{"id":7598,"date":"2025-06-21T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crosby\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2025-06-21T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:25:04","slug":"soroptimists-celebrate-the-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crosby\/2025\/06\/21\/soroptimists-celebrate-the-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists Celebrate the Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Crosby\u2019s Soroptimists marked the Summer Solstice at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve.<\/h4>\n<p>Staff of the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (LWT) organised a special public event \u2013 many volunteers, including Soroptimists, were therefore on hand to help.<\/p>\n<p>A campfire was central to the celebrations. It gave visitors the chance to sample gooey marshmallows, hot sugared apples and roasted hazelnuts. Meanwhile the Soroptimists set up a refreshment stall \u2013 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century-style.<\/p>\n<p>There were prehistoric crafts to try \u2013 bow-drilling, for example. This involves a wooden spindle that is rotated by a string attached to a flexible bow. It\u2019s very effective \u2013 visitors easily drilled holes in seashells.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;white&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1750522931469-b9d73b38-0962-0&#8243; include=&#8221;7600,7599,7601,7606&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Willow-woven hoops decorated with common local wild flowers made fine headdresses; and there was the chance to try painting with simple pigments. LWT staff laid out a variety of prehistoric (replica) artefacts, such as fearsome barbed arrows; and these attracted a lot of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologist Ron Cowell gave a brief talk about the solstice \u2013 its astronomical significance and its importance to societies down the millennia. In Neolithic times, people built impressive monuments (such as henges) that aligned with movements of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>At Lunt there are much older traces \u2013 from the Mesolithic period \u2013 showing that people lived here over 9,000 years ago. But how they marked the solstice, we\u2019ll never know.\u00a0Soroptimist International Crosby has been in <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crosby\/our-projects\/lunt-meadows\/\">partnership with LWT<\/a> for several years on the \u2018Mesolithic and Modern Life\u2019 lottery-funded project. Members are always on hand to help.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the event, Soroptimist Jill Boggan played her Celtic harp. 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