From Yvonne_Federowicz at brown.edu Tue Jul 15 13:31:20 2008 From: Yvonne_Federowicz at brown.edu (Federowicz, Yvonne Marie) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:31:20 -0400 Subject: [MassChestnutNews] The Summer MA-TACF Board Meeting & Cookout Sunday July 20th 12:30 pm Message-ID: Greetings Fellow Chestnuteers, The Summer Board Meeting of the Mass. Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation will be held Sunday, July 20th from 1pm to 4 pm (cookout at 12:30) at Moore State Park in Paxton, MA . All members are welcome! Cookout starts at 12:30. Moore State Park is a beautiful location and has a well-established chestnut orchard, so members can enjoy the location and seeing our work in progress. Moore also has lovely plantings, hiking trails and a historic stone sawmill. Directions at the parks website - http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/more.htm We will be having a cookout at lunchtime as a opportunity to welcome visitors and to say goodbye to Leila Pinchot. Several people stepped up at the April Board meeting to bring somthing to make the cookout happen ( food beverages salad, a grill etc.) Let me know who you are!! Jamie will bring Hamburgers and Buns. Guy will bring sausages. Yvonne will bring portabello mushrooms for grilling & cheese. Is there someone who will bring something like a vegie soup for those who don't eat meat? let Jamie know. We're looking forward to a beautiful day! The Growers Meeting will precede the Board Meeting 10AM-12:30PM. (This is a meeting covering issues specific to chestnut orchard managers and other chestnut growers in our chapter.) PROPOSED AGENDAS for 7/20/08 MEETINGS 10:00 - 12:30 ORCHARD/INOCULATION MEETING Follow up Workshop to convert Orchard data (Orchard Managers - Bring your laptops or your latest orchard data with you!!) - Leila,Jamie -Jamie has 25 - F1's to pass out to orchard managers. Who gets them?? - Charlotte other Items?? 12:30 - 1:00 LUNCH ( COOKOUT) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm SUMMER TACF BOARD MEETING Welcome and introduction to Moore State Park - (Denis and Lois) Introduction of Guests and Members - (Jamie) Treasurer's Update (Michael N.) Secretary' s Report (Kathy) Membership New Contacts Inoculation report - (Leila) Introducing our new New England Regional Science Coordinator - (Leila) Annual meeting - Ideas for location and a speaker - (Jamie) RI News: land trusts and new orchards -(Yvonne) Possible Seed Orchard at Moore? Talking to DCR (Denis and Lois) Spring Orchard Activities, (Charlotte) New Board of Directors Roster - (Yvonne?) Progress on Email Updates (Kathy, Yvonne) "Mighty Giants' Book events - (Brad) Upper Goose Pond/Appalachian Trail Event (Michael N.) Please email any other topics for discussion or suggestions. --What Did I forget?? let me know-- *Note I have the projector and screen. If anyone needs it let me know and I will bring it to the meeting Also I have 1 bag of osmocote and 4 bags of planting mix available. If you need either of these let me know how much and I'll bring it to the meeting Board Members-Please let me know if you can not attend this meeting. Chapter Members-Feel free to join us! thanks -Jamie Donalds President The MA Chapter Of The American Chestnut Foundation contact for more directions: loisbreau at aol.com contacts for more information: n1djb at yahoo.com , yfederowicz at cox.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutnews/attachments/20080715/5b92ba80/attachment.html From n1djb at yahoo.com Tue Jul 15 13:04:26 2008 From: n1djb at yahoo.com (Jamie Donalds) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston 90.9 FM on Wednesday Message-ID: <76982.46350.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi All, ???????? Exciting News! ???????? A segment?on the the Chestnut work we are doing in Mass. will be broadcast tomorrow morning on WBUR 90.9 in Boston between 5 and 7AM and a second time between 7 and 9 AM. Fred Thys,a reporter for WBUR, came out and interviewed several members of our chapter in including?taking a trip up in a bucket truck during pollination of a tree in Quabbin. ? Hopfully this will give us some positive exposure and attract new members. ? If you can't listen at those times I've been told that it also be available on the WBUR website. ? Be well, Jamie Donalds President Mass. Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutnews/attachments/20080715/b2340450/attachment.html From n1djb at yahoo.com Wed Jul 16 14:29:52 2008 From: n1djb at yahoo.com (Jamie Donalds) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Update: Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston 90.9 FM on Wednesday In-Reply-To: <76982.46350.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <237412.10737.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi All, Got an email from Fred Thys saying the Chestnut segment will be broadcast tomorrow Thursday July 17th ? -Jamie --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Jamie Donalds wrote: From: Jamie Donalds Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston 90.9 FM on Wednesday To: "orchard mgrlist" , "orchard news" Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 1:04 PM Hi All, ???????? Exciting News! ???????? A segment?on the the Chestnut work we are doing in Mass. will be broadcast tomorrow morning on WBUR 90.9 in Boston between 5 and 7AM and a second time between 7 and 9 AM. Fred Thys,a reporter for WBUR, came out and interviewed several members of our chapter in including?taking a trip up in a bucket truck during pollination of a tree in Quabbin. ? Hopfully this will give us some positive exposure and attract new members. ? If you can't listen at those times I've been told that it also be available on the WBUR website. ? Be well, Jamie Donalds President Mass. Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation ? _______________________________________________ MassChestnutNews mailing list MassChestnutNews at masschestnut.org http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutnews -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutnews/attachments/20080716/ee2d7017/attachment.html From kathydesjardin at verizon.net Thu Jul 17 09:22:25 2008 From: kathydesjardin at verizon.net (Kathy Desjardin) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:22:25 -0400 Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Update: Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston90.9 FM on Wednesday References: <237412.10737.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <003501c8e810$2aef3660$6501a8c0@laptop> I found the interview and pictures available on the following link http://www.wbur.org/news/2008/78744_20080717.asp Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Donalds To: orchard mgrlist ; orchard news Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:29 PM Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Update: Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston90.9 FM on Wednesday Hi All, Got an email from Fred Thys saying the Chestnut segment will be broadcast tomorrow Thursday July 17th -Jamie --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Jamie Donalds wrote: From: Jamie Donalds Subject: [MassChestnutNews] Mass. Chestnut interview on WBUR boston 90.9 FM on Wednesday To: "orchard mgrlist" , "orchard news" Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 1:04 PM Hi All, Exciting News! A segment on the the Chestnut work we are doing in Mass. will be broadcast tomorrow morning on WBUR 90.9 in Boston between 5 and 7AM and a second time between 7 and 9 AM. Fred Thys,a reporter for WBUR, came out and interviewed several members of our chapter in including taking a trip up in a bucket truck during pollination of a tree in Quabbin. Hopfully this will give us some positive exposure and attract new members. If you can't listen at those times I've been told that it also be available on the WBUR website. Be well, Jamie Donalds President Mass. 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