A Play ==> "BOOMTOWN" coming to Heritage Village Stage
November 16, Saturday
7 pm on the Village Stage
Adults $20 - Children $10
Click to go to our Press Release page for more information
Also
Click to go to our event page for more information
or
www.texascomedies.com/shows/boomtown to read about the performers and Presenter.
Pickin' at the Pickett House
October 25th
5 pm to 7 pm
Music and fish instead of chicken.
Kids Winter Festival
Saturday, December 14, 2024
6 pm til 8 pm
Pictures with Santa, Music, Movie
RSVP
Call Heritage Village at 409-283-2272
Special Exhibit Room
Photo collection by Tracee Boucher
9am through 3pm
Location: off the Museum Store to the left of the exit door.
FREE admission
Be sure to vote for your favorite picture!
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Big Woods Nature Trail
Photo-of-the-Month
For September is by
Ruth Recia, Houston
This photo submitted by Ruth Recio was selected by the Tyler County Art League judge as the Big Woods Nature Trail Photo-of-the-Month for September. Ruth, from Houston, enjoyed the trail across the parking lot from the Pickett House Restaurant in Woodville.
The photo is an optical illusion. The green leaf canopy above the dead tree trunk (snag) is provided by neighboring trees. Last year, students hiking the Nature Trail nicknamed this trunk "The Woodpecker Tree."
Dead tree trunks, or snags, are valuable to a wide variety of wildlife, and in particular woodpeckers. Woodpeckers use snags for homes, drumming, nesting, roosting and feedings. Woodpeckers hammer their bills against the resonating surface of dead tree trunks to make a loud drumming sound; this is their courtship and territorial "song". Though they have powerful bills, woodpeckers are only able to excavate nests in trees with soft decaying centers.
Many insects live and reproduce in decaying wood, providing food for woodpeckers. The old woodpecker holes provide homes for swallows, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, owls and other birds.
Unfortunately, this snag broke in half and fell a few days after Ruth took her photo. There are numerous other photo opportunities along the Big Woods Nature Trail waiting for you.
The Photo-of-the-Month contest details are on the kiosk.
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