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The Year in Pictures
Memories of 2022 on in the Park and on the Trail
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Thank you for your love of Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail!
This week is the last opportunity to make a 2022 charitable gift to FSP. Your gift allows us to continue our work revitalizing and enhancing Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. Donate online with the link below, return the FSP mailing you may have received, or mail a check to: FSP, 120 Brindley Street, Suite 4, Ithaca 14850. If you’d like to make a gift of stock to FSP, please email Rick.
Again, thank you for all you do for FSP, Stewart Park and the Waterfront Trail!
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1. The Inclusive Playground settled in for a winter's nap.
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2. Great views of East Hill from Cass Park, the 2 miles where the Cayuga Waterfront Trail receives regular winter maintence (see map here).
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3. The exterior wall of the Fuertes Overlook was restored thanks to a $20,000 gift from the estate of Dr. Tapan Mitra, a leading economic theorist and long-serving professor at Cornell University and bird lover. Read more about this project.
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4. Spring means rowers in the inlet and daffodiles on the trail, thanks to the Daff-a-Dazzle project, by the Ithaca Garden Club, City of Ithaca, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and the Cornell School of Integrative Plant Science.
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5. We are so grateful to the dozens of volunteers came out for both the Spring Waterfront Cleanup and I Love My Park Day this year.
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6. Mayor Lewis spoke at the ribbon cutting celebration for the new trailhead where the Black Diamond Trail intersects the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park in June. The new trailhead, which honors the late Andrejs Ozolins, a local cycling advocate was designed, funded and installed by NYS Parks, with additional support from Ithaca's bicycling community.
Cayuga Ski & Cyclery donated the Trail's first bicycle tool and pump station and FSP contributed way-finding signs and CWT map, and installed a CWT bench thanks to the support of the Ithaca Veteran Volunteer Firefighter Association.
If you'd like to sponsor another bench or a bike rack, contact FSP at 607-319-4766 or email Rick.
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7. Digging into the history of the Stewart Park Carousel for its 70th birthday led us to this previously unpublished photo of the carousel and train, circa 1955. The photo is courtsey of Bob Venesky, grandson of Robert L. Cochran, who initially brought the train and carousel to the park. Learn more about the Carousel's history and see more pictures here.
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8. We had lots of fun celebrating the Stewart Park Carousel's 70th Birthday with free rides for all. In attendance was Larry Siany (pictured above with his wife Lena) who has taken a ride on the carousel every one of its seventy years, including 2015 when his grandaughter Julia John repainted the horses along with Christi Sobel.
Thank you to Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca, EZ Claw, Northstar House, Visions Federal Credit Union and Cornell Concert Series for sponsoring free rides on the Carousel this summer!
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9. It was a great year for Watermusic & Dancing on the Trail! Thank you to Triphammer Arts for coordinating this event with the Friends of Stewart Park.
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10. Aryana and Sonya showed us how accessibility on the playground, and in the park as a whole, makes a difference in their lives!
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11. The weather was perfect for Party for the Park, FSP and Wharton Studio Museum's annual fundraiser for park revitalization in the Picnic Pavilion.
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12. Views of Cayuga Lake were enhanced thanks to the Ithaca Dragon Boat Club's work trimming back invasive False Indigo Bush along the shoreline.
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13. The ICSD Code Red Robotics team brought lots of energy to the park as they cleaned, raked and cut back invasive brush.
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14. A new bench swing fabricated by Accufab was installed in memory of Nadia Rubaii.
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15. An extension to the accessible pathway was created thanks to financial support from The Rotary Club of Ithaca Sunrise. Thanks the Rotary Club and other volunteers and the City of Ithaca Department of Public Works for coming out in the rain and going the extra mile to make this project happen.
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16. FSP and its partner in park revitlaization, Wharton Studio Museum, received the latest schematic design renderings from Rochester-based Bero Architecture for the Wharton Studio Park Center project. FSP and WSM are excited to be working with Bero -- the firm that led the restoration of the Cascadilla Boathouse -- on this project!
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Wishing you a Happy New Year, from all of us at Friends of Stewart Park!
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