Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition
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26 February 2008
Geology Professor (and son of Greenway founder) to speak at Annual Meeting
NEW LONDON -- Tim Allen says he is into mountains. However, when the 45-year-old professor says he is into mountains, he means something a little different than, say, hiking or just enjoying the view. Think a mountain’s skeleton -- its rocks and layers and crystals.
Allen, a professional geologist, will “get into” the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition’s mountains when he addresses the hiking group’s annual meeting and supper Sunday, March 9 in New London. Members -- and anyone else who would like to attend -- are welcome.
In addition to Allen’s discourse about the SRK’s formative geology, the annual meeting will get a first look at the updated 52-page SRKG Trail Guide, first published in 2003.
This revamped second edition includes more accurate descriptions of the 14 trail segments, makes major, GIS-based improvements to the guide’s trail maps, and features two new keynote articles. The articles, by Dave Anderson, director of education for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, and Gerry Gold, SRKG trails director, examine the link between the SRKG and the region’s environment and future.
The 2008 SRKG Trail Guide, a product of almost a year’s effort by its editors, is priced at $10.
Allen, professor of geology and environmental studies at Keene State College, will take us back 450 million to 350 million years to the early environmental history of the region. He will explain how our mountains were formed and what happened to them during the eons of geological change that carved the SRK region into what it is today.
The story will include the effect of colliding earth’s plates and, most recently, geologically speaking, the 10,000 years of the last glacial era, which produced an ice sheet almost two miles thick and whose trapped water ultimately helped create our familiar landscape.
The “hard-rock” geology and hydrology specialist recently led a project with his students that mapped in detail the geology of Lake Sunapee. The US Geological Survey-funded study “addressed the interrelationships between structural development, metamorphism, and magmatism during mountain-building events” in the area. The mapping discovered some important fault structures near Sunapee.
Allen lives in Keene with “one wife, one kid, one dog, and one cat.” He is the son of Dan Allen of New London, an early guiding spirit in the organization of the Greenway.
The annual meeting, at the Kearsarge Community Presbyterian Church on Route 11, begins with a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. Jean LaChance (927-4345) would welcome word from anyone planning to attend about what food they’d like to contribute. A brief business session will precede Allen’s talk; to begin about 7 p.m. Members are reminded this is a good time to renew their individual or family memberships.
Please
contact Jean LaChance (927-4345) to reserve a seat for the upcoming Annual
General Meeting (09 March 2008). She will want to know the number of persons attending and what food(s) you will be bringing to the pot-luck. See you there!
For More Information Contact:
Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition
PO Box 1648, New London, NH 03257
Internet: srkgc@srkg.com