{"id":9128,"date":"2011-05-12T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2011-05-12T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:51:06","slug":"reptilian-extravaganza-at-lakeville-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9128","title":{"rendered":"Reptilian Extravaganza at Lakeville Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Speaks-Lakeville-Historical-Society.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9130\" title=\"Turtle Speaks Lakeville Historical Society 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Speaks-Lakeville-Historical-Society-480.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle Speaks Lakeville Historical Society 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Speaks-Lakeville-Historical-Society-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Speaks-Lakeville-Historical-Society-480-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Turtle Invites <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Through the magic of digital media, Turtle Journal&#8217;s Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse will transform the Lakeville United Church of Christ into the wild world of turtles for kids from four to 104 to experience the excitment of adventure and discovery.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll cast away the everyday world, climb inside a dazzling sound and light show, and unleash\u00c2\u00a0our inner explorer.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll watch as turtles wake from winter slumber, bask in bright spring sunshine and turn their thoughts to creating the next generation of reptiles.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll hide in camouflage as females trek across impossible obstacles to reach nesting sites and deposit eggs representing the future of threatened turtles in Massachusetts.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll fast forward as hatchling emerge from the sand to take their first breath of live as they scramble for safety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Journal-Team-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9135\" title=\"Turtle Journal Team 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Journal-Team-480.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle Journal Team 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Journal-Team-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtle-Journal-Team-480-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse in the Field<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll uncover secrets about what makes these shelled critters such a wonderful bellwether species of our natural world.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtles have survived the dinosaurs, survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, survived ice ages and intervening global warming, out-lived saber tooth tigers and mammoths \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and have crawled the earth for 300 million years.\u00c2\u00a0 As their populations tumble, so goes the quality of the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 As turtles thrive, we see positive advances in the richness of our own lives, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtles-of-Massachusetts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9138\" title=\"Turtles of Massachusetts 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtles-of-Massachusetts-480.jpg\" alt=\"Turtles of Massachusetts 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtles-of-Massachusetts-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Turtles-of-Massachusetts-480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Turtles of Massachusetts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Lakeville Historical Society, 7 pm on May 25th, Lakeville United Church of Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turtle Invites Through the magic of digital media, Turtle Journal&#8217;s Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse will transform the Lakeville United Church of Christ into the wild world of turtles for kids from four to 104 to 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