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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.)

Smith Woods: Old Growth Woodland in Trumansburg

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Join two authors of a 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 encore episode 176 of Walk in the Park from last year. Watch it right here anytime! And see the Ithaca cable channel 13 schedule below.

Ithaca channel 13 cablecast schedule:

9:00 PM, Thursday, June 21,j 2018

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM Tuesday

2:00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, June 28

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.

Watkins Glen State Park Renewal!

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The long-awaited extraordinary renovations to the Main Entrance at Watkins Glen State Park at the beginning of the gorge down in the village of Watkins Glen are now complete! Join local and state officials and 100 others as we dedicate the new gardens, walkways, visitor center, expanded gift shop and concession cafe, and numerous excellent interpretive exhibits where a parking lot once filled the mouth of the gorge. This episode (196) of Walk in the Park is watchable online right here (below), and on Ithaca NY cable channel 13  at the following times:

9:00 PM, Thursday, June 28, 2018

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 3

2:00 PM, Wednesday, July 4

8:00 AM, Thursday, July 5

Walk in the Park is an Ithaca, NY public access TV series produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions (where you can also find information about Ingraham’s national award winning book about the park, A WALK THROUGH WATKINS GLEN: WATER’S SCULPTURE IN STONE). This weekly television series is produced at PEGASYS Studio in Ithaca, and is cablecast on Ithaca area local channel 13.

Taughannock Falls Folklore

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Host Tony Ingraham reads and illustrates legends and stories about Taughannock Falls before it was a state park in this episode 197 of Walk in the Park. Find out about who Taughannock was, the “door” in the falls, the Taughannock Giant, and other “facts and fancies,” as author Margaret Badger called them in New York Folklore Quarterly in 1963. Watch this episode right here online anytime or on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 at the following times:

9:00 PM, Thursday, July 12, 2018

3:00 PM, Friday July 13

9:00 AM, Saturday, July 14

8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 17

2:00 PM, Wednesday, July 18

8:00 AM, Thursday, July 19, 2018

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access television series produced at PEGASYS Community Media Center studio In Ithaca, NY. Produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions

Artist’s Dream & Alien Invasion

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This time on Walk in the Park (episode 198), we look at the long history of the entrance to Watkins Glen State Park, from its garden days of a century ago, to the 1935 flood, to the long bleak decades of asphalt, to this year’s unveiling of a beautiful new introduction to one of America’s most famous and most popular state parks.Then we explore two charming sections of the glen, Shadow Gorge and Glen Arcadia.

From there we travel to Robert H. Treman State Park in Ithaca, NY. We take a peek at what has to be New York’s most scenic public swimming area. Then park environmental education staff tell us about and show us invasive species that are infesting our lands and waters, as part of Invasive Species Awareness Week.

You can watch this episode online on this page (below), and on Ithaca cable channel 13 at the following times:

9:00 PM, Thursday, July 19

3:00 PM, Friday, July 20

9:00 AM, Saturday, July 21

8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 24

2:00 PM, Wednesday, July 25

8:00 AM, Thursday, July 26

Walk in the Park will continue to feature this in upcoming episodes. 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


Waterfalls, Reflections, and Jumping Worms

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Walk in the Park episode 199.

Recent rains have ended our drought in the Finger Lakes and make Buttermilk Falls live up to its name. We take a look at part of Glen Facility, the final, gentle section of the Gorge Trail in Watkins Glen State Park. And we compare some then and now images of the Finger Lakes’s most famous and popular state park.

Then we move to Robert H. Treman State Park where park staff continue their Invasive Species Awareness Week explanations of some of the invaders that damage our native plants and animals and their ecosystems.

You can watch this episode of Walk in the Park online right here, or on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 at the following times:

9:00 PM, Thursday, July 26, 2018

3:00 PM, Friday, July 27

9:00 AM, Saturday, July 28

8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 31

2:00 PM, Wednesday, August 1

8:00 AM, Thursday, August 2

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access TV series produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, at PEGASYS Studio of Spectrum TV in Ithaca, NY, and cablecast on local channel 13.

Carpenter Falls

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Encore episode 174 of Walk in the Park, from a year ago.

Not all of the waterfalls in the Finger Lakes are around Ithaca, NY. 90-feet-high Carpenter Falls is at the head of Bear Swamp Creek Gorge on the southwest flank of Skaneateles Lake, two Finger Lakes east of Cayuga Lake. The falls themselves are in a NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Unique Area, which adjoins the Bahar Nature Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust which includes most of the gorge all the way down to a canoe/kayak landing on Skaneateles Lake. Join Tony Ingraham as he guides us in exploring this park in episode 174 of Walk in the Park. Watch it here online or on Ithaca, NY public access TV cable channel 13 on the schedule below.

We start this episode of Walk in the Park with some photos and a short discussion of the  tragic and disturbing events in Charlottesville, VA  year ago, where American Nazis and KKK white supremacists descended on Emancipation Park, the site of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that the City of Charlottesville had decided to remove. Tony once lived in Charlottesville, as did his parents for many years.

You can watch this episode online on this page, or on Ithaca NY cable channel 13 at the following times:

9:00 PM. Thursday, August 9,j 2018

3:00 PM, Friday

9:00 AM, Saturday

8:00 PM, Tuesday, August 14

2;00 PM, Wednesday

8:00 AM, Thursday, August 16, 2018

Walk in the Park is a weekly public access TV series on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13 produced at PEGASYS Studio by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions.





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