Cozumel introduces pass to eco parks

A new eco-parks pass packages some of the top attractions in Cozumel, Mexico. The $20 pass includes admission to the verdant ecological parks of Chankanaab and Punta Sur, as well as the Cozumel Museum.

The pass also offers a combined savings for admissions and activities of more than $30, including snorkel rental, diving tours and a complimentary catamaran tour. Contact: www.islacozumel.com.mx.

Museum displays Berenstain Bears art

At least four decades of children have followed the escapades of the Berenstain Bears, picking up gentle life lessons along the way. Now, a major museum is focusing on the series’ creators.

The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., is presenting “The Berenstain Bears Celebrate: The Art of Stan and Jan Berenstain” through May 26. The exhibition includes original drawings, paintings, collectibles, a book in storyboard format and a documentary on the Berenstains — the authors, not the bears. Contact: (413) 298-4100; www.nrm.org.

Purdue opens exhibit featuring Earhart items

West Lafayette, Ind. — Purdue University has opened to the public a collection of love letters, flight logs and other personal memorabilia of vanished aviator Amelia Earhart.

The items that went on display March 10 are among about 500 donated by Earhart’s family, bringing the university’s total collection to more than 5,000 items.

Sally Putnam Chapman, an Earhart biographer and granddaughter of Earhart’s husband, George Palmer Putnam, kicked off the Flight Trails exhibit with a lecture.

Chapman used much of the collection during research for a 1997 biography of Earhart.

Earhart was a women’s career counselor and visiting instructor at Purdue in 1935-37. The plane she flew on her doomed around-the-world flight in 1937 was funded, in part, by the Purdue Research Foundation.

Radio contact with the plane was lost over the South Pacific. Earhart, her navigator and the plane were never found.