NYC bus trip to see photo exhibit on Stewart Buffer Lands

The Stewart buffer lands, aka Stewart State Forest, will be the subject of an event at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Saturday, April 12. Lynn H. Butler, a 3-D photographer and a member of the New York Stereoscopic Society, will be presenting her atmospheric images of the lands taken from horseback in the museum’s Kaufman Auditorium. Butler, who lives on her farm in Thompson Ridge, has been fascinated with the fields, woods and wetlands at Stewart, riding her horse there since 2005. Butler’s work can be seen currently at the Brooklyn Museum and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art in New Brunswick, N.J. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center for Photography in New York City. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, with her work displayed in countless individual and group shows in the United States and abroad. Butler conceived of this event as a way to highlight the lands and Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition’s (SPARC’s) 20-year fight to save the 7,000 acres. SPARC has chartered a bus for transportation from Newburgh to the American Museum of Natural History on Saturday, April 12. Reservations and pre-payment are required. The cost is $30 for seniors, and $40 for all others. Departure is at 10 a.m. from the Newburgh Mall with return by 7 p.m. that evening. Admission donation to the Museum (typically $15) will be waived, as a courtesy of the New York Stereoscopic Society. For additional information or to make reservations, call 564-3018 or e-mail: sparc@frontiernet.net.