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Taughannock House Hotel

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As many as 2 million people visit the Taughannock Falls Overlook each year, in Taughannock Falls State Park in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State Parks; but few realize that a century ago a beautiful 2 1/2 story tourist hotel stood nearby, the Taughannock House (also known as Halsey Hotel and the Cataract House). In this episode  (162) of Walk in the Park (weekly public access TV series in Ithaca, NY) we look at this hotel and the archeology work done on its site prior to a wonderful renovation of the overlook area. We also see what’s new at Fillmore Glen State Park, and head into the glen at Watkins Glen State Park. You can watch it online here and on Ithaca cable channel 13:

Friday, March 17, 3:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM

Sunday, 10:00 AM and 2:30 PM

Monday, 8:30 PM

Tuesday, March 21, 8:00 PM

Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham of Owl Gorge Productions. See his national-award-winning book, A Walk through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.


Robert H. Treman State Park: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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In this episode (164) of Walk in the Park, Jim Brophy, Park Manager for Robert H. Treman State Park, gives us a summary of the history of the park, some of the recent projects and accomplishments, and some of the cool plans for the future of this jewel of place. His presentation was on March 30, 2017 at the History Center of Tompkins County in Ithaca, NY and was part of the annual meeting of the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park. The show is watchable online here, below, and will be cablecast on Ithaca public access TV channel 13 at the times listed here.

Thursday, 12:30 and 9:00 PM, April 13

Friday, 1:00 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM and 8:30 PM

Monday, 9:00 AM

Tuesday, 8:00 PM, April 18

Additional cablecasts will be added to this schedule soon.

Walk in the Park is produced at PEGASYS Studio of Spectrum TV in Ithaca, NY, by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, publisher of the national-award-winning book, A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.

 

Falls and a Fort in Niagara, Ontario

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Most of us experience the Niagara Falls area from the American side. In this episode (165) of Walk in the Park we spend some time on the Canadian side, visiting the stupendous waterfall, but also we take a trip into War of 1812 history at Old Fort Erie. The Niagara Peninsula was one of the most important, and bloodiest, regions where this tragic war was fought. Both sites are managed by the Niagara Parks Commission.
We begin this episode with a short video featuring “After the Rain,” a musical composition by my late friend and Ithaca musician, Duke Kooistra.
Finally, I have a short segment called “Park News” where I review some things going on this week in state parks around the Finger Lakes.

You can watch this episode of Walk in the Park right here anytime, or on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 at the following times (check back later for additional times to be added):

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 9:00 PM

Friday, 11:30 AM and 6:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM

Sunday, 10:00 AM and 8:30 PM

Monday, 6:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM and 8:00 PM

Wednesday, May 10, 7;30 PM

The trip to Niagara was to attend the annual conference of the Great Lakes Region of the National Association for Interpretation (NAI), a professional organization for those who interpret our natural and cultural heritage in parks, historic sites, museums, zoos, nature centers, botanical gardens, aquaria, and other sites.

Walk in the Park is a public access TV series produced and cablecast for channel 13 in Ithaca, NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions.

Boat Tour on Cayuga Lake

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The MV Haendel of Ithaca Boat Tours has resumed its cruises this season! Take a virtual cruise (greatly enhanced with visuals) from the Ithaca Farmers Market in this encore episode 111 of Walk in the Park produced two years ago. Narrated by Tony Ingraham, producer of Walk in the Park, who worked on the Haendel as an interpretive guide for ten years. See the full description and cablecast schedule, or watch it online, on this page!

The MV Haendel takes one of its popular sunset cruises on Cayuga Lake.

Minnehaha Falls

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Minnehaha Falls is in Minneapolis, right? Yes, but Watkins Glen State Park has its own Minnehaha Falls, and it’s one of the most distinctive little waterfalls in the glen. See its story here in this episode (#175) of Walk in the Park, recorded at PEGASYS Studio.

You can watch this episode of Walk in the Park right here, and on Ithaca, NY public access TV channel 13 at the following times and on the following dates.

Thursday, 9:00 PM, Sept. 7, 2017

Friday, 8:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM and 10:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM

Monday, 8:30 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM and 8:00 PM

Wednesday, 3:30 PM, September 13

Walk in the Park is a public access TV series in Ithaca, NY produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions. See my national award winning book about Watkins Glen State Park, “A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.”

Smith Woods: Old Growth Woodland in T-burg

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Join two authors of a new book about Trumansburg, NY’s Smith Woods, along with a local historian, on an interpretive tour through this unusual old growth forest and its history and ecology, in this episode 176 of Walk in the Park. Watch it right here anytime!

