Naturalist Notebook
2025-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, 44120
Naturalist Notebook
November 16 | 1-3pm | Loganberry Books
Join Loganberry Books and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly book discussion!
A Sand County Almanac is an ecology and conservation classic published in 1949 that continues to speak to the world we are living in today. Aldo Leopold’s essays begin on his Wisconsin farm, writing about the cyclical nature of seasons month by month, followed by observations from traveling in other parts of the country, and ending with the confirmation that everything in nature is connected. In his final essays, Leopold asks us all to create what he calls a personal “land ethic”, which asks individuals to create a responsible relationship with the land we inhabit and for which he is best known. 228 pages. Books available for purchase.
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Naturalist Notebook
2026-02-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Loganberry Books, 13015 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH, 44120
Naturalist Notebook: Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
February 15, 2026 | 1-3pm | Loganberry Books
Join the Nature Center and Loganberry Books as we discuss Lauret Savoy’s award-winning memoir, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape. Lauret Savoy is a professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke and, through the lens of her own multiracial heritage, she brings together the layers of place and history that impact us all in as many ways as the rocks hidden beneath our feet.
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Naturalist Notebook: Vesper Flights
2026-05-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, 44120
Naturalist Notebook: Vesper Flights
Sunday, May 17 | 1-3 PM
Join the Nature Center and Loganberry Books to discuss Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald. Helen MacDonald, a British naturalist, poet and falconer, is best known for their memoir, H is for Hawk. Vesper Flights, written more recently, is a collection of essays on the natural world in which MacDonald shares their exceptional eye for detail and observational skills with readers. Wonderful to dip into at leisure, the essays soar from falcons to peregrines to swifts’ mysterious vesper flights. Book available at Loganberry at 10% off
Registration required. Free.
Registration link: https://givebutter.com/naturalist-notebook-vesper-flights-5-17-26

Shaker Art Circle
2026-07-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, 44120
2026 Dates at the Nature Center
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7PM
July 7 / July 21
August 4 / August 18
September 1 / September 15
The Shaker Arts Council (SHAC) is pleased to announce our continued initiative: The Shaker Art Circle, a community of artists and creatives who gather regularly to draw, sketch, and paint in inspiring locations around Shaker Heights. This welcoming group is open to artists of all experience levels — from curious beginners to seasoned professionals. Bring something you are working on or begin something new and enjoy making art with like-minded, supportive individuals in a quiet outdoor setting. Not sure if this is for you? If you have that creative drive, then it probably is! Call Sheri 216-544-7989 with additional questions.
Meet us at the outdoor Nature Center Pavilion at 5:30
Inclement Weather: The Market Hall at the Van Aken District across from Brasica.
These events are free and open to adults 18 years or older.

Naturalist Notebook: The Overstory by Richard Powers
2026-08-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio, 44120
Naturalist Notebook: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Sunday, August 16 | 1-3 PM
Join Loganberry Books and the Nature Center for our quarterly book club where we’ll be reading Richard Power’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Overstory – a passionate work of activism told as a fable with trees and humans as the main characters. The Overstory helps us understand the world and see it differently, as The Lorax did when first published over 50 years ago. Look forward to talking about both of the American classics.
Free. Registration required. Copies available at Loganberry at 10% off.
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