Virtual Annual Gathering on Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Five Rivers had almost 50 attendees for our 2020 Annual Gathering. This year we held our annual event via Zoom, and we began the evening with a lively Zoom happy hour with many friends and members.
The program began with Beth McGuinn’s Executive Director report of Five Rivers’ conservation successes in 2020, culminating with Harold and Betsy Janeway’s extraordinary gift of their home and 477 acres of land in Webster and Hopkinton to Five Rivers.Our featured speaker was poet, writer, and editor Hannah Fries. Hannah is the author of the poetry collection Little Terrarium as well as the book Forest Bathing Retreat. She grew up in Bow, went to Dartmouth College, and later got an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
Her presentation illustrated how to find inspiration and refuge through forest bathing – a relaxing technique for letting the forest wash away some of the hard edges of this unusual time.