 

Trumansburg and Smith Woods are near Taughannock Falls State Park and are about ten miles from Ithaca, NY near the west shore of Cayuga Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes region. Old growth forests of this size are very rare outside of the Adirondacks. This woodland has been extensively studied for decades by scientists from Cornell University. Smith Woods is owned and managed by Cayuga Nature Center and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, and is open to the public. It is used for education and research. Smith Woods is directly across the road from the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. The guided tour through Smith Woods featured in this episode of Walk in the Park was presented by the History Center in Tompkins County. Marvin Pritts and Kurt Jordan of Cornell and S.K. List, historian for the Village of Trumansburg, led the tour. It was videotaped by Tony Ingraham, who is the producer of Walk in the Park, a weekly public access television series in Ithaca, NY, recorded at PEGASYS Studio.

This episide of Walk in the Park ran on Ithaca area cable channel 13 from October 26 through November 1, 2017.

Waterfalls in Schuyler County

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The valley south of Seneca Lake (known as Catharine Valley) in the Finger Lakes is rich with valley-side waterfalls, much as Inlet Valley south of Cayuga Lake is. In this episode (181) of Walk in the Park, we visit several of them: Aunt Sarah’s Falls and Shequaga Falls (in the village of Montour Falls), Eagle Cliff Falls in Havana Glen Park, and the falls of Excelsior Glen along the Finger Lakes Trail. You can watch the show here online, and on Ithaca, NY public access cable channel 13 at these times:

Friday, 8:30 PM, December 8, 2017

Saturday, 10:00 AM and 7:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM and 8:00 PM

Wednesday, 7:00 PM, December 13, 2017

Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, for PEGASYS public access TV in Ithaca, NY cable channel 13.

Owasco Lake

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In this episode (182) of Walk in the Park, we visit Owasco Lake, the Finger Lake directly east of Cayuga Lake. We look at the Owasco Lake watershed. Then we visit Fillmore Glen State Park in the valley of the Owasco Inlet south of the Owasco Lake. Named for Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States who was born nearby, Fillmore Glen’s most attractive and accesible feature is the Cowsheds Falls.

We continue with a virtual flyover from Fillmore Glen, over the Owasco Flats, and north down Owasco Lake to Emerson Park in Auburn. We follow that with a video visit to Owasco Flats Nature Preserve, scenes along Owasco Lake moving north, finishing at the shore at the north end of Owasco Lake at Emerson Park.

Finally, we watch a short video about the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s campaign to establish a nature preserve along the east shore of Owasco Lake, which would be just the third publicly accessible conservation area along the lake.

You can watch this episode right here online anytime, and you can see it on Ithaca, NY public access cable channel 13 at the following times over the next week:

Thursday, 9:00 PM, Dec. 15, 2017

Friday, 8:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM & 8:00 PM

Wednesday, 3:00 PM, December 20, 2017

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access TV series in Ithaca, NY produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Studio.


Watkins Glen Resident Artist, Capt. James Hope, Part 1

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From 1872 until his death in 1892, landscape artist Capt. James Hope had an art gallery next to the gorge of Watkins Glen. A lesser known figure of the Hudson River School of landscape painters, Hope captured the beauty of the glen on his canvases and realized his life’s dream of supporting himself and his family with his landscape art. Tony Ingraham tells the first half of this story in this encore episode of Walk in the Park (#130). Next episode (131) will complete the tale. Tony originally gave this illustrated presentation in February 2016 to an audience at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY.

You can watch this episode on Ithaca, NY public access television channel 13 according to the schedule below. Or you can watch it online anywhere, anytime right here!

Thursday, 12:00 PM & 9:00 PM, December 21, 2017

Friday, 8:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM

Monday, 6:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM & 8:00 PM

Wednesday, 3:00 PM, December 27, 2017

Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, as a weekly public access television series at PEGASYS Studio, Ithaca, NY. All rights reserved. Learn more about Watkins Glen State Park in Tony’s national-award-winning book, A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.

Watkins Glen Resident Artist, Capt. James Hope, Part 2

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In this encore episode (#131) of Walk in the Park, we complete our story of Capt. James Hope and his art gallery on the rim of the gorge called Watkins Glen from 1872 to 1892. You also can watch Part 1 of this story.

Watch it online below anytime or on Ithaca cable channel 13 according to the following schedule:

9:00 PM, Thursday, December 28, 2017

8:30 PM, Friday, December 29

10:00 AM & 7:30 PM, Saturday, December 30

10:00 AM & 7:00 PM, Sunday, December 31

8:30 PM, Monday, January 1, 2018

11:30 AM, 8:00 PM, & 11:30 PM, Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Walk in the Park is cablecast on Ithaca, NY public access television, PEGASYS, on Spectrum channel 13. Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions. Learn more about the natural and cultural history of Watkins Glen State Park in Tony’s national-award-winning book, A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.

