In reply to The girls bunks were Seneca, by Barbara Doron. AJYB 37:257; EJ; Gruening, Ernest. Camp Moodna was a wonderful experience for me. There were honor awards for being a good camper. It is a private recreational park for the surrounding communities used for fishing, swimming, paddle Barrier after barrier, this scientific duo determines which dams on Hudson River tributaries still provide services, such as water supply, recreation, or hydroelectric power, and those which no longer serve any meaningful function. There was a rock in the middle called "the saddle"(I think that was the name) where a counselor was assigned to sit on it, watching the kids. The next was Tonkawa/Wasabe. JWA has forwarded your message to Ms. Melnick (Plutchok). The Hudson River is a federal Superfund site spanning almost 200 miles from Hudson Falls in the north to the Battery in New York City. That was a summer of many fond memories. Thanks! I had my first boyfriend and i recently found a letter he wrote me. The data Rosman and Alderson are collecting help support other programs as well. I have fond memories of hot chocolate in the Rec Hall, learning to swim in the pool, and making pizza out of american cheese, tomato sauce, and white bread (bleh to the pizza, but great memory anyway :-)). In addition, water from Silver Stream Reservoir (also known as Brown’s Pond), located in the adjacent Moodna Creek watershed, is diverted into the Quassaick Creek watershed at Washington Lake. I met my husband there and although Mrs. T told us to stop seeing each other, that our flame would go out by August, we are here to report that she was wrong. Moodna Creek is a small tributary of the Hudson River that drains eastern Orange County, New York. Browns pond, in the town of new Windsor in orange County, new York, USA, is the smaller of the two reservoirs for the nearby city of Newburgh. So glad my parents sent me there! Earl Reservoir (ER) is located in Highland Mills New York and is part of the Moodna Creek Watershed. Plum Point/Sloop Hill Unique Area: This small park sits at the mouth of Moodna Creek in New Windsor, NY. I listed the length of the run as 6.5. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. During the 1920s and 1930s, the settlement organized children’s social clubs, offered child care for working parents, and provided showers for community residents whose homes had no running water. I am now 59. Hey Gang:  I went to Camp Moodna around about the same time as some of you. I think i still have my award, (the "M" award). The scientists were scouting this particular creek for features they had spotted in satellite imagery. Read Riverkeeper’s 2019 data report for the Rondout Creek Watershed. They were rescued by soldiers from West Point, who came with amphibious vehicles and got them from the mess hall to Route 32. It is approximately 14 acres and is surrounded by residential neighborhoods. I cannot remember many full names, mostly first names. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. By 1916, Madison House was serving more people on the Lower East Side than it could easily accommodate. People fish and launch boats here. A man-made dam is located upstream of the photo some distance away. I was extremely upset when it ended after 1968. I made many friends but I remember one girl named Goldie. These projects will help make up for the decades when people were either not allowed to fish or retain catches along portions of the Hudson River and were advised against eating its highly polluted fish. MOODNA CREEK WATERSHED INTERMUNICIPAL COUNCIL SCIENCE AND DATA COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES MARCH 30, 2012 Attendees Jay Beaumont, Kelly Dobbins, Jim Mullany, Neal Halloran, Ed Butler, Sheila McGroddy, Dick Manley, Michael Grant from Orange and Rockland, and John Mickelson and Simon Gruber via telephone. 9W to Plum Point. Copyright © 1998–2021, Jewish Women's Archive. I took a hike into the forest and found the Handball court still there as well as foundations and stairs to the bunks. In October 2014, they shared information about their database of fish barriers at a workshop co-hosted by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEC) water, dam safety, and estuary programs. We put on plays that i completely enjoyed. She did … Continue reading "Moodna Creek" Posted on February 29, 2012. Rose Gruening was born in New York City in 1876 to Rose (Fridenberg) and Emil Gruening, a well-known eye and ear specialist. (See it on a map here.) I attended Camp Moodna for five summers in the late 1940's; they were the happiest summers of my life. Dams and improperly sized or installed culverts have prevented important migratory fish, such as American shad and river herring, from swimming further upstream to spawn, as well as reducing the passage of the historically far-reaching American eel. We are in the process of planning a dog park, splash park for children, bocce ball, basketball, handball and pickleball courts, walking trails and an Audubon trail. It was a great experience. Did the Camp have a large Lake & on the other side of the Lake their was another Camp that Mother's would stay at with a younger Child if had one, & older Children stayed on Camp Moodna for I think 3 Weeks. I remember getting the T award and 2 stars and still have them in my possession....Those were the best summers.. We are home to multiple parks, playgrounds and fields, within walking distance from your home. The neighborhood surrounds the Beaver Dam Lake, and borders Moodna Creek and Schunnemunk Mountain State Park. Located about 50 miles north of New York City on the western shore of the Hudson River, Cornwall has become a bedroom community for New York City. (NOAA), Left: Debris clogs the passage of the brook beneath a stone bridge on Indian Brook near Cold Spring, New York. Our first blog post contained two hikes at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and our second post was our adventure up Mt. 15 minute walk to NJ Transit commuter train located in award-winning Cornwall School District & its charming town on the Hudson. Cornwall is a town in Orange County, New York, USA.As of the 2010 census, the population was at 12,646. Clune, Erin Elizabeth. I have very fond memories. As a member of the Storm King Mountain Art Center I am apprised of plans. It's just a block from the train station, and is also close to Chase Bank, ShopRite grocers and Kmart. Schunemonk Mountain is likewise the property of Storm King Art Center. She survived the war in Germany From ages 2 to 5 living in a loving friends house. It was the winter so we didn't explore. At September 23, 2018 at 10:57 AM , … Although Gruening never liked this title, it attests to her significance in the eyes of many people. There are many swimming holes and fishing areas along the Rondout and its tributaries, including some Hudson Valley favorites. The nuns make everyone who attends the school take swimming lessons, so Carole spent some time in the pool also. In reply to

