If you follow this link to the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter you will be able to read one of four articles written by bird club historian Jane Graves this year. She has spent considerable time researching and detailing these facts so that the bird club history in Stewart Park could be well understood by us all.
http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/about-us/the-renwick-wildwood-inception-1913--1914 And as Dave Nutter has pointed out, in all of this research there is no record or evidence that at any point was a name change from Renwick Wildwood to Fuertes Sanctuary ever either proposed or approved. For insight into the bird Club's involvement with the actual Fuertes Wildlife Sanctuary which we now call the swan pen, read the first of Jane's articles, which you can link to directly from this one. People should perhaps be encouraged to begin calling the swan pen the Fuertes Sanctuary. Best Linda Orkin President, Cayuga Bird Club Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a copy of a booklet called "Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and > Plantings", published for Earth Day, 1990. > Here is what it says about that tract of land: > > "When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to > the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was > presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last > significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The > sanctuary was christened as the "Renwick Wildwood" and maintained by the > Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a > concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded > by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The > president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz > Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor." > > So it would seem that either name could be used, with "Fuertes Sanctuary" > dating from 1927. > > Diane Morton > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi all, > > Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? > Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it > was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that > naming, > > Curious about the Ithaca history. > > Meena > > > > > > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] > [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM > To: Christopher Wood > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes > > Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a > sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the > area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves > has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans > and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being > inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the > name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any > historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct > name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an > official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. > --Dave Nutter > > On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that >> opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the >> woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official >> website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the "Fuertes Bird >> Sanctuary". It describes this both in text and on the map. 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