Jennings Environmental Education Center, Route 528, Brady Township, will show a film on forgotten and extinct birds of North America at 7 p.m. Monday. The Moraine McConnells Mill Jennings Commission will host a program on Sam Mohawk and the Wigton Massacre at Jennings at 7 p.m. Sept. 17. Brad Pflugh, a board member of the Butler Historical Society and head of the history department at Knoch High School, will present a program about the events that led up to the massacre, manhunt and capture of Sam Mohawk, and the trial and execution. Call 724-794-6011. The program “Tag a Monarch” will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 13.

Cruises aboard Nautical Nature, an enclosed pontoon boat, include a 90-minute narrated tour of Lake Arthur, as sponsored by the Moraine Preservation Fund. Cruises begin at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets for adults are $11 online and $12 at the gate, for senior citizens, $9 and $10, and for children, $5 and $6. Children under age 2 are free, and all children younger than 12 must be supervised. Call 724-368-9185 or visit www.moraine preservationfund.org.

Moraine State Park will be the site of kayaking programs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and at 9 a.m. Sept. 23. Call 724-368-3612 to register. Demonstrations of the historic oil well will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 13 at the well along Park Road off Route 528.

McConnells Mill State Park in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County off Route 422, has the historic gristmill open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. A cooking program, “A Taste of History: Dutch Oven Cooking,” will be held from noon to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 14 and will allow people to sample Native American and pioneer food. “Hemlocks of Hell's Hollow” will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 20. The 22nd annual McConnells Mill Heritage Festival is slated for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 27 and 28.