Finger Lakes Fall from the Sky
In this episode of Walk in the Park TV, we go up in the air again with Bill Hecht's dazzling photographs of the Finger Lakes at the peak of fall colors. We see Ithaca, Sixmile Creek vally, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Cayuga Lake, Myers Point in Lansing, Keuka Lake, Bluff Point, Keuka College, Canandaigua Lake, Naples NY, the Hi Tor State Wildlife Management Area, and the Great Hill (or South Hill) at the south end of Canandaigua Lake, considered (and celebrated) by the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois as their birthplace. Great Hill is now a Finger Lakes Land Trust Preserve. We fly over Cliffside State Forest in Schuyler County and Cornell University's Arnot Forest in Tompkins County. We also go back to Ithaca Falls for a couple of short videos of the waterfall, fall colors, and fly fishermen in Fall Creek ( set to music. And we reconsider a couple of maple tree species in the western United States, the bigtoothed maple in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the bigleaf maple on the West Coast, from California through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and just into southeast Alaska. Join host Tony Ingraham in this scenery-packed episode of Walk in the Park (#26).
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Produced by Owl Gorge Productions ( at PEGASYS Studios, Ithaca NY's public access television center, run by Time Warner Cable.
Donald A. Curtis, Private First Class, US Army, World War Two
Private First Class Donald A. Curtis
DOB: 1/18/1924
Hometown: Johnstown, NY
Place of Birth: Johnstown, NY
Inducted: 12/11/1942
Discharged: 11/25/1945
United States Army
United States Naval Reserve
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th
United States. Army. Infantry Battalion (Separate), 99th
10/25/2011
New York State Military Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Curtis, Donald A.
Curtis, Gerd
Elbeuf, France
AAchen, Germany
Malmedy, Belgium
D Day
99th (Viking) Battalion
Infantry (Ski Troops)
Interviewed with his wife, Gerd.
Veteran oral history interview published by the New York State Military Museum. The State of New York, the Division of Military and Naval Affairs and the New York State Military Museum are not responsible for the content, accuracy, opinions or manner of expression of the veterans whose historical interviews are presented in this video. The opinions expressed by those interviewed are theirs alone and not those of the State of New York.
Great Lakes | Wikipedia audio article
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Great Lakes
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The Great Lakes (French: les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. They consist of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, although hydrologically, there are four lakes, Superior, Erie, Ontario, and Michigan-Huron.
The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area, and second largest by total volume, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles (22,671 km3), slightly less than the volume of Lake Baikal (23,615 km³, 22–23% of the world's surface fresh water). Due to their sea-like characteristics (rolling waves, sustained winds, strong currents, great depths, and distant horizons) the five Great Lakes have also long been referred to as inland seas. Not counting Lake Michigan-Huron, Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area, and the largest freshwater lake by area. Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country.The Great Lakes began to form at the end of the last glacial period around 14,000 years ago, as retreating ice sheets exposed the basins they had carved into the land which then filled with meltwater. The lakes have been a major source for transportation, migration, trade, and fishing, serving as a habitat to a large number of aquatic species in a region with much biodiversity.
The surrounding region is called the Great Lakes region, which includes the Great Lakes Megalopolis.