The Friends of Treman are pleased to present this encore episode of the Ithaca public access TV show, Walk in the Park, produced by Friends board president, Tony Ingraham in 2020. You can watch it here online anytime,
and on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum TV app) at the following times:
Thursday, October 16, at 9 p.m.
Friday, October 17, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, October 18, at .9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 19, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
This schedule repeats next week.
Description:
Visitors today walk into the upper gorge at Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca, NY to see the spectacular Lucifer Falls plunge into its huge rock amphitheater. But in the early 1800s, it was called Enfield Falls, as was the "agricultural service hamlet" of Enfield Falls just upstream, complete with mills, a blacksmith shop, post office, school, general store and other businesses as well as a couple of dozen houses. In 1853, Henrietta Wickham opened the Enfield Falls Hotel to serve tourists who found their ways up the country roads to see this gem of New York State scenery. But by 1914, the hamlet was in decline, the hotel was in ruins, and the wooden walkways into Enfield Glen that had been built and maintained by the hotel operators had fallen apart.
In 1915, a prominent businessman and his wife from Ithaca drove their car up the new state highway near Enfield Falls. They had come to enjoy the gorge and waterfalls, as they had remembered them from ten years earlier. But they were disappointed and dismayed by the condition of the place. They were Robert H. Treman and his wife Laura. Robert Treman determined to restore beauty to the place and to make the gorge and falls accessible to the public once more, and forever.
Walk in the Park is a public access television series produced in Ithaca, NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions at PEGASYS Studio, and is shown bi-weekly on Ithaca channel 13.
and on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum TV app) at the following times:
Thursday, October 16, at 9 p.m.
Friday, October 17, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, October 18, at .9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 19, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
This schedule repeats next week.
Description:
Visitors today walk into the upper gorge at Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca, NY to see the spectacular Lucifer Falls plunge into its huge rock amphitheater. But in the early 1800s, it was called Enfield Falls, as was the "agricultural service hamlet" of Enfield Falls just upstream, complete with mills, a blacksmith shop, post office, school, general store and other businesses as well as a couple of dozen houses. In 1853, Henrietta Wickham opened the Enfield Falls Hotel to serve tourists who found their ways up the country roads to see this gem of New York State scenery. But by 1914, the hamlet was in decline, the hotel was in ruins, and the wooden walkways into Enfield Glen that had been built and maintained by the hotel operators had fallen apart.
In 1915, a prominent businessman and his wife from Ithaca drove their car up the new state highway near Enfield Falls. They had come to enjoy the gorge and waterfalls, as they had remembered them from ten years earlier. But they were disappointed and dismayed by the condition of the place. They were Robert H. Treman and his wife Laura. Robert Treman determined to restore beauty to the place and to make the gorge and falls accessible to the public once more, and forever.
Walk in the Park is a public access television series produced in Ithaca, NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions at PEGASYS Studio, and is shown bi-weekly on Ithaca channel 13.
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