🍁Autumn, Auroras, Additions and More!🍂

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Northern Lights, Construction, Volunteer Thanks, and News

October 23, 2024 View this email in your browser Autumn in Stewart Park and on the Trail Colors are popping in the trees and in the sky! Read on for updates on what’s happening in Stewart Park, the Waterfront Trail, and with our partner organizations. Enjoy these beautiful fall pictures! Stewart Park was the place to be for Aurora Borealis sightings! What a treat to to see the Northern Lights over multiple evenings this October. Here are some of the beautiful pictures taken. Photo Credit: Maya Haley (top, bottom right), Chris Ray (bottom left), and Todd Kurzweil (bottom middle) Thank you Volunteers! Friends of Stewart Park has recently hosted two large groups of volunteers in the park. Ithaca High School’s Code Red Robotics Team 639 (above) brought 43 teens who trimmed the lakeshore, picked up trash, de-cobwebbed the Cascadilla Boathouse, and raked on the playground for two hours on October 8. Then on October 19, Cornell University Glee Club (below) brought 21 students who did more lakeshore trimming and trash pick up, and even oiled squeaky chains on the bench swings! Picnic Pavilion Addition Construction On Monday, Sept. 23, Friends of Stewart Park and Wharton Studio Museum held a Groundbreaking to mark the beginning of construction of a new Addition to the back of the historic Picnic "Large" Pavilion. Progress on the Addition is visible! WL Kline, the construction company, has been working hard! The project is being managed by Jennifer Ahrens of Bero Architecture in Rochester, who also led the Cascadilla Boathouse restoration in 2021 and is the lead architect on the Wharton Studio & Cafe project. The Addition is slated for completion by spring 2025 in time for the camp and rental season. In the summer, the Picnic Pavilion home base for Ithaca Youth Bureau’s Stewart Park Summer Day Camp which has operated out of the building for over 60 years. This new Addition creates safer and more accessible storage for equipment and supplies for Ithaca Youth Bureau’s Camp staff and campers. The project also paves the way for the future Wharton Studio & Café in the Wharton Studio Building across the way, where camp equipment and supplies are currently housed. Learn more about the project here. Colors of Fall Frank Muller is our Park and Trail Gardener and a skilled and dedicated horticulturalist. He is also a talented photographer. He has taken all these images this October. Follow Frank on Instagram at frankmullerphoto. Grant for New Wayfinding Signs & More FSP is thrilled to be awarded a Tompkins County Tourism Program Capital Grant in the amount of $19,000 for updating all trail wayfinding signs on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park, replacing a few wayfinding signs along the remainder of the Waterfront Trail between Inlet Island and Stewart Park, and making some much needed trail pavement repairs caused by tree root damage along the Waterfront Trail. Thank you to the Strategic Tourism Planning Board and the Tompkins County Legislature for this generous support. Hats for Sale Caps for sale! Friends of Stewart Park has new hats for sale in three different styles. A Stewart Park hat is a great way to show your love for the park. They make a great gift for the upcoming holidays, or a great costume if you plan to dress as Rick Manning for Halloween! Hats can purchased online and picked up at the FSP office in the Aeroplane Factory Building at 120 Brindley Street. Shipping or delivery may be available in certain situations. Message info@friendsofstewartpark.org to arrange. LEARN MORE & BUY Furnishing Sponsorship Opportunities Help FSP enhance the park to make it as comfortable, inviting and accessible as possible by sponsoring a beautiful high-quality furnishing -- perhaps a new glider, a new playground bench, or a new Waterfront Trail bench like the one pictured here! Click below to learn more about furnishing sponsorship options. Every sponsored furnishing includes a custom dedication! VISIT FUNISHINGS PAGE From Wharton Studio Museum From Wharton Studio Museum, our partners in park revitalization: It's been a lively Silent Movie Month and we're now in the home stretch with two more not-to-be-missed screenings, both featuring Clara Bow, It Girl of the 1920s. Saturday, October 26th at 4pm, Cornell Cinema presents a double feature of the film It from 1927 and a short from 1923, The Pill Pounder. Accompaniment on piano by Philip Carli, one of the world's most celebrated composers for silent film. Please visit cinema.cornell.edu for tickets. Co-sponsored by Wharton Studio Museum. And on Monday, October 28th, Cinemapolis, Wharton Studio Museum and Cornell Cinema present Dancing Mothers, a silent drama produced in 1926. 8pm at Cinemapolis. The screening is FREE! Happy Fall, Ya’ll! Copyright (C) 2024 Friends of Stewart Park, Inc.. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe