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TIN MOUNTAIN from page 2 according to Kinsey. “We had always said after purchas- response to date,” said Kinsey. ing the fi rst tract in 2004 for the Nature The campaign’s goals include expand- Learning Center if they were ever inter- ing the existing trail network to include ested in selling the additional 73-acre an ADA-accessible nature trail; paying tract that we would be interested. When off Tin Mountain’s $80,000 mortgage on we reapproached them recently, they said the Nature Learning Center; creating an yes,” said Kinsey. endowment and self-funding maintenance The soon-to-be acquired 73-acre parcel account; building a new barn for storing includes at least two cellar holes of aban- vehicles, tools and equipment such as canoes doned structures, according to Kinsey. and kayaks; and creating a children’s play- “There was some prime development ground on the Learning Center property. potential there but now it is protected so The self-sustaining maintenance we feel good about that.” account will be funded and used for capital She said the acreage’s relatively fl at ter- maintenance projects, Kinsey explained. rain makes it ideal for a nature trail “acces- “If you have a leak in the roof, for example, sible to all for non-mechanical travel. We that account will be used to fi x it,” she said. really want to open up the outdoors to all, Kinsey — who has been with the organi- which is after all, part of our mission at zation for 37 years, fi rst as a teacher-nat- Tin Mountain,” said Kinsey. uralist, then education director before “It will feature a sturdy, compacted sur- succeeding her late husband Dr. Michael face topped off with crushed gravel,” she Cline as executive director — recently continued. “It will accommodate wheel- offered a tour of the 73-acre Hunt property chairs, strollers and everyone from tod- that sits on the corner of Bald Hill Road dlers to seniors — families, runners, and Chase Hill Road in Albany, which is cross-country skiers, snowshoers — and of being purchased from brothers Calvert course, bird-watchers.” and Gerry Hunt for $185,000. She said Tin Mountain plans to grade It was the Hunts who in 2004 sold to Tin the parking lot. “The trails are fl at, but the Mountain the 138-acre tract that houses access from where we will build the park- the Nature Learning Center. ing lot is steep.” The Hunts, who have owned the land Leading Monday’s walking tour, Kinsey since the 1970s, no longer live in the stopped beside Cream Brook, a meander- area, with Calvert residing in Maine and ing stream in the shadow of Bald Hill, to A fox and a snowy owl keep watch over the library at the Tin Mountain Conservation Gary in North Carolina. As children, they Center. The building is closed to the public due to the pandemic. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO) used to visit their grandfather in Albany, see TIN MOUNTAIN page 4

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TIN MOUNTAIN from page 3 note that the path will feature interpretive nature spots that will help explain the tract’s diversity of flora, birds and wildlife. “This is a common mixed Northern hardwood-coni- fer forest,” according to Kinsey. “It abuts the 90-acre Albany Town Forest and a 53-acre White Mountain National Forest tract off Chase Hill Road.” Not to mention, it isn’t far from the greater White Moun- tain National Forest along the Kancamagus High- way and Swift River. The tour ended at the Allard cemetery, located behind a vacant dwelling that is to be torn down as part of Tin Mountain’s acquisition of the 73-acre site. “You can make out some of the names of Allard families who once farmed here,” said Kinsey, pulling back branches from a tombstone in the family plot. One former landowner was Capt. David Allard of the New Hampshire State Militia, who died in 1872 at age 76. His wife, Martha, was the daughter of J. Moulton, an original land grantee. Her faded tomb-stone shows she died in September 1878. The area was known as the Moulton-Allard neighborhood and welcomed many of the earliest settlers. The original 138-acre tract sold to Tin Mountain by the Hunts includes Chase Pond, a quarry and the nature trails of the Rockwell Sanctuary, named Tin Mountain Conservation Center Executive Director Lori Jean Kinsey and board chair Rick Steber at the old Allard barn, which was built after Tin Mountain founders Barbara and Henry in 1820. It is currently used for storage, but Tin Mountain would like to run programs for the public there. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO) Rock-well. The adjoining 91-acre Dr. Michael Cline Memo-rial Forest was added in 2018. along with staff offi ces on the second fl oor. the Tin Mountain campus. The new acquisition brings Tin Mountain’s total Adjacent is the intern cabin, built in 2012, that The property is also home to the 200-year-old to over 300 acres of land. sits next to an array of photovoltaic solar panels. Allard barn, whose restoration in the early 2000s On the main site sits the timber-framed center, Due to the COVID-19 safe social-distancing guide- by local builders Shedd, David Condoulis and Nate with its great room and granite fi replace built by lines, this year the cabin housed only one intern this Reid was funded by the West Oxford Agricultural David Shedd from the quarry on the property. That past summer. Two additional interns were local building houses classrooms and a nature library, valley residents so they did not need to be housed on see TIN MOUNTAIN page 5 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 100% GUARANTEED FINANCING

