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Today’s show is a re-broadcast of my interview with Lesley Doyel, the president of the Roeliff Jansen Historical Society. Their 2025 SUMMER EXHIBITION: 'SITES TO CELEBRATE - LOCAL HISTORY REVISITED" is happening right now through October, and the interview from 2023 touches topics related to the event, in addition to of course many birdy stories.

Lesley’s kind and loving observations of wildlife in her backyards remind us to appreciate the here and now. The here and now is also the culmination of people’s lives before us. Lesley shares how the New Deal-era environmental improvement program restored the trees we see now in Copake Falls. The trees had been devastated by Copake Iron Works, an iron extraction and production operation that played a crucial role in local development.

Roeliff Jansen Historical Society www.roeliffjansenhs.org

This interview was recorded on November 20, 2023, and originally broadcasted on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7FM on November 25, 2023.

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