An old postcard shows the beginning of the upper gorge in the upper section of Robert H. Treman State Park.
“The Treman Show.” Produced by the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park, this award-winning* half-hour episode of Walk in the Park TV (#44) explores the trails, history, archeology, geology, and plants and wildlife of this scenic and historic park near Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes region. It will show on Ithaca, NY’s public access channel 13 this Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m., and again on Tuesday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. Or, you can watch it right here!
*This video, originally entitled, “Exploring Robert H. Treman State Park,” and part of the Nature Nearby series produced by Tony Ingraham for PEGASYS public access in Ithaca, NY, won first place as the best public access show in Ithaca in 2008.
In this episode (#39, 2/20/13) of Walk in the Park TV (Ithaca, NY public access cable channel 13), I take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!
This show can also be seen on Ithaca’s public access TV channel 13 this Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and next Tuesday, 2/16, at 8:00 p.m.; and at other times the station may decide.
Huh? What could such different regions have in common? Well, there are some commonalities, and there are great differences. The two regions are parts of much larger river basins, the Colorado and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence respectively. Both are eroded into ancient sedimentary rock layers. One is arid, and often desert, while the other receives abundant rainfall. One has been drastically altered by glaciation, while the other apparently has not. In this week’s episode (#37) of Walk in the Park TV, we return to the Grand Canyon (following last week’s show, “Walk Across the Grand Canyon“) and look at the bigger picture.
The South Kaibab Trail hugs the base of this cliff near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
After that, in honor of the Super Bowl champions, the Baltimore Ravens, we take a look at real ravens, including ravens at the Grand Canyon. And finally, we briefly discuss uranium mining at the Grand Canyon.
See it here online, or watch it on Ithaca, NY public access TV channel 13, this Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. each day, or next Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 8:00 p.m., and at other times the station may schedule it until Wednesday, Feb. 13 (check just before the hour and half hour and the day’s cablecast schedule is usually posted briefly).
Highlights from this week’s upcoming Walk in the Park TV public access TV show on Ithaca, NY cable channel 13. See brief video below for times. First showing Thursday, 1/24 at 9:00 p.m. I will also post it online on this blog as soon as possible!
Hikers walk through a red pine plantation on the Finger Lakes Trail in Danby State Forest. Photo by S. Hesse.
Late afternoon sun reflects off ponds in Newman Arboretum in the Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, NY.
A "buck rub" in the East Ithaca Nature Preserve
Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park as viewed from the Rim Trail
See the schedule for Ithaca public access TV channel 13 showings:
This episode will appear on this blog online soon!
This week’s new Walk in the Park TV episode, is here online and on Ithaca, NY’s cable public access channel 13. Watch it tonight (Thursday, 1/17) at 9:00 p.m. or at one of the other times indicated below, or watch it below right here.
The snows of late December yielded to the thaw of early January around Ithaca, NY and the Finger Lakes region. Nowhere has it been more dramatically demonstrated than at roaring Ithaca Falls. We take a short video trip around the cataract from several perspectives to marvel at its power and beauty. Then we go for a walk on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail at Allan H. Treman State Marine Park in Ithaca along Cayuga Inlet and the ice-free shore of Cayuga Lake. And with the snow gone, we look into the gorge at Buttermilk Falls State Park.
But one has to be careful in the woods around Ithaca this January with the DEC’s experimental Deer Management Focus Area in central Tompkins County, where hunting of “antlerless” deer is permitted (with a permit) through the rest of the month. Special guest commentator, the backwoods curmudgeon philosopher Ichabod, sounds off about “Too Many Deer!” (The views and opinions expressed by this character are not necessarily those of this program, Channel 13, or Time Warner Cable!)
Hurricane Sandy heavily damaged the boardwalk at Jones Beach State Park on Long Island. Photo by Joe Rao
This week, Walk in the Park TV goes to coastal New Jersey and Long Island to look at the damage from Hurricane Sandy to state and national parks and communities on the barrier islands. We also also look at Sandy’s snow in the mountains and national parks of Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. And we finish with a walk along the surf of Fire Island listening to the poetry of Walt Whitman. Walk in the Park episode 27, recorded 11/7/12.
