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Green Oaks Facilities

Green Oaks Biological Field Station, which lies near the Spoon River in western Knox County, may be a remote, serene location, but it is equipped with plenty of facilities to accommodate visitors who are there for both research and recreation.

The newly refurbished Schurr Hall is a classroom, laboratory and residential building for students at Green Oaks. Schurr Hall comfortably accommodates 12 Knox students with its six bedrooms, library, bathrooms, lounge area and porch from which to watch the sunset. The building also features a classroom, computer room, kitchen, and laundry room, and is equipped with central heating, a telephone, mail delivery and Internet service.

Other accessible facilities at Green Oaks include:

  • Camping site, which includes a boat dock
  • Well-marked hiking trails
  • Storage barn for student projects
  • Caretaker’s home
  • Environmentally friendly composting toilet at campsite
  • The Green Oaks Term Director’s Cabin (located next to Schurr Hall)
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Music Concerts and Recitals

The Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band, Knox Wind Ensemble, and individual music students perform in concert and recital, November 13 through 17 at Knox College.

Lecture Marks 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Elisabeth Herrmann of the University of Alberta gives the 2009 Johnson Lecture, "Mapping Germany from a Cultural Perspective Twenty Years after the Fall of the Wall," November 13 at Knox College.

Japanese Club Marks Halloween with Kimodameshi

Severed heads, a ghost in the well -- the Knox College Japanese Club marks Halloween by building a "Kimodameshi," which led visitors through scenes drawn from traditional Japanese ghost stories.

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