The Pomerene Center has invited Byron Harrison (RHS '97) and Jim McKnight and the community to an open public meeting to help design a space we will all use.
July/11/2009
10a-noon or 2-4p
at the Civic Hall, Main Street Coshocton
10a-noon or 2-4p
at the Civic Hall, Main Street Coshocton
Check out the comments that have been coming in and add your own ideas. The question is "What would bring YOU into this space? "
7 comments:
Following is an e-mail discussion thread between Teresa Bradford
Dorothy Skowrunski, Jerry Stenner, Donna Meyers and Anne Cornell. We thought it was important to share publicly. Please add your comments to the discussion!
Hello Ann, Dorothy, Jerry and Donna,
Just received the information looking for ideas for the Old Park Hotel Lot –
What a wonderful place to put a Rain Garden –We can come up with pictures of rain gardens if anyone has interest.
The City of Coshocton is in the process of implementing a Storm Water Management Plan with Ohio EPA and a rain garden in the middle of the city would be a great educational tool while at the same time providing the city with green space and beautiful plants.
We may even be able to find some Grant Dollars to accomplish this task.
And from there -- City School Students could use this as an Educational Tool –
This is right in their curriculum for state testing.
This site could turn into a Great Educational Tool and a Conservation Rain Garden
For our community to be proud of!!
Any interest or questions, please give our office a call.
Teresa Bradford
District Administrator
Coshocton Soil and Water Conservation District
724 S. Seventh Street
Coshocton, OH 43812
(740) 622-8087 x4
Fax: (740) 622-7047
teresabradford@coshoctoncounty.net
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to Teresa, acornell, s-sdirector, lead
What a terrific idea.....Rotary may be interested in this type of project if it addresses a long term timeline....Anne...how would Jerry react?
Dorothy M. Skowrunski
Coshocton Campus Administrator
200 North Whitewoman Street
Coshocton, Ohio 43812
740-622-1408
740-623-2957 fax
dskowrun@cotc.edu
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to Teresa, acornell, Dorothy, lead
Teresa, I think this is a great idea especially if there are grants to fund it. This certainly goes along with our desire to educate our youth so that the next generation will continue to "green-up" our community for the future.
Jerry Stenner
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to Teresa, Dorothy, s-sdirector, lead
Bravo! This is so exciting. Amy Taylor will be at the meeting on Saturday and has talked about a garden/education component to the PARK. Another person to give the project breadth and heft.
We will be working with artist Amy M. Youngs in August. She is a biology/technology artist, teaches at Ohio State and is leaving Friday for Portugal to work on an outdoor hydroponic piece. Which is to say we seemingly have great human resources lining up! I'm very excited.
Teresa et al, hope you can come to one of the meetings on Saturday to present and perhaps put some definition to the possibilities presented here.
Anne
Hello Anne,
Per our conversation today July 8th via phone in regard to the old Park Hotel open space:
Bistro tables and seating, beverages, box lunches
Canvas tarp shading
More green space
Quiet area
Interactive area
Wi-Fi
Lawn games
Acoustic music
Songwriter showcases
Ambient music- nature sounds (park like atmosphere) to lessen urban/traffic noise
Art tables, work space for classes.
I would use this space for lunch meetings M-F 11-2pm
I would use the space on weekends as a recreation and entertainment venue. Sat-Sun
I would plan a picnic with friends.
I would eat lunch with a co-worker M-F.
I would read a book, surf the Internet.
I would listen to music. (weekends)
I would love to view art. Possibly an art exhibit space-permanent or art sale/showcases on Saturdays.
I would love to take a painting class in the space.
I would love to do a mosaic tile trivet in the space.
Possibly contracting with local restaurants to provide box lunches, a box lunch music series (model after Dogwood Festival- no need to re-invent the wheel!), access to electric for mics and sound for songwriter showcases, game night for the community, quiet area to read, interactive area for youth.
Let's talk again after the July 11th meeting. I am sorry that I will be out of town and can not attend in person.
Best,
Andrea Schweitzer
Anne,
Unfortunately, we have an out of town wedding this Saturday, so we won't be able to come to the meeting regarding the Park Hotel space. I haven't forgotten about the possibility of doing early morning Chi classes. Maybe you could mention this and see if there is any interest. Here's what I'm thinking:
Early Bird Chi, one or two mornings a week, Tuesday and Thursday? about 7:30?
In China, people gather in parks to do Tai Chi/Qigong before work each morning.
Great way to start the day, centered, relaxed, energized in body-mind-spirit.
The idea behind Tai Chi and Qigong is the cultivation of energy. We are energetic beings--we gather energy from the environment and disperse energy back into the environment. By holding these classes in that space we can help generate new energy, as well as gather energy from the space itself. As I shared with you that day in the library, when I went and stood in the space, I had the feeling of being in an open-air cathedral. When you drive by, you see a ruin. When you get out of your car and step onto the grass, it becomes a place of beauty.
I read the following on someone's blog. The writer is speaking of Mary Oliver's poetry, which I often use as a focal point for my chi classes (see poem below): Virtually everyone knows that in a poem a field of grass is never just a section of earth, for it is the nature of poetry to shape symbols and transplant images, but in Oliver’s work, it becomes a cathedral.
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
~Mary Oliver
These are just some of my thoughts . . .
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