About the Rey Center
The Rey Center honors the legacy of Margret and H.A. Rey, children's book author and illustrator of Curious George, Whiteblack the Penguin, and The Stars: A New Way to See Them. Located in Waterville Valley, NH., the center offers activities that nurture the mind, body, and spirit, and that encourage fellowship, community service and environmental stewardship.
"Rey's book The Stars: A New Way to See Them is superb; I wish that I had seen it as child. The book illustrates the arbitrariness of traditional constellation stories, and, further, that many stories are consistent with the stars that we happen to see from Earth."
—Edward Tufte
The Rey Center
Education in the arts and sciences is a major initiative of the Rey Center and will be an even stronger part in the future Rey center.
Along with building a new campus to better house all of their sponsored activites, current Rey Center initiatives supported by NH Space Grant Consortium include:
• Establishing an automated weather station atop Mt. Tecumseh. That weather station will eventually be online and will figure into their new campus construction. Real-time weather data will be displayed at the Rey Center and at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, NH. 
• Offering a local organic gardening resource for the greater Waterville Valley community: supplying three local restaurants and local farmstands with fresh organically-grown vegetables; offering small garden plots for those who want to do their own gardening but don’t have the time or the land to invest in a full-scale garden.
• Fostering stewardship of the Sandwich, Squam and Ossipee mountain ranges in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. That stewardship includes environmental monitoring of the Sandwich Range and the greater White Mountains and educational offerings on the mountain ecology, hiking, conservation.
This summer's Rey Center events include: hiking, birdwatching, alpine ecology lecture series, trailwork days, mountain climate and astronomy groups, Papermill Theatre events and Waterville Valley Music Center Concerts.
Temporarily housed in Waterville Valley's "Town Square, the Rey Center will soon have a new and permanent home. That new campus will include an earth and sky observatory, a visual and performing arts center, a meeting house, an outdoor theater, and a village green with access to walking and biking trails in the White Mountain National Forest. The campus will be a model for energy conservation and technologies for a sustainable future.