It's no substitute for roaming the leafy byways, intriguing gardens and spectacular gorges in one of America's most beautiful college campuses.
Rather, the new video presentation A Journey Through Time and Nature: Cornell Plantations Path adds a fourth dimension, as archival film footage summons scholarly ghosts to join the modern-day walker through a living museum of natural history at Cornell.
A supplement to the book Cornell Plantations Path Guide, the VHS videotape is sold for $24.95 or, together with the guidebook, for $33.90. The seven-mile Cornell Plantations Path, which opened in 1994, is a series of interconnected, interpreted trails that link historic downtown Ithaca with the university's academic campus, gardens and natural areas.
"If you're getting ready to walk Plantations Path, this video gives a great preview," said Plantations Director Donald Rakow. "After your visit, you can take home a souvenir." Production of the video was made possible, Rakow noted, by a gift from two alumni friends of Cornell Plantations, Maralyn Winsor Fleming and D. Wayne Fleming, Class of 1945.
An electronic version of Cornell Plantations Path Guide can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/plantations/guide.html.
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