About the Sign
The sign was built with the help of neighbors of the creek, a neighborhood mini-grant from Sustainable Tompkins.
The stones around the frame were collected from various places along the creek from the headwaters to the lake. The rocks in the upper left hand corner come from where Six Mile Creek flows through the Roy H. Park Preserve near the headwaters of the creek, and going clockwise around the sign and as the creek flows along, there are stones from Slaterville 600, Brooktondale, the City of Ithaca drinking water reservoir, Mulholland Wildflower Preserve, Columbia Street pedestrian bridge, Titus Triangle Park, and Hog's Hole (at Cayuga Lake).
The sign was built with a lot of recycled materials, including...
The stones around the frame were collected from various places along the creek from the headwaters to the lake. The rocks in the upper left hand corner come from where Six Mile Creek flows through the Roy H. Park Preserve near the headwaters of the creek, and going clockwise around the sign and as the creek flows along, there are stones from Slaterville 600, Brooktondale, the City of Ithaca drinking water reservoir, Mulholland Wildflower Preserve, Columbia Street pedestrian bridge, Titus Triangle Park, and Hog's Hole (at Cayuga Lake).
The sign was built with a lot of recycled materials, including...
- pieces of a collapsed 19th century barn from Midline Road near the headwaters of Six Mile Creek
- scrap boards (previously homemade bed of a cub scout) from a basement near German Cross Road (just upstream of the city drinking water reservoir)
- magnetic chalkboard from a free pile on Plain Street
- part of a Center Street neighbor's dismantled raised garden bed
- scraps from a Center Street house remodeling project
- bolts and nails from a Wood Street Craigslist free posting
- a driftwood board (previously part of someone's lake dock?) found at Hog's Hole, near the Allen H. Treman Marina and Cass Park
- some locust boards from Newfield's Locust Lumber Company scrap pile
- old plywood discovered in a Schuyler County barn