Grey Towers walks, lecture, highlight history

MILFORD, PA — Two public walks and a free lecture this June at Grey Towers National Historic Site will focus on history and the architecture of the 1886-French chateauesque mansion.

The first one, scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at 1:30 p.m., is the Pinchot Timeline Trail Walk, a walk through time on a gently sloping trail that follows the history of the Pinchot family from their arrival in Milford in the 1820s to 1963, when the family donated Grey Towers to the American public.

The second walk will be an architecture tour on Saturday, June 27. It will focus on the unique architectural details of the mansion, built by James Pinchot in 1886.

Regular tour fees apply for the walks.

The lecture, at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 20, will bring listeners westward along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Historian Peter Osborne recently retraced the travels of Lewis and Clark, and will present a free program that illustrates the locations through which the trail brought him. Many of those areas include the National Forests that Gifford Pinchot and President Theodore Roosevelt formed in the early 1900s.

The lecture is one of several free programs offered to the public by the Grey Towers Heritage Association and the U.S. Forest Service program.

For more information visit fs.fed.us/gt or call 570-296-9630.