Tracing our Tracks
The Harris Center is the land, the plants and wildlife who live on the land, and the realized vision of a place that inspires understanding and respect for the natural world. But it is more than that. The Harris Center is also the people who have loved and nurtured this vision.
In celebration of the Harris Center’s 50 Anniversary, we’re sharing portraits of 50 people and organizations who helped make us who we are today. It’s impossible to honor everyone who is or has been an integral part of the Harris Center, but together these portraits paint a picture of who we’ve been, who we are now, and who we hope to become.
Click on each photo below to learn more about these remarkable facets of the Harris Center’s human history.
![Eleanor Briggs](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EleanorBriggs_with_anteater-300x360.jpg)
![Meade Cadot](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Meade_Cadot-300x360.jpg)
![50th Anniversary Committees](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/50th_Committees_50FacesPage_500x600-300x360.jpg)
![Wally Francis](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Francis-III-WallyJess-Bunker-2007_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![The Lawler-Sutton Family](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_0326_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Katrina Fenton](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/6-300x360.jpg)
![Steve and Tony Vinciguerra](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_2552_Tony_Steve_2013_cropped_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Educators of the Year](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/class_birding_with_Polly_GreenlawnCemetery_May2018_BenConant_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Nathanael (Sandy) Greene](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200729_111613_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![‘More Time Outside’ Educators](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sieving_for_macroinverts_April2017-300x360.jpg)
![Dave Birchenough](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Proudly-wearing-his-Building-Committee-star-Dave-Birchenough-gives-a-public-tour-of-the-new-Tarm-pellet-boiler-1_500x600_acf_cropped-e1592248074676-300x360.jpg)
![Sigmund Winiecki](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Sigmund-Winiecki_500x600_acf_cropped-1-300x360.jpg)
![Eric Masterson](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/beanie_with_Eric_Masterson_for_scale_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Wol’s Nest Alums](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/giant_bird_nest_071219_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Francie Von Mertens](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Francie-vM_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Environmental Leadership Award Winners](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ZoeWerthTrevorFaber_2020_ELAwardees_50Faces-300x360.jpg)
![Marian Baker](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Pollinator Garden Committee](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Emily-Lord_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Cindy Cadot](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Cindy-Cadot-2_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![The Swope Family](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MM2009_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Elsie van Buren](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/youth-300x360.jpg)
![Antioch University New England](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Tom-Wessels-heads-to-the-Big-Woods-11-9-19-IMG_2488-3_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Bridget and Peter Hansel](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hansels_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Janet Altobello](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Janet_Altobello_Conantcredit-300x360.jpg)
![McIntyre/Stroup Family](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_2511_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Jean Rosenthal](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JeanRosenthal_barn_013009_EricAldrich_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Jake Thomashow](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/unnamed_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Thelma Babbitt](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Babbitt_Thelma-crop_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Shuffelton-Sobe Family](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sobe-Shuffelton-White-Mountains_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Denny Wheeler](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Mt-Pisgah-3-9-13_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![David Blair](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Blair_David-color-adjust_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Sandie Phipps](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sandie_Phipps_Retouched_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Ben Hockensmith](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20191218_1205250_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Roberta Beeson](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Roberta_Beeson_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Stephen and Tricia Froling](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Frolings_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Honorable Samuel K. Lessey Jr.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GenLessey_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Brett Amy Thelen](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/bat_at_Ashuelot_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![John Kulish](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HCKulishBearTree-lighter-300x360.jpg)
![Sue Copley](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SueCopley-2_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpeg)
![Eric Aldrich](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EricAldrich_sturgeon-300x360.jpg)
![Mary Teal Garland](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/49Garland_Rev_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/960x0_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Lee Baker](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/LeeBaker_leads_the_way_Hiroshi_030119_BenConant_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![LAB GIRLS](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/talking_trees_LabGirls_April2019_BenConant_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Hunt and Sara Dowse](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_3323-copy_500x600_acf_cropped-1-300x360.jpg)
![Susie Spikol](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Susie_surrounded_by_toddlers_Babies_in_Backpacks_Sept2019_BenConant_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Laurie Bryan](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0603-300x360.jpeg)
![Roger and Ann Sweet](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Roger_Ann_Sweet-BEST_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Jeremy Wilson](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Jeremy_with_red_pine_June2018_Thelen_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
![Hannah Ellingwood](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Hannah-Ellingwood_500x600_acf_cropped-300x360.jpg)
Contact Us
For more information on the Harris Center’s 50th anniversary celebrations, please contact Lisa Murray at (603) 525-3394 or by email.