Free and Open to the Public!
Location:  Madeline Island Museum

A shimmering web of relationships connects everything.  Through stories of scientists studying hungry plants, wandering warblers, and ghost pipe’s surprising value, you’ll find that all Beings are endlessly connected in life and beyond death.

Emily Stone

Speaker:  Emily Stone is a naturalist by birth, training, profession and passion.  She holds degrees in outdoor education, geology and field master naturalist. She is director of Cable Natural History Museum.

Emily Stone teaches kids of all ages about nature in beautiful places. She creates the Cable Museum’s program schedule, oversees school field trips and MuseumMobile visits, and designs Museum exhibits. Emily is also an award-winning writer who pens a Natural Connections column for more than 15 local newspapers. She has compiled the best of those articles into three Natural Connections books. The second of those books Natural Connections 2: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, won second place in the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2020 Excellence in Craft Contest. Emily’s most recent book published in 2025 is Natural Connections 3: A Web Endlessly Woven.

Emily loves to cross country ski, mountain bike, garden, and paddle (especially in the Boundary Waters).

She was drawn to this area by the unique opportunities presented by Northland College in Ashland, WI, where she majored in Outdoor Education-Natural History with a minor in Geology. Emily then traveled around the country to naturalist jobs in Canyonlands National Park, Acadia National Park, California, Minnesota, and even a month of wolf-watching in Yellowstone National Park. She earned her Field Naturalist Masters from the University of Vermont. Emily has been with the Museum since 2011.

Natural Connections books can be purchased from local booksellers and from the Cable Natural History Museum’s website.