Tony Ingraham, owner, Owl Gorge Productions
For twenty-four years, I was in charge of environmental education in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State Parks, working from the regional office
at Taughannock Falls State Park in Trumansburg, N.Y. I developed interpretive and educational programs and media for the public in most of the Finger Lakes facilities, including Watkins Glen State Park. I hired, trained, and supervised seasonal guides. I led countless visitors through the glen, including tour groups and school groups, interpreting the natural and cultural history of the gorge. I also developed a slide show about the park for the people staying in the campground and a trail guide leaflet for visitors. At the end of my tenure, I created the system of outdoor exhibits that are now in place along the trails and at trail entrances and junctions.
In 2008, my wife, Liz Bauman, and I created Owl Gorge Productions in Ithaca, N.Y. and published A Walk through Watkins Glen: Water's Sculpture in Stone. In 2009, we wrote and published Ithaca: the City, Gorges, and Colleges. In 2009, the Watkins book won first place in the small book category in the media awards competition of the National Association for Interpretation, the premier professional association for park naturalists and others who interpret our natural and cultural heritage to the public. Both books have sold well. The Ithaca book is currently sold out and out of print, though some stores in Ithaca may still have copies for sale (e.g., Autumn Leaves, Buffalo Street Books, Mayer's). But we have republished it in an electronic form that you can download inexpensively!
In addition to book publishing, I maintain a blog called Walk in the Park. And I produce a weekly television show, also called Walk in the Park, on Ithaca, NY's public access cable channel 13. Look on my blog for show topics and times and to view episodes online!
at Taughannock Falls State Park in Trumansburg, N.Y. I developed interpretive and educational programs and media for the public in most of the Finger Lakes facilities, including Watkins Glen State Park. I hired, trained, and supervised seasonal guides. I led countless visitors through the glen, including tour groups and school groups, interpreting the natural and cultural history of the gorge. I also developed a slide show about the park for the people staying in the campground and a trail guide leaflet for visitors. At the end of my tenure, I created the system of outdoor exhibits that are now in place along the trails and at trail entrances and junctions.
In 2008, my wife, Liz Bauman, and I created Owl Gorge Productions in Ithaca, N.Y. and published A Walk through Watkins Glen: Water's Sculpture in Stone. In 2009, we wrote and published Ithaca: the City, Gorges, and Colleges. In 2009, the Watkins book won first place in the small book category in the media awards competition of the National Association for Interpretation, the premier professional association for park naturalists and others who interpret our natural and cultural heritage to the public. Both books have sold well. The Ithaca book is currently sold out and out of print, though some stores in Ithaca may still have copies for sale (e.g., Autumn Leaves, Buffalo Street Books, Mayer's). But we have republished it in an electronic form that you can download inexpensively!
In addition to book publishing, I maintain a blog called Walk in the Park. And I produce a weekly television show, also called Walk in the Park, on Ithaca, NY's public access cable channel 13. Look on my blog for show topics and times and to view episodes online!
Liz Bauman, co-author of Ithaca—the City, Gorges, and Colleges
Liz Bauman was first awed by Ithaca when she visited Cornell University in her junior year of high school. She attended Cornell and loved her student years there, including working on the Cornell Daily Sun. At graduation, she promised herself she would return someday to live in Ithaca.
After earning a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri and working as a newspaper photographer in Passaic, N.J., Bauman returned to Ithaca. She spent more than 30 years as an editor at Cornell, first directing the Cooperative Extension News Services and then producing magazines, viewbooks, and displays.
Today, she is a freelance writer/editor and volunteer for the SPCA of Tompkins County. After living many years in the city of Ithaca, Bauman now resides in the town of Ithaca with Ingraham and their cats, Tux and Nellie.
After earning a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri and working as a newspaper photographer in Passaic, N.J., Bauman returned to Ithaca. She spent more than 30 years as an editor at Cornell, first directing the Cooperative Extension News Services and then producing magazines, viewbooks, and displays.
Today, she is a freelance writer/editor and volunteer for the SPCA of Tompkins County. After living many years in the city of Ithaca, Bauman now resides in the town of Ithaca with Ingraham and their cats, Tux and Nellie.
