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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4360764, member: 9260"] long ago, i met and became friendly with Walt Landgraf, a stunningly brilliant naturalist, and aboot as patient and nice a person as any that i have ever met. we would hold an annual campout in Peoples State Forest, for city kids from New Haven, and he would open the museum, and teach the kids stuff. i would constantly pester him on two topics: if mountain lions were here (he said no, at that time), colebrook being the hotspot, and the size of our 'coyotes.' he didn't think that my tales of regular 70 lbs+ were unreasonable, and said that up in the Adirondacks, there were 100 pounders cruising around, whatever name they were called. [I]After sitting idle for 50 years, the Museum was reopened in 1992 under the direction of Marilyn Aarrestad, the Peoples State Forest supervisor at that time. It was reopened under a new name, "The Stone Museum." The curator for the next 15 years was Walter Landgraf. Upon his passing in 2007, the museum was again called "The Peoples State Forest Nature Museum." [URL="https://psfnaturemuseum.org/"]Nature Museum[/URL][/I] after he passed away, i was told to my face, by some phoney baloney state pols, that the museum would be called 'the Walter Landgraf' something or other. never happened. sad. Walt was the man when it came to all things flora and fauna in Connecticut. [/QUOTE]