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| Student environmentalists created a living sculpture in the shape of 350. |
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| The climate conscious gathered for a 350 photo at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. |
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| Abby Mayer shows his flugelhorn to members of the Cornwall Conservation Committee. |
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| Dolce Dorfman drove a horse and buggy through Cornwall in 1942 or 1943. |
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| The historical society members gathered to bury the time capsule. |
October 26, 2009
Green was the color of choice in Cornwall this weekend starting with the Cornwall (Green) Dragons varsity football team, which clinched the Section 9 Class A title in a rain-soaked game against Wallkill on Friday night. Cornwall's junior running back Tyree Smallwood scored five touchdowns in the match-up that ended with a score of 49-13.
On Saturday morning, more Cornwall high school students painted their faces green, the school color, but this time they headed out to do their part for the environment. Some twenty students braved a steady downpour at 8 a.m. as they walked through the streets of downtown Cornwall gathering trash in orange bags. The project, lead by members of the environmental club, was part of an international day designed to bring world attention to the harmful effects of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The group took the orange bags (which had been donated by town councilmember Randy Clark) back to the high school gym, where they created the number 350 in an arrangement of bags and people. The number 350 represents what organizers call a safe level of carbon particles in the air.
Over at the Hudson Highland Nature Museum (always a very green place to go), children and parents came over for a morning of activities about the environment that included a group photo on the grounds of the museum that features a large 350 sign. Local folksinger Lydia Adams Davis had written some special songs for the celebration and the rain held off just long enough for everyone to have some fun and to learn more about the simple steps they can take to reduce carbon emissions.
On Sunday, the Dolce Dorfman Community Spirit Day attracted members of the Cornwall Conservation Advisory Committee to the front lawn of Cornwall Town Hall. Tree Warden and committee member Kate Goodspeed was happy to announce the planting of yet another tree on the property, a kwanzan cherry tree that joins two others on the front lawn. Bill Schuster, the head of the Black Rock Forest Consortium also spoke in praise of trees, which are critical to turning harmful carbon dioxide into life-giving oxygen.
Sally Faith Dorfman talked about the efforts of her mother, Dolce, to introduce conservation to the Cornwall community more than fifty years ago. She shared an old photograph of her mother in a horse-drawn wagon on Hudson Street, which she drove to encourage people to save gas, presumably part of the war effort.
Dorfman said that the event was planned to mark the community spirit of those present and of those who came before. She introduced Cornwall-on-Hudson historian Colette Fulton who talked about local people who had been members of a conservation committee in the 1960s. With interesting details, Fulton recounted their contributions to the town that may have been forgotten by many today.
After the tree ceremony, the Cornwall Historical Society presented its Quadricentennial time capsule that sat on the spot where it will be buried near the cherry trees. The box was filled with articles about the 2009 celebration of Henry Hudson’s voyage that society president Maryanne Rose O’Dell said she hoped would be opened in one hundred years, in 2109. She noted that the coordinates of the burial site were on file in the clerk’s office for an enterprising future resident to find. According to Rose O’Dell, there is another time capsule buried more than 100 years ago in the area of Cornwall town hall, but no one knows where it is!
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