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Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest - Camping information - Modern family campgrounds
The NHAL State Forest has four modern family campgrounds. Crystal Lake, Big Musky, Firefly and Clear Lake campgrounds have a total of 355 sites. These campgrounds have paved roadways, flush toilets and showers but no electrical hookups. Generators are allowed by permit during certain hours of the day. Permits are free and can be obtained at check-in. There are also hand-pumped water and pit toilets throughout these campgrounds. Clear Lake and Crystal Lake campgrounds have dump stations. These sites may be occupied up to 14 nights per visit.
Generators are allowed on the Modern family campground sites as long as the following rules are followed:
Campers may operate their generators between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and only when they are present on the site.
Campers must let forest personnel know they will be operating a generator upon check-in.
Permission to operate may be revoked if generator is excessively noisy.
Crystal Lake Campground
Crystal Lake Campground (sites 401-501) is located in the central portion of the forest and is the most popular facility. The entire Crystal Lake shoreline is a designated beach so there are no pets allowed anywhere on the shoreline. There are also no motorized boats allowed on the lake. The campground surrounds most of the lake with access to Muskie Lake Campground. There are five vault toilet buildings, three hand pumps for drinking water, one flush toilet building with showers, a sanitary dump station and separate trash and recycling dumpsters. There is a small craft boat landing within the campground. Sites 463 and 438 are designated ADA accessible.
Near the campground, there is a large marked swimming beach, picnic area and enclosed reservable shelter. The facility also features access to a paved bike trail which goes to Firefly Lake Campground and on to Boulder Junction in one direction, and past St. Germain in the other. There is also a nature center and a hard-surfaced nature trail for the mobility impaired.
Sites 439-440, 484-485, 497-498 and 499-500 are double campsites. They accommodate up to 12 people and two wheeled camping units. Campers choosing a double site are charged for both halves and a usable camping unit must be set up on site by 11:00 p.m. on check-in day.
Sites 415-418 and 421-423 are walk-to tent only sites where campers must hike a short distance from their cars to the campsite.
Campers should register at the Crystal Lake Visitor Station before setting up camp. There is also an on-site campground host for additional assistance during the busy season.
Directions to Crystal Lake Campground: From the intersection of Highways 51 and 47 in Woodruff, travel Highway 51 north 6.2 miles to Highway M. Turn right on Highway M and drive 2.7 miles to Highway N. Turn right on Highway N and travel 2 miles, the Crystal Lake Ranger Station entrance is on the left.
Crystal Lake GPS coordinates: N46° 00.129’, W89° 37.355’
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Liane B. Russell is a renowned geneticist. Born in Vienna, Austria, she and her family managed to flee the country after its annexation by Nazi Germany. After moving to the United States, Russell became interested in biological research. In 1947, she and her husband, William L. Russell, moved to Oak Ridge. In this interview, Russell explains her experiments on the effects of radiation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s “Mouse House,” including the discovery that the Y chromosome is sex-determining. She describes her work with the environmental movement and the efforts of Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, which she co-founded. She also recalls winning the Enrico Fermi Award from the Department of Energy and a visit to communist East Germany in the 1980s.
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Central Park | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:57 1 Description
00:03:43 1.1 Design and layout
00:05:51 1.2 Visitors
00:07:29 2 Governance
00:10:20 3 History
00:10:29 3.1 Planning
00:11:40 3.1.1 Site
00:14:49 3.1.2 Design contest
00:17:26 3.2 Construction
00:20:34 3.2.1 Late 1850s
00:23:24 3.2.2 1860s
00:26:14 3.2.3 1870–1876: completion
00:28:16 3.3 Late 19th and early 20th centuries: first decline
00:32:12 3.4 1930s to 1950s: Moses rehabilitation
00:35:17 3.5 1960s and 1970s: Events Era and second decline
00:37:57 3.6 1970s to 2000s: restoration
00:41:57 3.7 2010s to present
00:43:23 4 Landscape features
00:43:33 4.1 Geology
00:46:23 4.2 Wooded areas and lawns
00:49:36 4.3 Watercourses
00:53:26 5 Wildlife
00:53:55 5.1 Flora
00:55:52 5.2 Fauna
00:58:40 6 Landmarks and structures
00:58:51 6.1 Plazas and entrances
01:01:23 6.2 Notable structures
01:05:58 6.3 Art and monuments
01:06:07 6.3.1 Sculptures
01:08:31 6.3.2 Structures and exhibitions
01:10:34 6.4 Restaurants
01:11:38 7 Activities
01:11:47 7.1 Tours
01:14:02 7.2 Recreation
01:16:03 7.3 Concerts and performances
01:18:14 8 Transportation
01:18:41 8.1 Public transport
01:21:20 8.2 Transverse roads
01:23:36 8.3 Scenic drives
01:26:51 8.3.1 Modifications and closures
01:30:20 9 Issues
01:30:29 9.1 Crime and neglect
01:33:30 9.2 Other issues
01:35:11 10 Impact
01:35:20 10.1 Cultural significance
01:37:27 10.2 Real estate and economy
01:40:12 11 Notes and references
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Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City, located between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 37.5–38 million visitors annually, and one of the most filmed locations in the world. In terms of area, Central Park is the fifth largest park in New York City, covering 843 acres (3.41 km2).
Central Park was first approved in 1853 as a 778-acre (3.15 km2) park. In 1857, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect/landscape designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition to construct the park with a plan they titled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, and the park's first areas were opened to the public in late 1858. Additional land at the northern end of Central Park was purchased in 1859, and the park was completed in 1876. After a period of decline in the early 20th century, New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses started a program to clean up Central Park. Another decline in the late 20th century spurred the creation of the Central Park Conservancy in 1980, which refurbished many parts of the park during the 1980s and 1990s.
Main attractions of the park include landscapes such as the Ramble and Lake, Hallett Nature Sanctuary, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, and Sheep Meadow; amusement attractions such as Wollman Rink, Central Park Carousel, and the Central Park Zoo; formal spaces such as the Central Park Mall and Bethesda Terrace; and the Delacorte Theater, which hosts Shakespeare in the Park programs in the summertime. The park also has sports facilities, including the North Meadow Recreation Center, basketball courts, baseball fields, and soccer fields.
Central Park was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and as a New York City scenic landmark in 1974. The park is owned by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks), but has been managed by the Central Park Conservancy since 1998, under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership. The Conservancy, a non-profit organization, contributes 75 percent of Central Park's $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all basic care of the park.
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My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
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Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
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