The March meeting is scheduled on March 27 at 52 Duncaster Road at 3:00. See the blog for meeting notes.
Plant Sale: North Central Conservation District Fundraiser
Order by March 31st and pick up at the 4-H education center at Auerfarm, Bloomfield April 15th and 16th. Photos and descriptions of the edibles, trees, evergreens, seedlings, perennials are at: The North Central Conservation District Website.
March 22, 2011: Park River Watershed: Past, Present and Future.
9:00am – 9:30 Registration
9:30am -10:00am Welcome
Walter Harrison, President, University of Hartford
Sherry Buckberrough, Organizer Water on Our Doorstep,
and Chair, Art History, University of Hartford
10:00-11:45am
Park River Watershed History
* Imaging the Park Watershed-Hudson River School and Daniel Wadsworth, Nancy Noble, Art History, Univ. of Hartford and Univ. of Mass, Amherst
* A River Choked by Urbanization
Andrew Walsh, Associate Director, Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life Trinity College
* Legacy of the Clean Water Act
Roger Reynolds, Senior Staff Attorney,Ct Fund for the Environment
Moderator-Elizabeth Normen, Publisher, Connecticut Explored
11:45am -2:00pm
Lunch- reservations required for lunch at 1877 Club (extra cost $10.50)
-student poster sessions and exhibition at
Mortensen Library, Univ. of Hartford +Public Education Projects – Visual Communication Design, Hartford Art School
and Water Quality Research Trinity College;
2:00-3:45
The Park River Watershed Now
* Neighborhood Stormwater
-Joseph Bushey, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
* North Park Watershed Current Conditions
–Erik Mas, P.E., Fuss & O’Neill with project participant Jonathan Gourley, Environmental Science, Trinity College
* Art and Ecology in the Park River Watershed
Sherry Buckberrough and Mary Rickel Pelletier, Director, Park Watershed Revitalization Initiative
Moderator:Katherine Owens, Assistant Professor, Politics and
Government, Univ. of Hartford
3:45-4:00pm Break
4:00pm -5:30pm Future of the Watershed
* North Park Watershed Plan Implementation -
-MaryAnn Nusom Haverstock, Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse, CT DEP
* Park River within Hartford-
- Roger O’Brien, Director of Planning, City of Hartford
* MDC Improvements to the North Park River–
Robert Moore, P.E., MDC Chief Administrative Officer,
Moderator: Michael J. Crosbie–Chair, Dept of Architecture,
University of Hartford
EVENING PRESENTATION – 7:30 – 9:00pm
artist Mary Miss – recent works: City as Living Laboratory
Wilde Auditorium, Univ of Hartford
THIS SYMPOSIUM AND EVENING LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
to register – call Martha Whitehead (860) 768-4742
or email mwhitehea@hartford.edu
for parking info + reservations to roundtable luncheon (extra cost)
Reservations are suggested for the symposium and for lunch.
The symposium is free. However lunch at the 1877 Club costs $10.50.
for additional program information see
http://www.parkwaterarts.org/water-at-our-doorstep
for a listing of on-going events, find Park Water Arts on Facebook
other inquiries, contact:
Mary Rickel Pelletier
maryp@parkwatershed.org
(860) 881-5089–
Mary Rickel Pelletier
Project Director, Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative
in collaboration with the Farmington River Watershed Association