The obituary is a fascinating read. It gives me a massive inferiority
complex on behalf of my own generation - we just grew up so soft, in such
easy lifestyles. We aren't making any more humans like Clarence Petty, at
least not here in the good old US.
Mr. Petty was my brother's flight instructor. I have been trying to let my
brother know about this, but haven't been able to reach him; he will be
devastated.
There is also a biography of Clarence Petty that came out about 5 years ago,
for those who are interested.
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Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
> From: <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 4:46:55 -0500
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ENTS] My Adirondack experiences
>
> Noted the recent passing of
> Adirondack protector, Clarence Petty:
>
> nytimes.com/2009/12/06/science/earth/06petty.html
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>
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> ---- [email protected] wrote:
>> Barry,
>>
>>
>> I enjoyed your account of your Adirondack Park days. The Park is such a huge
>> place that you can focus your attention in one area and be oblivious to the
>> rest. I've spent a lot of time in the central and southwestern parts.
>>
>>
>> Bob
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Barry Caselli" <[email protected]>
>> To: "ENTS" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:35:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [ENTS] My Adirondack experiences
>>
>>
>> ENTS,
>> Today I'm finally caught up with my email. But that probably won't last. I've
>> been reading about the Elders Grove in some of the emails. This reminded me
>> of when I was up there myself.
>> To give you some background: At both ends of Schroon Lake there are camps,
>> owned by a group called Word of Life. The camp at the north end is a 90-acre
>> island, one mile from shore, east of the town called Schroon Lake. Word of
>> Life used to tout this island as virgin forest, and they were quite pround of
>> their giant white pine. I know that one of the ENTs went there to measure it
>> a couple years ago, only to find out that it was gone, a victim of a building
>> fire next to it. The island, called Word of Life Island, was purchased by
>> Word of Life in 1946, and it was the former estate of a "Miss Clark", heiress
>> of the Clark Thread fortune.
>> At the south end of the lake, Word of Life has a 340 acre property called the
>> Ranch/Ranger Camp, a camp for 6 to 12 year-olds.
>> I was a camper at the Island for two weeks during the summer of 1979 and
>> again during the summer of 1981, right after I got out of high school. During
>> any time I had to myself I would wander the island, taking pictures of the
>> trees and rocks, the scenery across the lake, etc. In addition to the great
>> White Pine, I also found a single-trunk Paper Birch, which I believe I
>> estimated to have a 2.5 foot DBH. I do have a low-quality picture of it
>> somewhere. I also remember seeing Common Juniper growing on the island, near
>> the shore, if I remember correctly.
>> From September 1981 to September 1982 I attended the Word of Life Bible
>> Institute, which uses the Ranch/Ranger Camp as its campus. While there I
>> would wander the trails and photograph the white pines. They were pretty and
>> majestic, but not very big. They might have been tall though.
>> When winter started, in 1981, I wrote home and asked my parents to include a
>> thermometer in their next care package, since it was getting really cold
>> there. When the thermometer arrived I hung it on a hook outside the window
>> nearest my bunk in the cabin I lived in. The coldest morning I recorded was
>> -22 F. That morning at breakfast the staff announced that the thermometer in
>> the parking area at the maintenance garage read -40 F.
>> Students had to work, and I was put to work with the maintenance guys. During
>> the winter we had to shovel the snow off every roof of every building on all
>> their properties, after every snowfall. Wow, what an experience! To get to
>> the island we rode on the back of a pickup truck, driving on the ice.
>> Also during the 12 months I as there, I used to ride my bicycle a lot, and
>> covered many miles with it.
>> So anyway, those are my experiences in the Adirondack Park. By the way, the
>> Adirondack Park is slightly larger than the State of New Jersey.
>> Barry
>>
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