Kleiner's Blog

I was at a blogging conference last night and another Lehigh Valley blogger very curtly said to me in response to discovering that I was the author of Remember: “Remember? More like I forgot.”  That was not the nicest thing I have heard in three years of writing this thing but it is far from the worst and, it really got me thinking.  As I am preparing to return to the Parks for new and fresh series of examinations, I feel like it is appropriate to take a walk (ha) down memory lane today.

The posts I am about to link to are a complete literal documentation of how a laid off employee with no proper science background began to learn about the world around himself and over time found himself becoming a scientist.  These are unedited.  All the mistakes I made scientific and otherwise are here laid bare because they help tell the story.  These posts are a chronicle of why a park system is so important in an urban corridor.  These posts show what something as simple as a Park can do – a Park can change someone’s entire life.
(There is more post after the links – click and read Please! But keep on heading down!)

1. West Park (April 30^th 2009)
2. Trexler Park (May 2^nd 2009)
3. South Mountain (May 9^th 2009)
4. Lehigh Parkway (Spring –Fall 2009)
5. Keck Park (May 23^rd 2009)
6.  The Fish Hatchery ( May 27^th 2009)
7. East Side Reservoir (May 29^th 2009)  
8. Muhlenberg Lake (June 1^st 2009)
9. The Rose Gardens (June 2^nd 2009)
10. Cedar Beach Parkway (June 3^rd 2009)
11. Union Terrace (June 5^th 2009)
12. Trout Creek Parkway [Part One – June 8^th 2009]
       Trout Creek Parkway [Part Two – June 9^th 2009]
13. Canal Park (June 14^th 2009)
14. Jordan Park (June 19^th 2009)

Before continuing with the links, as I go back through the history of my blog, I want to mention that the change really began here.  As construction at Cedar Beach Parkway reached a head, I revisited the early parks and began writing about riparian buffers and invasive species. It took just under two months for these Parks to change me and my writing and content shows just that.  I mean, that Muhlenberg Lake post is completely scientifically uniformed and truthfully – in error; but that is what makes this journey beautiful!  It makes that which comes in 2010, 2011 and now in 2012 that much more important!!
More Park Logs:
15.  Fountain Park [Part One – July 21^st 2009]
        Fountain Park [Part Two – July 22^nd 2009]
16. Percy B. Ruhe Park (July 24^th 2009)
17. Bucky Boyle Park (July 29^th 2009)
18. Jordan Meadows (July 30^th 2009)

Then, I was set.  But, that is the story of how all this began! It is how The Muhlenberg College Journey happened – how I ended up on top of mountains (like the picture that started this post!) and knee deep in the cold winter waters of the Atlantic Ocean.  It is where I am going back to now and where I hope you come with me!