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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Happiness is riding in a canoe with your Mom at Ijams




Ijams provides a safe place for kids to explore the wonder of nature. Just ask Joseph! Last Saturday he and his Mom joined our canoe exploration of Mead's Quarry Lake.

Craspedacusta sowerbyi
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We were searching for freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbyi), which we didn't find, but they are tricky to locate, as ephemeral a creature as one can imagine living at Ijams: small, transparent, active, living down in the water.

A follow-up e-mail from his Mom revealed the young adventurer didn't mind. "Joseph told me this evening that his happiest moment of the day was being out in the canoe!"

Ijams has been providing these kinds of outdoor adventures for young people for at least 90 years, since the days H.P. and Alice Ijams and their four daughters lived here.

Ijams daughters: Jo, Martha, Mary and Elizabeth in a canoe at Homesite Pond, 1923


- Photo and text by Stephen Lyn Bales  
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