Bear Trail Winter

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This week, we begin with a peek at high water in the gorge of Buttermilk Glen in Buttermilk Falls State Park. Then we go for a hike in the snow on the “Bear Trail” in the upper park. Finally, we look through 19th century eyes at Taughannock Falls. See it all online below, or on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 at the following times:

Thursday, 9:00 PM, January 25, 2018

Friday, 3:30 PM & 8:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM & 8:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM & 8:00 PM

Wednesday, 9:00 AM, January 30, 2018

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access cable television series in Ithaca, NY produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Studio .

From Gorges to Wetlands

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Join host Tony Ingraham to explore Cavern Cascade and Glen Obscura in Watkins Glen State Park, winter at the marsh at Lake Treman in Buttermilk Falls State Park, “Icy Cascadilla” Gorge in Ithaca, and fall and winter at the marsh at the Roy H. Park Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust between Yellow Barn State Forest and Hammond Hill State Forest near Dryden, NY. Watch it anytime online right here, or Ithaca cable channel 13 at these times:
Friday, 12:00 noon, February 9, 2018
Saturday, 10:00 AM and 7:30 PM
Sunday, 10:00 AM and 8:30 PM
Tuesday, 11:30 AM and 8:00 PM
Wednesday, 9:00 AM and 7:30 PM, February 14, 2018

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access TV series produced at PEGASYS Studio of Spectrum TV in Ithaca, NY, by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions. Find out more about Ithaca public access television.

Gorges in Stereo

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, photographers made stereographs of countless scenes throughout the country, including our beautiful gorges of the Finger Lakes region of central NY State. Using a stereoscope, a viewer could see a 3D image. Now there is a revival of the art of stereoscopy as exemplified by the new book, The Taughannock Falls Experience, by award-winning 3D photographer Diego Ruiz. See this and more in this episode of Walk in the Park (190) online here anytime and on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 at the following times:

Thursday, 9:00 PM, March 15, 2018
Saturday, 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, 10:00 AM & 6:00 PM
Monday, 4:00 PM
Tuesday, 11:30 AM & 8:00 PM
Wednesday, 11:30 PM, March 21, 2018

Also in this episode, we will see some newly revealed historic photographs of the great flood of 1935 and its impact on Robert H. Treman State Park. And finally, we will take a walk along Fall Creek in Varna, NY in the Monkey Run Natural Area of Cornell Botanic Gardens.

Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Studio for community media TV cablecast in Ithaca, NY.

When Cayuga Froze Over

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Walk in the Park encore episode 100, from March 2015, is now playing.

Three years ago, we had the coldest February on record in the Finger Lakes region and most of the lakes froze over. The larger lakes, Cayuga and Seneca, rarely freeze over due to their relatively high volume and depth. In 2015, Cayuga Lake froze over almost completely, for the first time since 1979. Here’s the story! You can watch it online here and on Ithaca, NY public access TV channel 13, on the following schedule:

Thursday, 4:00 & 9:00 PM, March 22, 2018

Friday, 12:30 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM

Monday, 4:00 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 AM & 8:00 PM, March 27, 2018

Walk in the Park is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions at PEGASYS Studios in Ithaca, NY.

 

Unearthing the Park’s Past

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Every fall, the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park in Ithaca, NY hold their Heritage Day in the upper park, with activities centered around the Old Mill and the ongoing archeology exploration of the former hamlet of Enfield Falls. Park visitors can go over to the dig and ask the archeologists what they are doing and what they are discovering. In this encore episode (60) of Walk in the Park, Prof. Sherene Baugher of Cornell University and her students in her archeology class were unearthing the “Rumsey House,” occupied by the Rumsey family for over 60 years. We interviewed several of the students as they explained what they were finding, on Heritage Day on October 19, 2013.

We also take a short walk on the Gorge Trail at Buttermilk Falls State Park after most leaves have fallen, and we look at apparently deformed trees. I explain the phenomenon in a short video.Finally, we look at some photos of fall colors in the Sixmile Creek area in Ithaca, by Deanna Stickler Laurentz.

You can watch this episode online (below), and on Ithaca cable channel 13 on the following schedule.

Thursday, 9:00 PM, April 19, 2018

Friday, 8:00 PM

Saturday, 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM

Sunday, 10:00 AM & 11:30 PM

Monday, 8:30 PM

Tuesday, 11:30 PM & 8:00 PM, April 24, 2018


Owasco Lake

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In this encore episode (182) of Walk in the Park from last fall, we visit Owasco Lake, the Finger Lake directly east of Cayuga Lake. We look at the Owasco Lake watershed. Then we visit Fillmore Glen State Park in the valley of the Owasco Inlet south of the Owasco Lake. Named for Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States who was born nearby, Fillmore Glen’s most attractive and accesible feature is the Cowsheds Falls.

