Hi Matt, you wrote:
the City of Ithaca unambiguously uses the name Fuertes Bird Sanctuary for the
wooded area south of Stewart Park, as does the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. It
would be particularly interesting to learn why the City has applied this term
to this specific area...
It's also
Here's a candidate for the (proximal) source of the confusion:
http://www.cayugawaterfronttrail.com/file_uploads/Waterfront_History_Report_2001.pdf
This fascinating Waterfront History Report entirely misses the creation of
the Fuertes Memorial Waterfowl Sanctuary (known to us today as the swan
Force of habit. There's a certain threshold of persistence required to
accomplish an honorary name change, and the Cayuga Bird Club seems never to
have risen to it. Even the club website refers to the place as Renwick
Sanctuary, so club members can't be faulted for following along.
Fuertes
Having grown up in Ithaca and after 64 years it is hard to change old
habits. Also some of us are resistant to change :?)
Having said that here is a piece of Ithaca history that you might find
interesting.
In the late 1790s, Andrew Moodie received Military Lot No. 88 as part of
his land grant
, was killed by a
robber.
And yes, the old entrance to Stewart Park was much different than today.
Fritzie
- Original Message -
From: Carl Steckler
To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:31 AM
Subject: [PMX:#] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick vs. Fuertes
When Drew called me about the rare Yellow-throated Warbler, and I sent out the text message from my phone, I had to be concise but clear. "Fuertes" and "Renwick" are the same number of characters, but "Renwick" is, I think, a bit less ambiguous. "Renwick" refers to a couple streets in a
Nutter
[nutter.d...@me.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:30 PM
To: Matthew Medler
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick vs. Fuertes
When Drew called me about the rare Yellow-throated Warbler, and I sent out the
text message from my phone, I had to be concise but clear. Fuertes
So Matt's puzzler devolves to the question whether the Renwick Wildwood
Sanctuary was actually renamed after the untimely death of L. A. Fuertes, or
whether that claim only represents a garbled memory of the creation of the
Fuertes Memorial Waterfowl Sanctuary (which we've forgetfully dubbed
I have been reading all of these posts with a great deal of interest. The 100th
anniversary of the Cayuga Bird Club's founding will soon be upon us.
It would be a wonderful project for club members to continue research into
this history and come up with a plan to bring the names and honors
m...@cornell.edu
Cc: cayugabirds-l cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick vs. Fuertes
When Drew called me about the rare Yellow-throated Warbler, and I sent out the
text message from my phone, I had to be concise but clear. Fuertes
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