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There’s a block party on Cape Cod, about an hour away from Foxborough, soon.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s watershed block party is the research and education facility’s biggest program, held Tuesday, Aug. 2 this year, event and volunteer coordinator Laurie Tompkins says.

“We invite all of our watershed neighbors to come and exhibit,” she says, and there are hands-on activities, as well as “free ice cream and watermelon supplied by local vendors.”

The Waquoit Bay Reserve is among 28 research and education facilities nationwide, she says.

The facility hosts a number of summer, kid friendly events, she says, including a Junior Ranger program for ages 8 and up.