Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa
Every Wednesday on Classical IPR, Coggin Heeringa takes us into the great outdoors. She is the program director and naturalist at Crossroads at Big Creek Learning Center/Nature Preserve in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. And she's taught environmental studies at the Interlochen Arts Camp since 1971.
Latest Episodes
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Ash Wednesday reminds us that we are part of a vast, recycling masterpiece — to "remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." -
Sandhill crane pairs don’t stop dancing after bonding. They continue to dance together throughout their relationship, again and again. -
Snow glows not because it shines, but because it gathers the light and reflects it. -
Ice skaters gliding with the right balance of speed and surface is a perfect metaphor for motion without resistance. -
For climate scientists, these artworks from the Golden Age of Dutch Painting function as visual data sources of sustained climatic conditions rather than isolated events. -
Howard Hanson’s First Symphony is known as the “Nordic” for it evokes the sounds and feeling of the cold and winds of Scandinavia. -
The biblical account of Epiphany never mentions kings. It’s far more likely the Magi were astrologers. These scholars were forerunners of astronomers and mathematicians. -
Coggin wonders: What if "five golden rings" refers to roasted ring-necked pheasants? -
The morning star is striking... but it's not a star. It's the planet Venus. -
What does a sudden freeze mean for our stately pines?
