Published May 05. 2017 12:17PM
Two walks are scheduled at Beltzville State Park this weekend.
A wildflower walk and talk will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Beltzville State Park Environmental Interpretive Center.Master Gardener Diane Giffels and State Park educator Cynthia Kurket will lead a talk about Pennsylvania's spring wildflowers, followed by a 1.5-mile wildflower walk with flower identification guides.Friends of Beltzville will host a Beltzville On The Move Hiking Series, beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday with "A Walk Back in Time" history hike.Participants should meet at the Christman Trailhead parking lot.Roy Christman will lead a hike on the old farmstead, pointing out artifacts remaining after 50 years. He will also open Kibler School for the hikers. He will also illustrate his talk with photos from there 50s.Christman grew up on the Christman Farm, owned and operated by his father and two uncles. The 460-acre farm was the largest farm in what is now Beltzville State Park. Christman, who received his Ph.D. in political science from Penn State, taught at San Jose State until his retirement in 2002. He and his wife Linda moved back to the old farmhouse and put the remaining 23 acres of the farm into the Pennsylvania Farmland Preservation Program.Come dressed for the weather and wear hiking shoes. Please bring drinking water. Rain cancels event.For information about the Friends of Beltzville State Park, visit
www.fobsp.org or like the group on Facebook.