Events

Nature on Tap features adults-only access to the Nature Museum, including the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven and our special temporary exhibits. Highlights include a trivia game testing your knowledge with nature and science themed questions. The winning trivia team will receive the coveted Golden Cockroach trophy.

Cost: Free/member, $10/non-member.

Admission includes access to all exhibits, crafty projects and participation in the trivia challenge. Cash bar available.

The 24^th annual homage to Evanston’s glorious gardens will take place Sunday, June 30^th, 12 noon to 5 pm, and includes one public and nine private gardens, chosen for their unique design and horticultural excellence.  Ranging in size from over an acre on the lake to charming postage stamp, everyone should find inspiration in abundance.  As gardens are all around Evanston, transportation is required.

Featured this year:

• A vast lakeside treasure, owner designed, with multiple ponds, fountains, beach house with outdoor kitchen, antique Evanston street lights, magnificent plantings and incomparable views.
• Elegant townhouse gardens designed to flow together in a peaceful wooded setting, spotlighting rare specimen evergreens.
• Exotic plantings dotted with fun garden art.
• A perennial gem, with stained glass windows, white border, lush shade beds and an alley vegetable patch.
• Two creative and colorful small space gardens.
• A Japanese-inspired Zen garden with hand-cut stonework and lush plantings surrounding a tranquil koi pond.
• Evanston’s magnificent public rose garden, complete with a taste of rose hip tea.
• In honor of Evanston’s 150^th  birthday, one of Evanston’s wonderful, majestic trees that was here when it all began.

Advance purchase tickets available starting May 28 at:

• Natural Things Flowers, 2904 Central Street, 847-869-2822
• Saville Flowers, 1712 Sherman Avenue, 847-864-0632
• Bloom 3, 1503 Chicago Avenue, 847-424-0003
• Windy City Garden Center, 2000 Green Bay Rd, 847-733-1942
• MilleFiori! 1943 Central Street, 847-570-0300
• Chalet Nursery, 3132 Lake Avenue, Wilmette, 847-920-2800
• Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd, 847-448-8148

Cash and checks only at above locations.

• Tickets:
  • EEA & active KEB member prices:
    • Advance purchase: $15
    • Day of Walk: $20
  • Non-members prices:
    • Advance purchase: $20
    • Day of Walk: $25
  • Advance Sales Locations (shown at right)
  • Online ticket sales available from this page starting May 15

• Slide show from past Garden Walks

• Garden Walk Committee

• Contact us at: gardenwalk@evanstonenvironment.org

More information at www.evanstonenvironment.org/Garden_Walk

Following Yogi's advice, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois Alan Nathan will use high-speed video clips to highlight some of the interesting physics underlying the game of baseball.  The talk will focus on the subtleties of the baseball-bat collision, the intricacies of the flight of a baseball, and many other things. I will investigate some very practical questions and show how a  physicist goes about trying to answer these question. Some examples:

• What is the"sweet spot" of a bat?
• How does the batter's grip affect the batted ball?
• Why does aluminum outperform wood?
• What determines how far a fly ball travels?
• How much does a curve ball break?
• What's the deal with the knuckleball?

Dr. Nathan's talk should have something for everybody, whether your interest is baseball, physics, or the connection between them.

4:00pm to 4:30pm: Field Visit - dugouts and warning track

4:30pm to 6:00pm: Magellan Scout Lounge Reception

6:00pm to 7:30pm: The Physics of Baseball presentation

Seats for this program are limited.

RSVP Required - $20 for C2ST members / $25 for non-members