturday (11/15) from 11am to 4pm, head on down the PS 15 in Red Hook (on Van Brunt between Sullivan and Wilcott) to join the Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy and associates for a fall day of learning and fun before the big Thanksgiving holiday. Dear God, did we just say Thanksgiving?

The event will be held at the new PS 15 Playground. Activities include a giant and colorful ceremonial Tipi with exhibits and presentations, that includes a small interactive Lenape wigwam, see a giant sturgeon, and other living dinosaurs of urban estuary and a dozen other exhibits exploring how our earliest settlers used it, reused it and recycled it, a presentation about the living nature of our urban estuary and urban watershed. There will also be exciting outdoor activities such as parents and children potato sack, pumpkin pie race with prize, making apple cider with a traditional apple press, a free raffle- win a Turkey [donated by Red Hook Rise] for Thanksgiving for parents and children of PS 15 …and more. In the spirit of that tradition, our tipi tells the lore of various natural resources and wildlife of NY State. From the environment, through the water column, to its surface, to the very air that we breathe, and in the soil from which we harvest.. The Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy, helps in putting a little nature back in the urban environment.

And, afterward, of course, there’s always the chance to the big blue-and-yellow box and pick up an Ektorp.
—Vaduz Uvunt