Maplewood in the Ice Age
Apr 14, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Durand-Hedden House & Garden, 523 Ridgewood Rd, Maplewood, NJ
Join Durand-Hedden House & Garden and our guest lecturer Dr. Gregory Pope for an afternoon contemplating what our corner of New Jersey looked like 20,000 years ago, in the era of the Late Pleistocene glaciers. Picture First Mountain covered with hundreds of feet of ice, with debris from the glacier blocking the ancient Passaic River from flowing through Hobart Gap, and imagine now-extinct large mammals wandering through South Mountain. We’ll seek to understand past climates and climate change to appreciate our current environment and modern human impacts.
Dr. Pope is professor in the Earth and Environmental Studies Department at Montclair State University