At an event on Sept 16th, we will work with the community to remove stumps of fallen trees and plant gardens at the Alice Austen Park.
Leader
Sara Signorelli
Location
2 Hylan Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10305
Impact areas
The project will restore the Victorian garden at the Alice Austen Park through an educational fundraising event for families to come to the park for a lecture and environmental craft activity taking place on Sept 16th, 2012. We will remove the tree stumps of the fallen trees left from the storms over the years. The tree stumps are an eye sore for the Alice Austen Park and dangerous for kids, senior citizens and pets. We will increase the beauty of the park by creating a small garden in the spots of the stumps.
-Ask our local vendors for donations or sponsor to our project event for the community. We would need plants for our proposed plant sale. Have snacks and baked goods prepared for the attendees to purchase.
-Hire a speaker for our event to speak about plants and planting your own gardens. The speaker will present a 30-45 minute presentation relating to Alice Austen’s gardens and Austen photos will be shown of her garden. Show attendees how and where the tree stumps will be removed and where we plan to plant the garden.
-Craft / Planting activity for children, with a plant to take home!
-After stump removal, have a follow up Volunteer event (attendees are welcome to participate) to demonstrate and create the actual gardens within the spots of the fallen trees with ongoing participation of maintaining those areas.
The Alice Austen House Museum promotes public awareness and scholarly study of the life, work, and times of Alice Austen (1866 – 1952). Austen was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. In the early 1960s a group of concerned citizens joined together with the purpose of saving Austen’s family home, Clear Comfort. Located within a luscious park overlooking the New York Narrows, it has a stunning panoramic view of lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Verrazano Bridge. By the end of the decade the group had succeeded and the House was declared a National Historic Landmark. In 1985 it opened to the public.
Over the years the Alice Austen Park has been damaged from several storms. We would like to restore our Park back to the Victorian garden it once was. We hope to raise funds to support the removal of the fallen tree stumps and create gardens in those spaces. From the removal of these stumps we hope it will be a more inviting site for visitors to participate in more activities at the museum.
