[SustainableTompkins] Short Video: Remembering Ben Nichols as he remembers Redbud Woods.

[Tony Del Plato]

Thanks Tony for sharing this with us all. Ben was a terrific comrade who has
been and will always be an inspiration to us all to carry on our struggles
for a just & sane world.
Tony Del Plato

On Nov 25, 2007 6:59 PM, Anthony Ingraham <owlgorge at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The Ithaca and Cornell communities are beginning to grieve the loss of one
> of their finest and most beloved citizens. Ben Nichols passed away Saturday
> morning, Nov. 24. He was mayor during the 1990s and was a retired Cornell
> engineering professor. He was dedicated to human rights and social justice,
> and, as this video shows, stayed involved in community issues right to the
> end of his life. He will be missed dearly.
>
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=CpUgYfjco1M
>
> You can watch this 8-minute video of Ben speaking at the Oct. 4 dedication
> of a plaque commemorating the unsuccessful struggle to save Redbud Woods on
> University Avenue from destruction to build a parking lot for new West
> Campus dorms. Ben puts the struggle in historical perspective and gives
> advice as to what is needed in the future if Cornell faculty, staff, and
> students are to have any influence in University pollicy-making. It is
> followed by a song about Redbud Woods written by Will Fudeman before the
> woods were bulldozed, and performed by him one more time at the dedication.
> This short video was extracted and edited from the full 50-minute episode,
> "Remembering Redbud Woods," from my public access TV series "Nature Nearby"
> aired this month on Ithaca cable channel 13.
>
> My favorite quote from his speech: "It was nice to get arrested again, for
> a good reason."
>
> Click to see the video:
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=CpUgYfjco1M
>
> Please feel free to pass this message along to anyone you think would like
> to see it.
>
> Tony Ingraham
> owlgorge at earthlink.net
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