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Story telling class returns to the cemetery SUNY Oswego professor gives Local legends and past characters come back to life advice on Canada geese Brandon Ladd Editor-in-chief bladd@oswegonian.com After a year away from the cemetery due to COVID-19, the SUNY Oswego storytelling class will be back in spooky scenery for the sixth annual Oswego Town Rural Cemetery: Ghost and History Storytelling Tour at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29. According to the press release, the event will take place rain or shine. Attendees are recommended to arrive by 5:30 p.m. to either secure parking at Oswego Town Rural Cemetery, which is located at 242 Cemetery Road in Oswego, or be dropped off with enough time to ensure on-time performance.
The event will include stories of college founder Edward Austin Sheldon, Dr. Mary Walker, the local women’s rights pioneer and only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman, Queen Lili’uokalni Kamaka’eha and her Oswego connection to Walker, Saint Marianne Cope, Chief Pontiac, college library namesake Lida Penfield and many more. This year will feature the addition of a few new people, including Dr. Richard Shineman and Audrey Munson, who is sometimes known as the “first supermodel.” Professor Jonel Langenfeld of SUNY Oswego’s theatre faculty is in charge of the customerwearing reenactors, who bring
the stories to life for the night. The event is meant to be family-friendly and is open to all. “I am very proud of the students in the storytelling class and their passion for sharing the stories of famous and notso-famous historical figures residing in this and other cemeteries,” Langenfeld said. “The students have had a great time researching this area where they are going to school. They have learned a great deal about Oswego, the college, the people, the area and its history.” Admission is free and sponsored by the Oswego Town Historical Society. Langenfeld offered a special thanks to Oswego Town Historian George DeMass, who is a 1966 SUNY Oswego alumnus.
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The Canada geese on the SUNY Oswego campus have a reputation for terrizing students walking.
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If you have ever walked on SUNY Oswego’s campus, you have probably crossed paths with a Canada goose. And yes, it is ‘Canada goose.’ “It’s very common to hear people say Canadian geese, but that’s technically incorrect,” said Daniel Baldassarre, who holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior and is an assistant professor in the biological sciences department at SUNY Oswego. They’re a nuisance, [Canada geese] love hanging out on college campuses.” Canada geese “love being in urban areas alongside humans” because people often cut down trees and have open spaces like quads or sports fields, Baldassarre said. These large areas of grass are not ideal for most other wildlife but are for Canada geese because they are herbivores and predominantly eat grasses. Large open spaces can also be useful to Canada geese because it allows for “a wide, unobstructed view of any approaching predators” according to allaboutbirds.org. “They just love to be out in ope grass and just munching-munching,” Baldassarre said. “That’s why they’re attracted to places like college campuses that have these big open lawns. That’s just like a breakfast buffet for geese.” Baldassarre said that although Image via Oswego Office of Communications and Marketing Press Release we do see a lot of Canada geese on Oswego Town Historian, and 1966 SUNY Oswego alumnus, George DeMass speaks with theatre faculty member Jonel Langenfeld. campus, there are not as many as
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there could be. “Oswego’s kinda lucky that we don’t have more than we do [because] they really can become a pain in the butt,” Baldassarre said. “They can be aggressive, and they’re big, and they occur in pretty large numbers, and they poop all over the place. Certain places like golf courses and other college campuses, for example, sometimes they just get blanketed with geese. You’ll just see massive, massive flocks.” There are many preventative measures people and places use to try to keep the Canada geese away, according to Baldassarre. Speakers that project loud noises and frightening sounds, strobe lights and sprinklers, sometimes equipped with motion sensors, are used to keep Canada geese away. But these methods typically only work for a little while. Once the geese realize the sounds, lights and sprinklers are not a threat, they come back and deal with them. “[Canada geese are] pretty persistent. It’s very difficult to keep them away from a particular area,” Baldassarre said. “It’s really difficult to try and manage them.” There are also dogs that people raise and train specifically to scare off geese, according to Baldassarre. “The only things that really work are very active, persistent measures like hiring a dog, for example, and having the dog come out all the time and just constantly chasing geese away.”
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