Calendar of Isham Park
Centennial lectures/walking tours for June 2012 Art Stroll:
See this link for the first tour which took place this morning:
http://volunteersishampark.blogspot.com/2012/06/1st-lecture-in-series-related-to-isham.html
peninsula in Inwood Hill
Park
Shorakapok: Native
Americans of Northern Manhattan
Northern Manhattan has a vibrant history of the Nativespeoples of this land. The Urban Park Rangers along with Harlan Pruden, a member of the Cree Nation, will lead am interactive lecture and walk on the Lenape and other Native Peoples of Northern Manhattan as they also explore the Indian rock shelters and Inwood Hill and Isham Parks.
Northern Manhattan has a vibrant history of the Nativespeoples of this land. The Urban Park Rangers along with Harlan Pruden, a member of the Cree Nation, will lead am interactive lecture and walk on the Lenape and other Native Peoples of Northern Manhattan as they also explore the Indian rock shelters and Inwood Hill and Isham Parks.
Saturday June 16th, 1:00pm meet at Inwood Hill Nature Center:
Where's the Water? Inwood's Springs and
Wells of Yesteryear (and what became of them)
Don Rice co-organizer of
“Lost Inwood” will expand his presentation at the Indian Road Café earlier this
year: “Running water wasn't available to
Inwood residents until the later part of the 1800s. Before it became possible
to simply turn on a faucet, how did people get fresh water to drink and use?
The answer: a network of springs and wells which were spring-kled throughout
northern Manhattan.
We'll use our virtual dowsing rods to trace their story. Where were Inwood's
springs and wells of yesteryear? Are any still around today?”
Sunday June 24th, 1:00pm meet at Inwood Hill Nature Center:
Sunday June 24th, 1:00pm meet at Inwood Hill Nature Center:
Art Deco/ WPA design in Isham and Inwood Hill
Parks
A slide lecture ending in a walking tour with Pat Courtney. Take a look at the Art Deco/WPA era design and structures in both parks. Learn of the designers discovered during the process of the study for potential historic districts in Inwood which was selected in 2011 as one of the inaugural “Six to Celebrate” communities by the Historic Districts Council.
Sunday June 30th, at 1:00pm at the Isham memorial terrace in Isham Park, above Broadway, enter the park at the stone gate across from West 212th and up the sloped path or stairs by the Ginkgo tree to the terrace (follow signs). In case of rain, meet at the Inwood Hill Park Nature Center:
A slide lecture ending in a walking tour with Pat Courtney. Take a look at the Art Deco/WPA era design and structures in both parks. Learn of the designers discovered during the process of the study for potential historic districts in Inwood which was selected in 2011 as one of the inaugural “Six to Celebrate” communities by the Historic Districts Council.
Sunday June 30th, at 1:00pm at the Isham memorial terrace in Isham Park, above Broadway, enter the park at the stone gate across from West 212th and up the sloped path or stairs by the Ginkgo tree to the terrace (follow signs). In case of rain, meet at the Inwood Hill Park Nature Center:
Julia Isham Taylor, birthday celebration
(JITs actual birth date: June 28, 1866) Come help to celebrate the birthday of the woman who initiated the gift
of Isham Park in 1911-12.
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