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 Fuerte
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 wrote:
> On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton > /mc
On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton
http://mc/compose?to=dianegmor...@gmail.com>>
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 u
What can or should be done to educate the public, now that we know that Fuertes' name was attached to the swan pond area, not the woods south of Stewart Park? * Website: It ought to be easy to get the City of Ithaca Website changed from Fuertes to Renwick. * Arch: As part of the Cayuga Bird Club ce
Hi all,
Just a quick note to add more context.
The City and the private group, The Friends of Stewart Park, have been
awarded a grant to make some renovations to the Boat House that would allow
limited use of the second floor. Additional grants will likely be applied
for to further restore the B
If you buy a map of Ithaca, you see those woods clearly marked as
Fuertes Bird Sanctuary.
However it came to pass, Fuertes is the de facto name of those woods
as far as the city and population is concerned.
Jane's fine articles and research show that this is erroneous (I
assume due to a clerical e
> Best,
> Geoffrey Nulle
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> To: "Diane Morton"
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It hardly seems an honor to the memory of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the Cayuga
Bird Club's first president
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> Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a
> sanctuary was created in his hon
It hardly seems an honor to the memory of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the Cayuga
Bird Club's first president, for the eBird team or the city or the authors of
the waterfront plan to preempt his club's authority regarding the proper name
of the sanctuary that he dedicated on its behalf as "Renwick Wil
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Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a
sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area
now often called the swan pond. Cayuga
Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans a
Hi everyone,
I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions
are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick,
I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca
calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the
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