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Project: June 3-10, 2012
Cost: $550/person
Host: Long Island University- C.W. Post and Brooklyn Campuses
Contact: Dr. Joan Digby or
Dr. James Clarke
Registration Deadline: April 10, 2012
This exciting program will explore sites as varied as the rugged National Seashore on Long Island to National parks and National Historic landmarks in New York City. The Long Island segment will include hiking and camping on Fire Island, sailing aboard a 19th century oyster sloop, and a behind the scenes visit to Sagamore Hill, the summer home of President Theodore Roosevelt. The New York City segment will include several NPS sites, among them Liberty and Ellis Islands, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Participants will visit America’s first public park, Central Park, and contrast it with NYC’s most recent park developments in Brooklyn and Manhattan’s Meatpacking District: Brooklyn Bridge Park and the High Line, respectively. An important focus will be the connection between New York City as a port and its complex history of immigration. This week long seminar will include workshops on field biology and photography, readings and discussions of literature and history. Participants can expect an evening on your own in the Big Apple.
Accomodations: DORMITORY HOUSING (one camp)
Food Prep: ASSISTED/PURCHASED
Phys. Demands: MODERATE
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site-
NPS web site
Fire Island National Seashore - NPS web site
Ellis Island National Monument - NPS web
site
Lower East Side Tenement Museum - NPS web site
African Burial Ground - NPS web site
