Pegasys Community Media Center Ithaca

09/14/2025

“The Falls of Taughannock,”
Episode 229 of Walk in the Park, online and on Ithaca TV channel 13 (both on cable and on the Spectrum TV app). Watch this episode anytime, anywhere via https://www.fingerlakes.org/events/the-falls-of-taughannock-2
Or, watch this episode on Ithaca channel 13 at the following times:
Sunday, September 14, at 9:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

2025 is the 100th anniversary of the creation of Taughannock Falls State Park, and it was one of the first parks founded under the leadership of Robert Treman, first chairman of the Finger Lakes State Parks Commission. However, Taughannock Falls has been an attraction for much longer.

Tourists have been traveling to see Taughannock Falls since the 1850s. In this encore episode of Walk in the Park from 2019, we look at the Falls through the words of Lewis Halsey in 1866, in his little book, "The Falls of Taughannock."

Walk in the Park is a half-hour Ithaca NY public access TV series shown on local channel 13, produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, http://Owlgorge.com, a Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance partner. See more episodes at https://walkinthepark.tv.

09/11/2025

1866

“The Falls of Taughannock,”
Episode 229 of Walk in the Park, online and on Ithaca TV channel 13 (both on cable and on the Spectrum TV app). Watch this episode anytime, anywhere via https://www.fingerlakes.org/events/the-falls-of-taughannock-2
Or, watch this episode on Ithaca channel 13 at the times below:

Thursday, September.11, at 9:00 p.m.
Friday, at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, at 9:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 14, at 9:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

2025 is the 100th anniversary of the creation of Taughannock Falls State Park, and it was one of the first parks founded under the leadership of Robert Treman, first chairman of the Finger Lakes State Parks Commission. However, Taughannock Falls has been an attraction for much longer.

Tourists have been traveling to see Taughannock Falls since the 1850s. In this encore episode of Walk in the Park from 2019, we look at the Falls through the words of Lewis Halsey in 1866, in his little book, "The Falls of Taughannock."

Photograph: View of the falls from the grounds of the Taughannock House hotel, that preceded today’s Falls Overlook and visitor information center.

Walk in the Park is a half-hour Ithaca NY public access TV series shown on local channel 13, produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, http://Owlgorge.com, a Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance partner. See more episodes at https://walkinthepark.tv.

09/10/2025

https://www.fingerlakes.org/events/the-falls-of-taughannock-2

Early history of Taughannock Falls in Tompkins County, near Trumansburg and Ithaca, NY, and Cayuga Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes.

08/31/2025

08/30/2025

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08/23/2025

James Hope was a Hudson River School painter who was the resident artist at the 19th century scenic resort that later became Watkins Glen State Park.

08/22/2025

“Hope Returns to Antietam,”
Episode 225;of Walk in the Park, online and on Ithaca cable channel 13. Watch this episode and Part 1 anytime, anywhere at https://vimeo.com/359610514?share=copy or watch this episode on Ithaca channel 13 at the following times:

Thursday, August 21, at 9 p.m.
Friday, 3 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, August 24, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
This schedule repeats next week.

Captain James Hope was resident landscape artist at Watkins Glen, NY, on the brim of the gorge that is now Watkins Glen State Park, from 1872 until his death in 1892. He was best known, however, for his mural paintings of the 1862 Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War. His murals were kept in his family's gallery at Watkins Glen until a 1935 flood damaged them and other paintings. The murals were mounted in an old church under poor conditions until 1979, when the National Park Service obtained and restored the works of art and installed them in an exhibit hall at the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland.

In this episode (225) of Walk in the Park from 2019, we look at James Hope's 19th century art gallery, some of his landscape paintings from the Glen, and then visit Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland to see his famous murals that tell the story of this terrible battle.

This episode of Walk in the Park was originally produced on September 11, 2019, the anniversary of that terrible day in 2001. Consequently, the first part of the show includes a short video about how many people sought the healing power of nature in parks immediately following that mass tragedy.

Walk in the Park is a public access television series produced for PEGASYS Studio of Spectrum TV in Ithaca, NY by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com. Watch other episodes of Walk in the Park at https://walkinthepark.tv.

08/17/2025