This is from:
New York: A Guide to the Empire State
Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Progress
Administration in the State of New York
Copyright 1940
page 243
Stewart Park, at the head of Cayuga Lake, the principal public park of the
city, includes a bathing beach with bathhouses, picnic grounds, athletic
fields, a small zoo, and the Renwick Bird Sanctuary and Fuertes Wild Fowl
Sanctuary, which provide refuge for more than 300 species of birds. These
sanctuaries were made possible by gifts from local citizens and were developed
with the co-operation of the Department of Ornithology of Cornell University.
The memorial gateway at the waterfowl pond bears a bronze plaque in honor of
Louis Agassiz Fuertes ...
Jim
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[bounce-56070042-3494...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Dave Nutter
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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 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 neighborhood nearby,
while I think there are several places named for Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Wasn't
the pond- and feeder-viewing area inside the old Lab of O called the Fuertes
Observatory? Isn't the auditorium at the current Lab which displays so many of
his paintings also named for Fuertes? There are a couple of bronze plaques by
the Swan Pond, one of which honors Fuertes, and the other talks about swans.
Fuertes was a great artist, so I associate his name with his wonderful
paintings and drawings more than with those woods. I see no disrespect in that.
Official name or no, many people do and will call it the Renwick Sanctuary,
including users of the new birding guide which the club just published (see
p.21).
--Dave Nutter
On May 08, 2012, at 08:26 AM, Matthew Medler m...@cornell.edu wrote:
Hi All,
The discovery of the Yellow-throated Warbler in the woods south of Stewart Park
highlighted a question that I've wondered about for some time: why do most
Ithaca birders refer to this area as Renwick Woods or Renwick Bird
Sanctuary rather than Fuertes Bird Sanctuary? Based on the City of Ithaca's
web site, it appears that the official name for this area is in fact Fuertes
Bird Sanctuary:
http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm
Even putting this aside, it's always puzzled me that Ithaca birders would favor
the name of an early Ithaca settler over Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Not only is
Fuertes one of America's greatest bird artists, but he is also one of our most
illustrious Ithaca birding ancestors, having been very active in the Cayuga
Bird Club and the local birding community for many years. I would think that we
would want to celebrate Fuertes's name and use it to refer to the bird
sanctuary that was named in his memory after his untimely death.
I am truly interested in learning why it is that so many use the name Renwick
to refer to the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. But, in the absence of any compelling
reason for favoring Renwick over Fuertes, I'd also encourage birders to use the
sanctuary's official name and honor Fuertes's legacy in the process.
Matt Medler
Ithaca
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