A final word on this for now, and then I think we should lay this topic to rest as we wait for some in progress research as to when the city erroneously changed Renwick Wildwood to Fuertes.
Randy's lead sounded promising but I now have that book in hand and here I quote: "The Louis Agassiz Fuertes Wildlife Sanctuary at Stewart Park, just south of Cayuga Lake, was a project of the Cayuga Bird Club and the Ithaca Rotary Club, made ready for the birds and the public in June, 1933" This "wildlife sanctuary" is the area that we now all call the swan pen. That is where the bronze signs are. This is what we already knew. It does not refer to the woods. The booklet that Diane references has many inaccuracies including acreage, funding sources etc. So it is not a reliable reference. As I say, we are checking to discover the source of the original error on city documents and sites. But since we are positive the swan pen is the Fuertes Wildlife Sanctuary, and if we are serious about including Fuertes's name in our descriptions as an honor to him, of where we are birding, let's at least use this correctly. Linda 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/ --
