The winner of a Preservation Award from Historic Ithaca, the building continues to operate today as a locally-owned small business for over 100 years, currently serving as a grocery/deli and tavern that prioritizes locally sourced goods. Join Beth Harrington and Sarah Michelle and learn about the history of this original general store in the hamlet of Brooktondale. Join local historian Patricia Longoria to 'read' gravestones for the stories they tell of the people whose lives are commemorated in stone. Once known as 'a little country graveyard,' the cemetery formally established during the Civil War, preserves the histories of the county's early farm families and charts the area's transition to a university suburb influenced by the founding and expansion of Cornell University. After the talk participants will be able to visit the local Brooktondale Farmer's Market at the Brooktondale Community Center (524 Valley Rd with on-site parking.)Įxplore more than two hundred years of Tompkins County History on a guided walk through the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in the Village of Cayuga Heights. Join Beth Harrington and Sarah Michelle and learn about some of Brooktondale’s famous residents as we tour the historic Brookton Cemetery. Please park on the uphill side of Lounsbery Road. NOTE: The cemetery is near the intersection of Lounsbery Road and Landon Road and the entrance is indicated with number 205 on a green sign. See more past episodes.Ĭlick the buttons below to reserve your spot today! Walk in the Park is a non-commercial, public access television series produced at PEGASYS Studio in Ithaca, NY by Owl Gorge Productions, a Finger Lake Tourism Alliance partner.

Naturalist and preserve steward Bob Beck takes us on a tour of the ecological richness created by an Ice Age legacy, visiting swamps, fens, bogs and the remarkable biodiversity created by glacial eskers and kettle ponds in this 309 acre nature preserve along Fall Creek between Freeville and McLean, NY. In this encore episode of Walk in the Park from 2018, we join a Tompkins County Environmental Management Council public field trip to one the county’s special “Unique Natural Areas” and Nature Conservancy Preserve, the O.D. The channel 13 schedule repeats next week. Thursday, August 3, on Friday at 3 p.m., and 9 am Saturday. “Von Engeln Preserve by Fall Creek,” online anytime and on Ithaca cable channel 13 at these times: beginning 9 p.m.

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