Thank you Jeff. I very much appreciate this first hand account and confirmation of what we have researched also.
Hope you can come up here and bird again sometime. You could lead a walk at Renwick in celebration of the Cayuga Bird Club's 100 years. Best, Linda Orkin On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jeff Nulle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm president of the Linnaean Society of New York, and I grew up in Ithaca > and started birding with Arthur Allen and the other Cornell bird walk > leaders in 1951 in a place that was never called anything other than > Renwick Sanctuary. > Best, > Geoffrey Nulle > > --- On *Tue, 5/14/13, Linda Orkin <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Linda Orkin <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes > To: "Diane Morton" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Meena Madhav Haribal" <[email protected]>, "CAYUGABIRDS-L" < > [email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 11:41 AM > > > 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]<http://mc/[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]<http://mc/[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]<http://mc/[email protected]>[ > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>] > on behalf of [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]>[ > [email protected] <http://mc/[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]<http://mc/[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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