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Journal photo by Robert V. Niles
Jean Holloway and Frank Knight
...in front of Stony Kill Manor House
Stony Kill to take message
about environmentA • ~
fly Nathan Dykeman
Journal stuff writ,,
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viruieutal r.;css.1:-o to sl ho,l
chi!urcn r, one of ti c main g�_� il' at
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I'rai,k Knight says
Some of the prug;rarns lu be
presented by the stony Bill staff
will take place in schools in the
area, and others al Stony Kill
itself, lie sold.
..W'e'll do something indoors
and something uutducxs," he said,
cxplaininKThat cisils arc platmed
to WappIogc, I , i;eacon and
N cw bu rgh sr hoo l,, and perhaps
other., wtthm a 50 111 radina of
tiro 7:iti acre state Department of
I-IIvitonmental nrVatIuII
facility off Rout, 9D.
"We 111tu1 hese flexibi lits.
Knight said, – eacinng the
children or the teachers. ' In the
latter way, he Said more children
eventunlly'xill be reaclurd.
lnL&,,lpragtams, wherever
tutglll, btuulil be f,illuwad up out-
douts, L,tlu.r at the school ur at
Jt::any fill,
In kddrtlull to programming
with x!wols ter mind. Stony KA1,
�,hirh fret i!!y has a full stall, will
pot oil prugi ams for Ili,, general
public– something which has been
going ori to a certain extent—aud
programa for special interest
groups like skiers rod and gun
Club members, bird watchers,
Future Farmcrs of Aroerica and
Boy and G tri Scouts.
Dir,clm Knight and h1s. Jean
Holloway, senior i:onser%ution
educator, assist:,nt director and
program director, sounded very
optimistic as they spore of short-
range and lung-rargc plans for the
lurgc _,tale f—lhiy, which was
alr:r;r.;t doomed a year ago by lack
of funds.
Both have had extensive ex-
peticnce in nahire work and both
;:ro yut.lih,d as teachers, Knight
having taught Ili New Jersey in
the public school systau and at
College.
Knight told of a desire to recruit
vulunte¢ls to help at Stony Kill, of
plait, to get the farm program
under way this year under the
guidance of harm manager
Herbert Eschbach and of the
necoasity of reaching people,
studrnt9, the general public,
young and old.
Knight said so-called family
programs for the public include
night walks, which already have
been conducted by lire Stony Kill
staff, a possible marsh program
at Constitution Island near Cold
Spring, and a possible geology
program in the Hudson Highlands.
Another possibility would be s
demonstration program on the
Stony Kill farm area giving tht
public an idea how a modern farn
operates.
See Stony Kill, page 12
Kn)g1I1 Nal,..
Although Knight never worked for
the DEC before being hired last
month for the director's job, he has
been receiving government pay in
most of his career in nature and en-
vironment. His most recent position
was as director of the Flat Rock
Brook Nature Center in Englewood,
N. J., not far from the George
Washington Bridge.
"Almost all my career I've been
paid by a public agency," he said, ad-
ding that the one exception was the
New York Botanical Gardens in the
Bronx.
Other positions have been at
Stockton State College in southern
New Jersey and at a nature center in
Westchester County where he was
paid by the Village of Scarsdale and
the City of Rve.
A native of Pennsylvania, he grew
up in Corning, (N.Y.). He received
his bachelor of science degree at the
College of Agriculture at Cornell
University, and later obtained a
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pinger at this time last yeal..