by Philip Petronis, Board President
Dear Friends:
This is a time of transition for the Friends of the Trailside Museum. We are transitioning into spring with all the pleasure it brings (although the pollen has been especially tough this year.) It seems ages ago now, but we have left our maple sugaring behind following our March 12th cold and blustery sugaring off party. And with spring slowly coming on we enjoyed a recent Friends-sponsored bird walk with Ed Kanze, a world-renowned naturalist and birding expert and a former curator at the Trailside Museum. We will invite him back again next year, so keep your eye on the calendar for early May 2023.
But our biggest transition will be adjusting to our dear Museum Curator Mindy Quintero moving on to take on a new opportunity as curator at Muscoot Farm. This is a nice opportunity for Mindy and we are happy for her, but we will certainly miss her. We take comfort that she will not be far away and can visit her at Muscoot. We look forward to welcoming and working with her replacement, Danniela Ciatto, in the near future.
We continue to make investments in the Res. Most recently we have funded the purchase of a walk-behind commercial grade brush mower. A number of the fields have gotten increasingly overgrown with invasive shrubs that the tractor mowers cannot reach, to cut because over time the ground has gotten too wet for the heavy tractors. We hope this addition will allow the Res personnel to clear the invasive plants and recover these fields, perhaps with walking trails added to expand the scope of our open spaces.
Thank you for being members of the Friends and supporting these investments in the Res. The Board of the Friends and the County appreciates your support as it enables us to enhance the Res for your enjoyment.
Happy Trails