The Unwitting Steward

I wanted to share a poem that one of our Urban EcoStewards, Mary Alice Drusbasky, recently wrote about her experiences in Schenley Park. Thanks Mary Alice!
The Unwitting Steward
by Mary Alice Drusbasky
The invasive plants have been removed
from our park’s site, and replaced with natives.
It is Autumn, time to gather their precious seeds.
David is excited [...]

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Art from above

Two things seem to be dominating life at the Parks Conservancy at the moment: the Body and Soul: Parks and the Health of Great Cities conference (next month!!), and the restoration of the Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain.  So following up on Laurie’s excellent post below, I’d like to talk a little more about the fountain [...]

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Mary and Barney

You know how sometimes you learn something new and then you start reading or hearing about it everywhere?  Well, something like that happened to me recently as I was working on a grant proposal requesting funds to restore the Mary Schenley memorial.  (The memorial is the magnificent fountain and sculpture across the street from the [...]

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