Massachusetts Butterfly Club - Spring Meeting - 4/11 - Rick Cech
Steve Mirick
Join us for the Spring l Meeting of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club!
Saturday, APRIL 11, 2026 4:30 pm – 7 pm
MAS Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester and via Zoom
4:30 PM - POTLUCK SUPPER - bring a favorite dish/dessert to share
5:15 PM - Business Meeting
6 PM – Rick Cech, guest speaker
Our guest speaker Rick Cech will present The History of Natural History: The Stream We Swim In.
Older
than science! More
powerful than a scholastic allegory! Able to leap broad
cultural shifts in a
single bound! It's natural history, an oral folk tradition,
begun in the
Renaissance, whose group values have persisted through time
little changed, sustained
by direct community mentoring and participation. Often passed
off as a benign
distraction -- or as an effete pastime of aristocrats --
nature study is in
fact a rigorous avocation that has played a significant role
in shaping our
modern understanding of the world. Come reflect on our
collective involvement
in this engaging pursuit, now playing in its mid-sixth century
at an open space
near you.
Rick
Cech is an active field naturalist, author
and photographer. He is an affiliate curator at Yale
Peabody Museum of Natural
History in Entomology and past president of the Linnaean
Society of New York.
Among other publications, he is the author and
photographer of Butterflies
of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide (Princeton,
2005). He has taught
butterfly identification and nature photography at the New
York Botanical
Garden, and given programs on varied topics at numerous
nature associations. He
co-authored the National Audubon Society Regional Guide to
Florida and
introductory chapters of the Sibley Guide to Bird Life
& Behavior, and
produced text and photographs for a series of regional
introductory guides to
butterflies. Rick's photography has been widely published
in books, articles,
photo exhibits, and museum displays (including at the
American Museum of
Natural History and Bronx Zoo). He has led nature trips
since the early 1980s.
HATS
AND TEES - Our
tees and hats will be
for sale at the meeting! Hats are $20, tees are
$25. Images are on our website www.massbutterflies.org
. Cash or check
only.
MEMBERS’ SLIDE
SHOW -
Show up to 10 images that
represent highlights from the field
during 2025.
POTLUCK -
Support our efforts to reduce waste – bring a place setting
for your meal.
ZOOM - Register in order to receive the Zoom meeting
link: https://bit.ly/4bJUyLA
See www.massbutterflies.org for additional details. Guests welcome!