On my way to the library right now to get this book. Would be nice to get the definitive answer. I am not invested in this one way or the other, just want to get it right.
Linda Orkin On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Randolph Scott Little <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton <[email protected]<http:/** >> /mc/compose?to=dianegmorton@**gmail.com<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 >> > > It was six years after his death, more specifically June 1933, that the > sanctuary was renamed in Fuertes' honor. > And this re-naming was done by your very same Cayuga Bird Club in > conjunction with the Ithaca Rotary Club. > (See Boynton, Mary Fuertes. 1956. p.308. "Louis Agassiz Fuertes", Oxford > Univ. Press, New York.) > > Good birding, > Randolph Scott "Randy" Little > > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsWELCOME<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsRULES<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/**CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurat** > ionLeave.htm<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > > ARCHIVES: > 1) > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]/**maillist.html<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > > 2) > http://www.surfbirds.com/**birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > 3) > http://birdingonthe.net/**mailinglists/CAYU.html<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/**ebird/ <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > > -- > -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! <')_,/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
