Welcome to you all: To the Merritts, Nelson, his daughters Susan, Nancy, and Debra, to Tom & Hannah Treuer and John & Carly Matroienni. I hope to introduce you to some of the folks that were able to be here today that have been involved in GOSA, and who have done so much to transform [...]
A beautiful summer/fall day on Monday, October 10, 2011 with temperatures in the high 70’s greeted the 39 guests plus some young neighborhood boys and several wild turkeys. We gathered in a circle of chairs to celebrate Mary Cory Merritt’s life.
After nine years as editor of Gosaonline.org, I am stepping aside on Aug. 1, 2011, in order to make time for some long-deferred personal projects. It has been a privilege to provide information to readers about preservation of open space and other land-use issues. People who know and care about these matters are necessary for [...]
GROTON — The GOSA website has posted a 1,500-word article by Nelson Merritt about the Fort Hill Farm where he grew up, a 75-acre portion of which now is The Merritt Family Forest. Also added to the website is a newspaper article describing Mr. Merritt’s remarkable post-farm career as an engineer with significant achievements in [...]
LISBON, CONNECTICUT — Syma Ebbin, a director of the Groton Open Space Association, has won one of seven awards presented in October by the Eastern Connecticut Conservation District, a non-profit soil and water conservation organization serving 36 communities. The awards, made at an annual meeting Oct. 13, 2010, recognized “outstanding volunteers and special partnership relationships,” [...]
GROTON — The prize-winning naturalist and illustrator David Carroll, who learned to love turtles in a now-vanished swamp of Groton, showed GOSA members around still-rich New Hampshire habitats in a photo-illustrated lecture at the GOSA annual meeting Oct. 15, 2009. Mr. Carroll was introduced by GOSA Director Edith Fairgrieve, who said his “presence this [...]
GROTON — The following report by GOSA President Joan Smith was read at the Oct. 15, 2009, annual membership meeting by Sidney Van Zandt, vice president: I am sorry to miss this important meeting and the opportunity to talk with you in person. Regrettably, I was not able to change an itinerary that had [...]
GROTON — The Groton Open Space Association annual membership meeting Oct. 15, 2009 unanimously elected Joan Smith to the organization’s presidency and Sidney Van Zandt to the new office of vice president. In addition, three new directors were elected. Award-winning naturalist David Carroll was guest speaker at the meeting in the Latham Chester store, which [...]
GROTON — Joan Smith, a longstanding director of the Groton Open Space Association, was elected GOSA’s president pro tem at a meeting of directors July 8, 2009. No other candidates stood for election, and the vote for Ms. Smith was unanimous. Ms. Smith steps into the job following the death of President Priscilla W. Pratt [...]
by Joan Smith It was a sad day, but a beautiful day, the day Priscilla left us. We will miss her terribly. Yet we know she had a good life right up to the very end. She led a well-examined life, blessed by good friends and family, and she was committed to the welfare [...]
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