HOWES CAVE— The Cave House Museum of Mining and Geology opens its summer series of programs with “Mind-blowing Mica” on June 8 at the historic museum, 136 Blowing Rock Road in Howes Cave.

Educator, lapidary artist and jeweler Jim Pecora from Pecora’s Mica Mine Schoolhouse in Acworth, NH will offer the program. Pecora also operates the Crystal Rock Arts gift shop and New England Mineral Museum.

The Cave House will be open that day from noon to 4 p.m. The program begins at 2.

Admission is free. Donations are appreciated.

The following program in the museum’s summer series will be July 13, when Roger Masse, professor of wildlife management at SUNY Cobleskill, presents  “Young Forest Management to Protect Declining Species.” 

The Cave House is where the remarkable story of Howe’s Cave begins. The museum is a nonprofit, NYS-chartered educational institution, that promotes an understanding of the importance that local and regional geology and mining plays in our lives.