Joe Hannibal of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History will lead us on this walk, examining the marble and other rocks and minerals that make up the monuments and buildings in the southern part of the Cemetery. The trip will include a visit to the old bluestone quarry and the Garfield Monument.

Gold prospecting in Ohio is more popular than ever with recent high gold prices. The lure is finding shiny gold dust and flecks. We will visit a real gold claim in Richland County, Ohio, and work a stream using pans just like the prospectors. Guaranteed wet and muddy conditions, all equipment is provided and any gold that you find is yours to keep. Last year everyone on this trip found gold; all were enriched but not rich from the experience. Minimum age 9.

Join us for a fun, family-friendly evening with Dr. Lisa Rainsong, a music theory faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music, who also does field recordings and surveys of crickets and katydids — the "singing insects." We will become expert listeners as we explore the choruses of Ohio's night shift. We will meet and listen at a Museum property near Chardon called Soubusta Sugarbush.

Beat the heat this Aug and join the Museum for a real water quality monitoring project. Every year we collect benthic macroinvertebrate stream quality data from the Chagrin and Grand rivers and submit it to the state of Ohio's scenic rivers program. This time you get to help! Bring the family out for an afternoon to do real science, get wet, and help us protect Ohio's water systems. Minimum age 8.

Joe Hannibal of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History will lead us on this walk, examining the marble and other rocks and minerals that make up the monuments and buildings in the northern part of the Cemetery. The trip will include a visit to the Wade Chapel, dam, gravesites of two famous Cleveland geologists, and the Garfield Monument.