Please share this announcement. A new episode of my Ithaca public access TV series Nature Nearby will begin airing this Wednesday, February 18, at 7:00 p.m. on cable channel 13 in Ithaca (only). This episode is called, "Searching for the Enfield Falls Hotel." Here is the description. [Online clips are listed below.]
For ten years, Prof. Sherene Baugher's Cornell archeology classes have excavated sites of buildings from the former Hamlet of Enfield Falls in upper Robert H. Treman State Park. The most prized goal has been to find the old Enfield Falls Hotel that hosted visitors to the scenic upper gorge in the 1800s. The hotel was the base for visitors while they followed rickety wooden trail structures to 115-feet-high Lucifer Falls (formerly known as Enfield Falls). In 1915, Robert and Laura Treman found the hotel in ruins and decided to try to revive scenic tourism there, eventually choosing to donate the land to the state for a park. This show gives historical background on the hamlet, the hotel, and the search for the hotel site. We go to the active archeology site during the past four years, witnessing the discovery of the hotel, getting down in the dirt with the archeologists, and hearing detailed explanations of the methods and findings at the hotel site. The show is 46 minutes lon g. Here is the TV schedule on Time Warner Cable channel 13: Wednesday, February 18, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 25, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, February 28, 6:00 p.m. The Nature Nearby series will continue every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. through April. If you can't see this program, you can check out the links below to YouTube videos totalling about eleven minutes that present a summary of the park's history and the archeology project: Park history, including the Hamlet of Enfield Falls and the Enfield Falls Hotel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZyQ7hs9tQ&feature=channel_page Archeology in the Hamlet of Enfield Falls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klGJiuj5_Z8&feature=channel_page Tony Ingraham Ithaca, NY Owl Gorge Productions www.owlgorge.com See some of my videos at www.owlgorge.blip.tv Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park: http://friendsoftreman.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