We continue with a virtual flyover from Fillmore Glen, over the Owasco Flats, and north down Owasco Lake to Emerson Park in Auburn. We follow that with a video visit to Owasco Flats Nature Preserve, scenes along Owasco Lake moving north, finishing at the shore at the north end of Owasco Lake at Emerson Park.

Finally, we watch a short video about the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s campaign to establish a nature preserve along the east shore of Owasco Lake, which would be just the third publicly accessible conservation area along the lake.

You can watch this episode right here online anytime, and you can see it on Ithaca, NY public access cable channel 13 at the following times over the next week:

First cablecast (others to be added shortly)

Thursday, 9:00 PM, April 26, 2018

Saturday, 10:00 AM

Sunday, 10:00 AM

Tuesday, 8:00 PM, May1, 2018

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access TV series in Ithaca, NY produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Studio.

Scenic Tour of Ithaca

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In this week’s encore episode of Walk in the Park (#57) from 2013, I take you on a scenic tour from Cayuga Lake to the hills around the Town of Ithaca. We pass waterfalls, parks, vistas over the valley, take a short walk in a nature preserve, pass through farms, cross creeks, and take in sweeping views of hills, gorges, valleys, and Cayuga Lake. You can watch it on this page anytime, or on Ithaca, NY area’s public access TV cable channel 13 at the following times:

9:00 PM, Thursday, May 3, 2018

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday

2:00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, May 10

Walk in the Park is a 30-minute, weekly public access TV series in Ithaca, NY produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Community Media Center.

 

Ithaca Boat Tour on Cayuga Lake

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Take a virtual tour of the south end of Cayuga Lake on the MV Haendel with Ithaca Boat Tours, complete with plenty of visualizations, video, historic photos, and more! Watch it here online, or on TV in the Ithaca, NY area (cablecast schedule below)..

Explore the geology, history, and ecology of Cayuga Lake, longest of the eleven Finger Lakes in central New York State. Steamboats, railroads, glaciers, waterfalls, cliffs, ancient oceans, mountains, fish, invasive species, state parks, lakeshore hotel, Ezra Cornell, lighthouses, water birds, gorges, rockslides, floods, fires, the Erie Canal, and more!

This is encore episode 111 (produced in 2015) of Walk in the Park, our weekly public access TV show on Time Warner Cable channels 13 in Ithaca, NY. Our 2018 cablecast schedule:

9:00 PM, Thursday, May 31

3:00 PM, Friday, June 1

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday

2:00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, June 7, 2018

Produced by Owl Gorge Productions, copyright 2015. See our books about Watkins Glen State Park and about Ithaca.

Interpreting Ithaca Falls

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Ithaca Falls is one of the most spectacular scenic wonders of New York’s Finger Lakes region. Fall Creek, which flows with the waters of Cayuga Lake’s largest sub-watershed, roars over the falls in a little city park just a minute’s walk from city streets. Though countless thousands have stood in awe of this grand cataract, few have known the story behind its major role in the 19th century industrial history of Ithaca, nor the role Ezra Cornell played in that story before he founded Cornell University. That story is now available to all in the form of outdoor interpretive exhibits installed at the park at the entrance to the gorge last month.

In this episode (194) of Walk in the Park, officials from the City of Ithaca (including Mayor Svante Myrick), Tompkins County Legislature, the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, Cornell Botanic Gardens, and others gathered to dedicate and celebrate the installation of the new interpretive signs in the park. Join us on a walk up along Fall Creek below and above Ithaca Falls while Todd Bittner, Director of Cornell Botanic Gardens Natural Areas, shows us Ezra’s tunnel by the Falls and reveals the role of Ithaca Falls in Ithaca’s 19th century, growth, prosperity, and connection to the world.

Cablecast schedule on Ithaca area channel 13:

9:00 PM, Thursday, June 7

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday

2:00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, June 14

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access television series produced and cablecast at PEGASYS Studio in Ithaca, NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions , author and publisher of the national award winning book, A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone  .

Glen of Pools & Rainbow Falls

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Since the Civil War, visitors to the gorge in Watkins Glen have celebrated its enchanting parade of rock, water, and light. Even Mark Twain wrote elegantly of the ribbon of water known as Rainbow Falls, where the late afternoon sun throws a spectrum in the spray.
In the Glen of Pools, short waterfalls spill from one green cup-like basin to the next. Explore these beauties only visible to the hiker on the Gorge Trail in Watkins Glen State Park in this episode (195) of Walk in the Park.

You can watch this episode right here online anytime (below), and on Ithaca, NY public access television at local cable channel 13 at the following times;

9:00 PM, Thursday, June 14, 2018

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday

2:00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, June 2

Walk in the Park is a weekly, half hour, public access television series produced at PEGASYS Studio in Ithaca NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions (where you can also get a peek at Ingraham’s national award winning and richly illustrated book, A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water’s Sculpture in Stone.)

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