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A monument to peace; Artist David Brown and friends put the finishing touches on a Buddhist stupa in Saybrook
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A stupa grows in Saybrook.
Out in the middle of David Brown's hay field, under a bright
green tarp along Ingham Hill Road, it looks like an enormous chess
piece recovered from a planet of giants. It's white with an
elaborate square base and a tapered trunk that will hold a 14-foot
spire festooned with religious ornaments.
It's called a stupa, a Buddhist religious monument filled with
written prayers and other items that are said to generate a sacred,
healing force. There are tens of thousands of stupas worldwide, from
India to Indiana and from Australia to Arizona.
This one is intended to ...
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George Bird Grinnell and the 'vanishing' plains indians
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History
; GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL LEFT HIS MARK UPON MONTANA AND THE...New York, into a wealthy family, George Bird Grinnell was a product of urban America. Yet...Audubon Park, where in 1856 his father, George Blake Grinnell, purchased a home on...
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 "Field & Stream (West ed.)")
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A shared journey. (sportsman George Bird Grinnell)(Conservation)
Magazine article from: Field & Stream (West ed.)
; ...conservation." George Bird Grinnell was born early...non-game birds, he named...himself, whom Grinnell never knew...the Dakotas. Grinnell was doing research...simply, "Bird." Sociologist...Yet George Bird Grinnell...
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Ruger[R]: on conservation.(GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield
; BORN IN 1849, GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL SAW THE TRANSITION OF GUNS FROM MUZZLELOADERS...AFTER GRADUATING YALE IN 1870, GRINNELL SOON FOUND HIMSELF IN THE WEST WHERE...THE 1874 BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION WITH GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER, TWO YEARS PRIOR...
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George Bird Grinnell 1849-1938: the man behind the meaning of conservation.(B&C Notebook)
Magazine article from: Petersen's Hunting
; ...the machine was fellow B&C founding father George Bird Grinnell. Grinnell was the driving force and editor behind the nation...Senator and B&C member John F. Lacey. George Bird Grinnell, through his relationship with Roosevelt...
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Once upon a time in American ornithology.(George Bird Grinnell)(Biography)
Magazine article from: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
; ...paintings, and boxes of bird skins were always about...formative, and predisposed Grinnell's future as a naturalist...University in 1870, Grinnell was asked by paleontologist...Commanded by Col. George Armstrong Custer, the...event was recorded by Grinnell as he accompanied Custer...when I ...
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Last stand; George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News
; 9780060897826 Last stand; George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth...Publishers 2007 286 pages $25.95 Hardcover QH31 When George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) died, his New York Times obituary...
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David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E. Masich. Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly
; ...Westport and St. Louis. In the East George Bent obtained his education in...Creek Massacre of 1864. For young George Bent, now in the prime of his...worked with authors James Mooney and George Bird Grinnell to get his story published. Halaas...
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Once upon a time in American ornithology.
Magazine article from: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
; ...paintings, and boxes of bird skins were always about...formative, and predisposed Grinnell's future as a naturalist...University in 1870, Grinnell was asked by paleontologist...Commanded by Col. George Armstrong Custer, the...event was recorded by Grinnell as he accompanied Custer...when I ...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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STORY OF BUFFALO'S NEAR EXTINCTION BRINGS NEW NOTICE TO A KEY CONSERVATION FIGURE.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...book, "Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save...of "Last Stand" is Grinnell, a seminal figure in...credit for resurrecting Grinnell from the scrapheap of...painter of American birds. A love of the outdoors...
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Glacier National Park warms to the wild and the civilized
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...over six miles - - the trek to Grinnell Glacier is one of the most popular...hiking on these trails -- the Grinnell Valley spread out before us...Backbone of the World. Naturalist George Bird Grinnell named it the Crown of the Continent...
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