tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post2553632290528801160..comments2024-03-28T14:27:01.467-04:00Comments on MOLOVINSKY ON ALLENTOWN: Robin Hood Dam Reprievemichael molovinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-22383802738894559182013-08-08T16:54:31.127-04:002013-08-08T16:54:31.127-04:00@4:29, he did support such a place, it was the tre...@4:29, he did support such a place, it was the trexler game preserve. as for the parks, he hired landscape architects,because he didn't want unkempt wildlands. his first park, west park, was very manicured. He had lehigh parkway designed with meadows and ponds, created by dams. trexler park, which was his own private estate, testifies to the fact that he was indeed into the refined english look. i was glad to host your point of view, but it's revisionism. It is not what trexler wanted, or how the park system was when created. i spent my youth in those parks, and the history of the parks is well documented. you will have to place your future comments on some wildland blog, but this isn't it.michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-23816594633625740872013-08-08T16:29:45.912-04:002013-08-08T16:29:45.912-04:00A great naturalist---agreed. He would support a ma...A great naturalist---agreed. He would support a management style that would,at least in part, support a place for birds,butterflies and other lovely creatures. The General did not want the place to look like a golf course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-9082564996824688782013-08-08T09:41:34.926-04:002013-08-08T09:41:34.926-04:00Thanks for the background.
My thought is that the...Thanks for the background.<br /><br />My thought is that there may have been an environmental reason they were installed. <br /><br />I know the General was a great naturalist. I'll put my trust in his judgement over the grant-motivated Wildlands people any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-6944077153756578082013-08-08T08:51:03.159-04:002013-08-08T08:51:03.159-04:00@8:29, me efforts were only directed at robin hoo...@8:29, me efforts were only directed at robin hood. the dam in jordan park has already down, and it's unclear to me if dougherty put a hold on the fish hatchery or not. i did get him to confirm the hold on robin hood for the record.<br /><br />to my knowledge the robin hood dam dates to 1941, when the bridge was built, as perhaps the last wpa project in allentown. it replaced what was referred to as a <i>cow bridge</i>. there was a diary farm at the far end of the parking lot. i'll guess that the fish hatchery dam dates back to the hatchery, which was a general trexler project, but i've done no research on that one.michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-16376817856477147722013-08-08T08:29:04.706-04:002013-08-08T08:29:04.706-04:00Is Robin Hood the only dam getting a reprieve? Wi...Is Robin Hood the only dam getting a reprieve? Will Wildlands be removing any other dams in Allentown before the public has a chance to weigh in?<br /><br />I'd like to see the dam upstream from the Fish Hatchery spared. <br /><br />Is there any history on why the "dams" were originally built?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-83497727421845548292013-08-08T08:04:09.577-04:002013-08-08T08:04:09.577-04:00Guess they destroy the bridge and then say you wer...Guess they destroy the bridge and then say you were right. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com