https://www.celebratethebloom.com/about daily 0.75 2022-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/3f77fcb9-a5ff-4f21-b227-36da871915b2/DSCN7479.JPG About - Center Manager Wil Taylor leads a hike Celebrate the Bloom! is a free annual event held at Jennings Environmental Education Center on the last Saturday in July. Celebrating the state’s only prairie (and the eastern-most prairie in the US), the festival includes nature explorations (i.e. bird, butterfly and wildflower walks), engaging demonstrations, local artisans and food, and musical guests. The event is produced in cooperation with 3MJC (the friends group and funding partner of Jennings). Music is presented by Lonesome No More Productions/Dennis McCurdy. Jennings Environmental Education Center is one of several Pennsylvania state parks specifically dedicated to provide environmental education and interpretation to the community. A variety of programs are available for all ages. One of the park’s main features, the 20-acre prairie ecosystem, is home to distinctive native prairie plants and the endangered massasauga rattlesnake. The most noteworthy and spectacular prairie flower is the blazing star. Jennings was the first reserve established in Pennsylvania to protect an individual plant species and remains the only public and protected prairie in the Commonwealth. Jennings is located near Slippery Rock, PA, just over 1 hour from Pittsburgh, Erie, and Youngstown. https://www.celebratethebloom.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/95dd0a22-8802-4e9c-820f-146caae52e6e/Celebrate+%283%29.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/a3422ac6-d433-445d-a397-740fb23da130/KFG+logo+with+website.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/7020814e-a851-4642-a1d2-d1a165499b36/experience+butler.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/dde7a463-7030-47fc-948e-3f6759b2e83f/ernst+seeds.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/9c193006-4adc-4fd1-a1e2-df890b448b7b/ZelienopleRotaryLogo_EN21_og.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/0c4de682-e402-4b4d-9e30-101c5da8e216/304813928_1066080980837445_518334605008702782_n.png https://www.celebratethebloom.com/music daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/3d4e0dc4-7200-4451-9ba3-7830187b7b16/boom.jpg Music - 11:00 - 12:15 Boom Rockets Pittsburgh area rockabilly/surf trio: Jeff Scheller, upright bass/vocals; Greg Brozak, guitar/vocals; Dave Resto, drums. 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When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/e2a35f51-6453-465f-9c12-8c13bac6fcae/max.png Music - 2:00 - 3:15 pm Max Schang Trio of Blues Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/0630616e-404b-46f8-8fa8-796ac3e6f3b7/jennie+kay.png Music - 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm Singer-songwriters “in the round” including Jennie Kay Snyder, Bruce Hoffman, and Dennis McCurdy Originally from the Allegheny Forest, Jennie Kay Snyder is a veteran of the LA and Austin music scenes. Her performance style exuberant and soulful, and her voice has drawn comparisons to Emmylou Harris, Julie Miller and Iris Dement. The songwriter formerly known as Bruce Hoffman has reinvented himself and is now known as Cool Papa Boo. No matter what you call him, his songs are smart, quirky and literate — sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes both at the same time, and always real. 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Plus: Meet the goats! 1:00 pm Wildflowers of the Prairie with Lindsey Bocian, Botanist Lindsey Bocian has been working as a botanist since 2011 for various organizations including the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the National Park Service and currently works as an environmental consultant conducting Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Plant surveys. 2:00 pm Baaaack to Basics on the Prairie with Wil Taylor, Jennings Center Manager and Madeline Boser, Jennings Intern and Goat Tender 3:00 pm Prairie Pollinators and Other Insects with Dr. Ainsley Seago and Dr. Kevin Keegan Dr. Ainsley Seago is the curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She also teaches courses on insect biomechanics and design at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on beetle taxonomy and the evolution of insect iridescence. She loves fungus beetles most of all. Dr. Kevin Keegan is a collection manager in the Section of Invertebrate Zoology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He researches moths and butterflies, focusing on natural history and systematics. His main goals are discovering the unknown caterpillars of known moths, describing new species and other taxa, and using DNA to build evolutionary trees with which to determine the proper taxonomic placement of species. His favorite moths are the seedcoppers (Noctuidae, Stiriinae) of which there are two species in the Pittsburgh region, but the group's center of diversity in the deserts of North America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62867bc8ac2632731496c6ae/a3cd942a-24bb-488f-9dc3-501bb40d5a63/Foltz+School_Last+Day+of+School001.jpg Activities - Foltz School Open! 9 am - 5:00 pm A unique opportunity for individuals of all ages to experience a piece of history and gain insight into what life was like for students attending a one-room school in the past. 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