I decided to skip out on all modern tools for this current project. A video game I was playing at the time (Green Hell) had the protagonist making sewing needles out of Capybara bones. I figured it would be a good starting project to go full Neolithic! One of our students found a long leg bone of a deer while out on the trail. I tried to score a line around the bone with a sharp edge of rock and then snap off the end. I did not get the clean break I wanted, but I did get

Written by instructor Anna Knothe If you have never been to Lasdon Park and Arboretum in Somers, NY, I highly suggest visiting. There is so much to explore. Some of the main highlights of the park include the rare American Chestnut grove, the Memorial Garden, the Historic Tree Walk, the Veterans Memorial path (and museum), and my favorite, the Bird and Nature Sanctuary. Lasdon is fun for all ages; the park has entertained me from childhood to adulthood. Some of my earliest me