New York Women Helped Frame the Forest Preserve Debate (March 24, 2014)
Forest Preserve History: The Warwick Carpenter Papers (August 14, 2013)
Adirondack Legal History: The Lake George Trespass Case (July 14, 2013)
A Lake George Park: Enlisting Women to the Cause (February 26, 2013)
Setting the Record Straight on Lake George: Robert Moses, John Apperson, and Tongue Mountain (February 13, 2013)
The above articles, written in 2013 and 2014 and published in The Adirondack Explorer Magazine, give a nice overview of the important activities in which Apperson and his allies were engaged. They can speak for themselves, but I will list here some of the names of people who are mentioned, or who actually exchanged letters with John Apperson.
The names:
- Mary Loines and Hilda and Sylvia, her daughters
- Ethel Dreier – President of the NY City Women’s Club
- Ted Dreier – Son of Ethel Dreier, engineer at GE, married Barbara Loines
- Warwick Carpenter – Secretary of the Conservation Commission
- Robert Moses – Secretary to the New York State Parks Commission (the Power Broker)
- Governor Al Smith
- Senator Ellwood Rabenold – Chairman of the State Conservation Committee
- William K. Bixby – Wealthy landowner at Lake George
- George Foster Peabody – Wealthy landowner at Lake George
- George D. Pratt – Conservation Commissioner
- Paul Schaefer
- Clifford Pettis – Superintendent of Forests
- Lithgow Osborne – Conservation Commissioner
- Kenneth Reynolds – Attorney
- Charles H. Tuttle – Attorney representing the LGA (Lake George Water Trespass Case)