GREENVILLE – Children and their parents had an opportunity over the weekend to learn more about forest heritage and the changing relationships that have occurred between the public and landowners.

Those lessons were provided through the Northern Forest Center’s mobile museum called the “Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest.” Officials with the center spent Thursday and Friday working with children in the Greenville schools and Saturday working with the public.

The mobile museum will visit Fort Kent on June 14-16 at Riverside Park. The staff will work with local children on Thursday and Friday and open the museum to the public on Saturday.

“It’s teaching to promote and celebrate the rich forest-based heritage that is shared across the Northern Forest,” Mike Wilson, senior program director, said Saturday. Wilson said the center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help with the program.

The focus of the Northern Forest Center’s programs is to build a sustainable economy, revitalize the region’s communities and conserve the landscape at the community, regional and national levels, according to Wilson.

To help youngsters and the public understand the significant history lesson relating to the forest, the 53-foot mobile museum features exhibits, interactive displays and photographs. Information is available on a variety of forest-related aspects such as the last log drive on the Kennebec River, land conservation and the identification of trees.

After visiting the museum, children share their favorite things about the Northern Forest and what they hoped would stay the same.

One young child left behind a note that said, “I love the woods and it is part of me and nobody can take that away.”