Bits about Brookside
Just can’t get enough Brookside? Follow along with our blog to learn everything from the best bike trail in our area to the secret recipe behind our famous Bait Sundae.
Spring 2020: The Weirdest One Ever
I have sat down to write to you a dozen times in the last few weeks, but it always ends the same. A fragmented idea, a few sentences, and then an unfinished word doc crowding up my desktop. However, that might be exactly how life [...]
It’s Time….
It's the most wonderful time of the year: holiday lights are hung, Christmas baking is in full swing and your 2020 summer reservation info is soon to hit the mailboxes (and inboxes)! In case you don't get around to reading the letter or don't have [...]
Dear Bernard
Dear Bernard, On the day you were born it was a sunny Saturday in October. Your dad spent the whole day hauling leaves. Your mom was coming off of a busy week at her Eye Clinic (Fall Frame Sale!) You weren’t supposed to come for [...]
The Five Minute Update from Brookside
Wondering what has kept us so busy over the last few months?
The Monarch Butterfly Nursery at Brookside
What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring, eco-friendly operation of hatching monarch caterpillars into monarch butterflies and letting them go into the nature that we love. We called it summer science class. [...]
Speed Zone Ahead: “Middle Fall”
It’s a weird in-between season around here. Not exactly fall because those leaves are long gone and the only color in the trees alternates between a half-dead brown and white snow, depending on the day’s high temperature. And not exactly full-blown winter because....well, basically only [...]