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. Their current location is soon to be replaced with a new Earth and Sky observatory which will model sustainable building techniques.
"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
Environmental stewardship and education in the arts and sciences are major initiatives of the Rey Center and will play an even stronger role in the future Rey center.
Along with building a new campus to better house all of their sponsored activites, Rey Center initiatives supported by NH Space Grant Consortium include: 
• An Earth and Sky Observatory with environmental monitoring and astronomy programs. An automated weather station atop Mt. Tecumseh will eventually be online and will be a key element in the new campus. Real-time weather data will be displayed at the Rey Center and at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, NH.
• Their stewardship of New Hampshire's Sandwich, Squam and Ossipee
mountain ranges includes educational offerings on the mountain ecology, hiking, conservation. On "Mt. Tecumseh Overnights," hikers learn about regional vegetation and weather monitoring during an overnight stay at the Schwendi Hutte.
• The Curious Gourds Gardens, which offer a local organic gardening resource for the Waterville Valley community. They supply local restaurants with fresh organically-grown vegetables; they also offer community memberships and supply garden plots to local families.
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.