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On April 24, 2010, we hosted three regional events to attract new people to Family Nature Summits. That same weekend, volunteers had tables at Eastern Mountain Sport stores where they handed out information. Here's the story from one event.

Mid-Atlantic Summiteers Celebrate 40th Anniversaries of Earth Day and the Family Nature Summit

by Martin Harrell

Fifteen Summiteers and friends celebrated the 40th anniversaries of Earth Day and the NWF’s founding of Family Summits in 1970 by hiking eight miles on April 23 along the Delaware and Raritan Canal in New Jersey adjacent to the Delaware River.

Summit veterans living from metropolitan Washington, D.C., to north Jersey met in Stockton, N.J., and hiked four miles in the morning of a gorgeous sunny day to Lambertville, N. J. to take in the town’s annual Shadfest, a celebration of the fish now making a comeback in the Delaware River thanks to four decades of environmental activism and government regulation.  Most then hiked back in the afternoon, although a few, groaning under the weight of Festival purchases, used motorized transport.  Plans to meet the walking group halfway became diverted by the lure of cold beer and a shady picnic table where those supporting the local economy loudly applauded the thirsty hikers as they reached the end of the day’s walk.

We are now fit and ready for Lake Tahoe!!