I remember the East by Peggy Taylor. And it had great programs for the kids. Already, their efforts have helped communicate the potential for habitat restoration in the region. I also had a bunkmate named Ira, I think Ira Feldman. We went swimming in the creek, rock climbing on the other side of the dam, hiking up what we thought was the real Mohawk trail. English sea explorer Henry Hudson arrived in the Cornwall area in 1609, navigating as far up the river as present-day Albany. It was a wonderful camp in a beautiful part of the Poconos where you could look out and see the Delaware Water Gap. I remember going to Camp Moodna in Stroudsburg, PA when I was a Child. Four years later, young Rose’s father married his late wife’s sister Phebe and with her raised four more children: Clara, Marie, Martha, and Ernest. The girls bunks were Seneca, Mohegan, Tonkowa, Wasabe and Wakanda, Weyon. Beginning in the late 1940s, two General Electric (GE) capacitor manufacturing plants in Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, New York, released industrial chemicals known as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) into the Hudson River environment over several decades. I attended Camp Moodna in 1967 and 1968 and loved it. I am one of the owners of the propery up the hill that we always thought was Camp Moodna and for the first time am seeing Camp Gruening. For me Camp Moodna was a bit of heaven, having grown up on Cannon St where a tree was a rarity. I was 5 , yet I still recall how my brother lost everything in the flood.. MY OPINION THEY KNOW LEGOLAND HAS INTRODUCED TURBIDTY TO OTTERKILL CREEK. We laughed a lot while we put on plays, swam in the lake, did arts and crafts, and gave out the much coveted T awards. Accounts of Gruening’s early career suggest that she first became interested in social work after college, when she visited an Ethical Culture School summer camp for poor children. My Grandfather on Oliver, then Stanton then 109th Street in Manhattan. The greatest time was when the bues pulled up in front of the Grand St Settlement to take us to Mountainville and wonderful Camp Moodna. my family is trying to find out about Camp Moodna, my Uncle went there I believe in the 1940s and carved a totem pole, he became a reknowned sculptor attended Art Students League apprenticed with Jacque Lipschitz etc we'd like to know if the totem pole is still standing or what became of it, his name is Sol Lefkowitz. I wanted to be a counselor there but i think it closed in the late 60's. The Esopus Creek upstream of Ashokan Reservoir is one of the most popu-lar trout streams in the Catskills. We have been married for 51 years and counting. NOAA scientists Lisa Rosman and Carl Alderson are investigating dams and other structures that are potentially preventing fish from migrating up these waterways. I lived on Cannon Street also, went to Camp Moodna too. While the Gruenings subsequently moved their family home uptown to 57th Street, Rose Gruening began to focus her professional interests even farther downtown, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. . Cornwall has become a bedroom community for area towns and cities including New York City. Misc Kayaking Trips. I believe the campers gathered around it. We were so sorry to see Camp Moodna come to an end. I remember the Bunks, the Lake, and the Socials, the Canteen. I loved it. Once the Depression and the New Deal transformed the workings of social welfare in the United States, the social service concept as practiced by Gruening and her contemporaries changed dramatically. We were good friends. What a legacy of social work, community work, the arts, and education came out of these settlement houses. I stopped going in 1962.. My parents and Brother were holocaust survivors and had only been in the country a couple of years.. I remember there was only the lake to swim in but then they built a beautiful pool. I remember sitting around the lake singing camp songs, playing tennis, going on camp outs, going into the woods and playing with salamanders, walking up the hill to eat in the dining hall, going to the canteen, swimming in the pool (although the first year I was there, I was running around the pool and had to be taken to the hospital to be given stitches in my head). Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening (1973); Obituary. In The "Poconos". The old mess hall and wreck hall can be made out by the floors that remain in each building. i went to Camp Moodna from 1960-1965 (?). She called it Camp Moodna. Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.. The train began operating over the Moodna Creek in 1909 by the Erie & Jersey Railroad. Part of the Appalachian Mountains, this park is a sample of the long twists and bends that define this long range from Maine to Georgia. Rosman and Alderson are investigating potential habitat restoration opportunities along 69 tributaries to the Hudson River estuary. The property we own is for sale. Put in, take Rt 32 to a five corner intersection, make a right on Rte 94 East at next traffic lite make right onto Rte 74, drive over the Moodna and then park on the left. I was a camper there when I was 9 thru about 14 in the early to late 1960's. When I have time I will come back her and check to see if anyone remembers. So, the question for the team remained: Could migrating fish navigate past what was left of this dam? He used to sing "Blue Moon". NOAA and other government agencies prioritize removing or updating the barriers that provide the best opportunities for habitat improvement and fish passage. I remember the totem pole.

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