Director Dan Kunkle of the Lehigh Gap Nature Center gave a short introduction to Roger Latzgo of Germansville who was to perform a concert in conjunction with the annual members' picnic.

"(Member) Nancy Taras sponsored Roger Latzgo," he said."It's wonderful to be here and I'm glad to see how well the Center is doing," Latzgo said.His program would include ethnicfunk to ecofunk (ethnicity and ecology), he said.The first song would be from Slovakia - a song he learned from a mushroom hunter. It contains some Latin in the form of formal mushroom names.Throughout the program he asked questions as a means of throwing in some education - and provided tapes of his music as prizes.The first question was what language the work "ecology" comes from. It is Greek.He said the resurgence of natural habitat on the mountain is great but the next song he planned to sing was about industry. The people, many of them immigrants, worked in the zinc, steel and mining industries as a way of breaking into society.As Paul Bunyan was in the logging industry, the zinc company had Joe Magarac, an outsize hero. Latzgo said his grandfather earned $26 that was paid in gold and silver coins.He thinks Emily Dickinson's poems provide a pure nature imagery. Latzgo set "Wild Nights" to music.He found more nature imagery in "Ma Petit Prince," a French tale. A little boy from another planet is looking for a new place to live because a baobab tree spread till it took over his home planet.He picked up a bouzouki - and gave the background about it. A long time ago Baby Hercules found a large turtle shell. The tendons were stretched across the shell and it made a musical instrument.The song he played was about Paulina tomatoes and how important it is to save the heirloom seeds. His family kept the seeds, and eventually he became the caretaker.If you provide habitat for birds, you can say, "That is my bluebird." Ninety percent of Robert Frost's poems are about nature. In rap style Letzgo told of the "The Last Word of the Bluebird" before it left for migration.In the time of the Renaissance a Rabbi found a being (a robot) with the name of God on a piece of paper in its mouth. He was to protect the Jewish quarter in a Russian city. The synagogue still stands and the robot was put away until it is needed again.Hans Christian Anderson contributed a short story that Latzgo made into a song about a nightingale and a rose that fall in love. The rose grew on Homer's grave near Smyrna, a major city at the time of Anderson. The nightingale sang itself to death. A camel driver buried it in Homer's grave.Taras had an idea that resulted in a song sung to the tune of "Old Joe Clark." It was "Old Man Dan," and the chorus was, "Round and round the Lehigh Gap and in the Kittatinny Ridge where the AT (Appalachian Trail) comes down to the site of the old chain bridge."Kunkle said the song was the best award of the many the Nature Center has received.There is a pepper festival at Bowers each year. The song about that mentioned the names of many peppers but it was "'Hot Pepper Jelly' that made her day."Board of directors member Grant White sang a song from his Boy Scout days.The closing song with audience participation was "Those Were the Days."It was a program that could have gone on and on as people enjoyed it, but it came to an end as all good things must.