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Connecticut College to sponsor Earth Day-Community Day celebration April 19

March 27, 2008

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College will host an Earth Day-Community Day celebration with a variety of events for children and adults on the college green from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 19. The rain date is April 20.

The environment-themed activities will include guided arboretum tours, storytelling, crafts, games, dancing, food, music and more.

Some of the event´s many participants will include the Connecticut College Arboretum, Sierra Club-New England Chapter, Terra Firma Farm, Girl Scouts, SolarWrights, Coast Guard Academy Sustainability Club, Mystic Paper Beasts, Fiddleheads, Shaklee Corporation, New London Public Library, Urban Eden Soap Company, Connecticut Youth Activist Network, Reforest the Tropics, artist Anne Pugsley, singer Geoff Kaufman and a number of Connecticut College student groups.

A detailed schedule of the day´s events is forthcoming.

Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 41 states, the District of Columbia and 71 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.

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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu