Jamestown News

At the August 31 meeting of the Rotary Club of Jamestown, Rotarian Mark Baldwin, formerly a longtime educator at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, spoke about Roger Tory Peterson and how various locations throughout Jamestown laid the foundation for Peterson's life's work as the most prominent American nature educator of the 20th Century. Baldwin spoke about  several locations throughout Jamestown that were important to Peterson's life, including Peterson's boyhood home on Bowen Street; the reservoir at the top of Swede Hill; the 100 Acre Lot on Curtis Street Extension; and Lakeview Cemetery. 

 

Pictured are, from left, Ardy Baldwin; her husband and Rotarian Mark Baldwin; Joni Blackman, Rotarian and executive director of the Fenton History Center; and Gary Padak, the vice president of the Rotary Club of Jamestown.