This episode begins showing this evening (Nov. 8, 2012) at 9:00 p.m. on Ithaca, NY’s public access cable TV channel 13 and will repeat at various times for the next week. You can watch the entire episode here online, as well:
The scheduled cablecasts on channel 13 in Ithaca are at:
Thursday, 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.
It also is shown at other times as the station manager chooses.
The Old Mill in upper Robert H. Treman State Park is the location of exhibits about the mill, the Hamlet of Enfield Falls, and the CCC camp.
Recorded Oct. 3, 2012 at PEGASYS Studios in Ithaca, NY. See it online here or on Ithaca’s public access TV channel 13 during the schedule below.
This time, we go to Heritage Day in the upper part of Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca. Put on annually by the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park, Heritage Day celebrates the rich history of the former Hamlet of Enfield Falls, which was, in the 19th century, an “agricultural service hamlet” with mills, a blacksmith shop, a general store, and the Enfield Falls Hotel, a small tourist hotel for people coming to see the falls, now known as Lucifer Falls, in the gorge nearby, and forerunner to the state park.
Old photograph of one of the former houses in the Hamlet of Enfield Falls that was torn down after the creation of the state park.
This time, the Friends unveil a plaque honoring their founder, park historian, and former park employee, the late Neil Poppensiek, for his dedicated research on the history of the park, especially the former Civilian Conservation Corps in the park and the Old Mill, one of only two buildings still standing in the former hamlet. The plaque is mounted on a new exhibit of artifacts found by Neil from the CCC camp .
Cornell archeology students search for artifacts on the site of a former building in the Hamlet of Enfield Falls in what is now upper Robert H. Treman State Park.
Then we walk over to the active archeology dig of one of the former house sites being conducted by Cornell Professor Sherene Baugher’s urban archeology class. Students explain to us what the site once was and show us some of the things they have unearthed.
Seneca women demonstrate the traditional craft of corn husk doll making at the Native American Festival.
Our show moves on to the Native American Festival that took place in DeWitt Park in Ithaca during Ithaca’s Apple Festival. The highlight of our visit is a short video of the Allegany River Indian Dancers.
Eagle Cliff Falls is the centerpiece of Havana Glen in Montour Falls, NY.
We take a look at a couple of woodland wildflowers before finishing up with a video visit to Eagle Cliff Falls in Havana Glen Park near Montour Falls south of Watkins Glen, NY.
Watch the entire show online here or on Ithaca’s public access cable TV channel 13 on the schedule below.
Walk in the Park, the TV show, airs weekly on Ithaca, NY’s public access cable TV channel 13:
Thursday, 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.
It also is shown at other times as the station manager chooses.
This week’s episode begins showing tonight on Ithaca’s public access cable channel 13 at 9:00. And you can watch it online here!
We visit this little waterfall in Buttermilk Glen.
Recorded 9/26/12 at PEGASYS studios in Ithaca, NY. This week we go to Cornell Plantations for the annual March for the Animals of the SPCA of Tompkins County, a big success despite the pouring rain. Then we sail out on Cayuga Lake at dusk, hike around Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; visit the Old Mill and the archeology sites of the Hamlet of Enfield Falls and the CCC camp in the upper park; check out a pretty waterfall in Buttermilk Falls State Park, and discover zig zag goldenrod along the Gorge Trail there.
See the show right here or catch it on TV during the schedule below!
Walk in the Park, the TV show, airs weekly on Ithaca, NY’s public access cable TV channel 13:
Thursday, 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.
It also is shown at other times as the station manager chooses.
This week’s new episode of Walk in the Park, the TV show, will first air this evening (Thursday, Sept. 20) at 9:00 p.m. on Ithaca’s public access cable channel 13. Or, you can see it here online!
Taughannock Gorge cuts toward Cayuga Lake, which winds to the north. Photo courtesy of Bill Hecht
Recorded on Sept. 19, 2012, “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” Host Tony Ingraham invites you to Heritage Day at Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca, then flies you over Cayuga Lake and Taughannock Falls with the East Hill Flying Club. Next over to Watkins Glen State Park to look at invasive species, to a waterfall and pool in Buttermilk Falls State Park, and to look at white snakeroot up close!
Walk in the Park, the TV show, airs weekly on Ithaca, NY’s public access cable TV channel 13:
Thursday, 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m.
It also is shown at other times as the station manager chooses.
