[Bristol-Birds] BBC crowd enjoys delicious banquet and interesting speaker
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- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:40:16 -0400
BBC Banquet table October 2014.jpg
A turnout of about 20 birders enjoyed a delicious dinner and a fun speaker
Friday evening for the Bristol Bird Club Annual Banquet at Bluff City, TN.
Ranger Seven Islands State Birding Park.jpgJustine Cucchiara, who also has
the title
of manager of Tennessee's newest state park
and first birding park, delighted the crowd
with a fun and informative PowerPoint
presentation about the 425-acre park
located on the French Broad River 18 miles
east of Knoxville and southwest of I-40
Exit 407 (Sevierville exit where Bass Pro
Shop is located).
A native of Long Island, NY, she told birders
the park is less than 2 hours from Northeast
Tennessee and is a former nearly-abandoned farm that was overgrown but
now in a full state of management by the Tennessee State Parks.
Among the more surprising persons attending were Lorraine Hale who
was able to come for the dinner portion and was brought by one of her
three granddaughters. Author Kathleen Britts and Jenny Connors, BBC
members from Fairfax Station in Northern Virginia, are visiting their
family farm in Shady Valley.
The new birding state park manager was most sincere with her invitation
for birders to visit the park. She made it abundantly clear that she wanted
to hear from the public and birders about how to best manage the park
and what people enjoyed. She said she also wanted to clearly know what
people do not enjoy. And also what they never want to see done at the park.
That statement of public solicitation is almost shocking in a time when park
managers and programmers will hide behind the nearest tree to avoid being
asked or told much of anything. Whenever one is caught face-to-face
with hearing public opinions, the most frequent response is your idea is
nothing
new and they have already figured out why it is not possible or they have
long ago planned to do it someday in the future.
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