{"id":44580,"date":"2013-04-12T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=44580"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:55:25","slug":"greene-smiths-beloved-birds-presentation-is-april-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=44580","title":{"rendered":"Greene Smith&#8217;s Beloved Birds Presentation is April 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Peterboro, NY \u2013 April 2013) On Sunday April 14 at 2 p.m. the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark will celebrate Greene Smith\u2019s birthday by hosting Colgate Sustainability Coordinator John Pumilio.\u00a0\u00a0Pumilio will present \u201cA World of Wonder: Greene Smith\u2019s Beloved Birds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene Smith was considered a leading ornithologist during the mid-19th century, lecturing at Cornell University.\u00a0 The talk will feature differing specimens left to Colgate by Greene\u2019 Smith\u2019s widow to illustrate the exciting role of birds in mid-19th century science, including Darwin\u2019s emerging theory of evolution.\u00a0 An easy, informal birdwatching \u201cramble\u201d will follow, to scout for spring migratory birds. [Dress accordingly.]<\/p>\n<p>Interested participants can also walk to the nearby Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, where the foundation ruins of Greene\u2019s Bird House have been cleared for a formal \u201cforensic\u201d site exploration this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested donation is $3.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please call\u00a0315-280-8828, email\u00a0info@gerritsmith.org, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritsmith.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.gerritsmith.org<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Birdhouse-Rorer-8-30-09.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43891\" alt=\"Birdhouse Rorer 8-30-09\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Birdhouse-Rorer-8-30-09.jpg?resize=226%2C185\" width=\"226\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Birdhouse-Rorer-8-30-09.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Birdhouse-Rorer-8-30-09.jpg?resize=150%2C122&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Peterboro, NY \u2013 April 2013) On Sunday April 14 at 2 p.m. the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark will celebrate Greene Smith\u2019s birthday by hosting Colgate Sustainability Coordinator John Pumilio.\u00a0\u00a0Pumilio will present \u201cA World of Wonder: Greene Smith\u2019s Beloved Birds.\u201d Greene Smith was considered a leading ornithologist during the mid-19th century, lecturing at Cornell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,22367],"tags":[4669,8168,23427,10576,16868],"class_list":["post-44580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming","category-history","tag-colgate-university","tag-gerrit-smith-estate-national-historic-landmark","tag-greene-smiths-beloved-birds","tag-john-pumilio","tag-peterboro-ny-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-bB2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}