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TIN MOUNTAIN from page 4 Steber, a retired industrial engineer and wildlife photographer who has Society (presenters of the Fryeburg served as board chair for the past 2½ Fair) and an LCHIP (Land and Cul- years and who has been on the board tural Heritage Investment Program) for nearly six years. grant from the state. He and Kinsey described how Tin Renamed the West Oxford Agri- Mountain put both its classroom and cultural Society Barn, it’s the oldest adult programs online, utilizing Zoom barn in Albany, Kinsey said. “It’s such and other internet platforms, while also a beautiful structure, yet we’ve got presenting some programs outdoors. it stock full of all of this equipment. The Nature Learning Center has As part of our capital campaign, we been closed to the public since mid- plan to build a new storage barn on March. the property and to make better use Another fi rst this year — Tin of this beautiful barn for our nature Mountain held its First Season Fes- programming,” she said. tival Benefi t auction entirely online. The capital campaign wish list also Normally, the dinner/auction is held includes a “Nature’s Playscape” for at Fryeburg Academy’s Wadsworth children — a playground of rocks, tree Arena but the pandemic made that stumps, footbridges and logs to “foster impossible last March. coordination and fun,” said Kinsey. According to Marketing and Com- Rick Steber of Glen, chairman of the munications Director Dawson Winch, Tin Mountain Board, joined Kinsey at it still netted a respectable $27,000, the site on Wednesday to talk more The Tin Mountain Conservation Center got new solar panels installed in 2016. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO) compared with the previous year’s about the campaign, and how nature live auction net of $39,000. — and its built-in physical distancing ally were in two elementary schools Mountain was forced by the pandemic Plans call for next year’s also to be component — has found a new audi- and in just the third grades: Jackson to adapt to a new way of providing held online (on March 20-28) in con- ence due to COVID-19. Grammar School and Josiah Bartlett programming. junction with local restaurants in a They said that what began in 1980 Elementary. We now serve over 17 “Starting last spring, we did a lot format that is still being fi nalized, as Barbara Rockwell of Jackson’s schools in Mount Washington Valley, of teaching online, hoping that people Kinsey said. vision has evolved into an ever-grow- including western Maine, as well as would get inspired and take to the The pandemic also led to the can- ing educational resource for learning the Gorham and Berlin school dis- natural world with their kids,” said cellation of such major fundraisers as about and enjoying the outdoors. David tricts. We originally started out with Kinsey. the traditional Mt. Washington Auto Brooks was the fi rst executive director, maybe 60 kids and now we have “The whole COVID-19 experience Road Bicycle Hillclimb. That and the followed by Richard Thompson-Tucker, 3,000 per year from preschool to high has shown that people need and want Mount Washington Century Ride Joel Rhymer, Cline and Kinsey. school,” Kinsey said. to be outdoors,” she added. “When we fi rst started, we liter- Like every educational facility, Tin “I think we need it even more,” said see TIN MOUNTAIN page 6 Page 6 — THE CONWAY DAILY SUN, Saturday, December 5, 2020

TIN MOUNTAIN from page 5 area,” Kinsey said, adding you do not need to be an ornithology expert became a “ride on your own and get a to participate. Volunteers may email goodie bag and travelogue of the ride.” Nora Dufi lho (nbeem@tinmountain. Rather than having summer camp- org) for more information. ers come to Tin Mountain this year, In addition, “people are very much families signed up for Camp in Box, using our trails, especially our Bear- Summer Camp Challenge — complete paw tract over by the State Line Store with a video and a box of activities to do for mountain biking, and our Jackson at home. Family Explorations on Tues- Tin Mountain property is also getting days were another camp alternative. use,” she said. They also offer weekly “Whenever possible, programs were online nature-related trivia contests. modifi ed or adapted rather than can- Membership currently stands at 460 celed,” added Kinsey. members, with a staff of 12 employ- However, Tin Mountain did hold ees, plus one intern (staff increases to its annual Brownfi eld Bog canoe and about 15 in summer). kayak outing and other smaller, limit- Kinsey was proud to note that ed-number group outings. thanks to the Payroll Protection Pro- This fall, Tin Mountain has gram and the Nonprofi t Emergency remained outside. “In the past (pre- Relief Fund, she didn’t have to lay COVID-19), we would go into the off a single staff member. She said she schools and then head outside, but Tin Mountain snowshoers shown last winters on a tour of the 73-acre Hunt property that Tin Mountain continues to apply for grants as well. now it is all outside or we are doing expects to purchase next week. (COURTESY PHOTO) As Tin Mountain stands on the remote learning,” said Kinsey. threshold of its 40th anniversary, Meanwhile, adult programs that change by NHPR environmental number of birds in a 24-hour period Kinsey and Steber shared a vision of a have in the past attracted an audience reporter Annie Ropeikiek. surveying the same defi ned area so local resource that fuels people’s pas- of 60 people to Tin Mountain have That will be followed Dec. 17 at 7 they can contrast each year’s data.” sion for the outdoors. drawn an equal or greater number to p.m. by “Winter Bird Ecology” (an The success of the winter bird Steber writes in the “Plant a Seed” virtual sessions, Kinsey said. online program led by Tin Mountain census depends on a troop of devoted brochure that “we are now protecting “We had 71 the other night for our board member Will Broussard) and volunteers both in the fi eld and at our footprint on Bald Hill Road in lynx program. I am very proud of how Dec. 19 by the 32nd annual North home watching their feeders. Albany with an adjacent land pur- everyone has adapted,” said Kinsey, Conway Area Christmas Bird Count. “Bird counts are useful tools for chase in order to extend our mission noting that next up on Dec. 11 at 7 Of the count, Kinsey explained: evaluating yearly and long-term TIN MOUNTAIN p.m. is a virtual program on climate “Every year, volunteers count the trends of the birds wintering in our see page 8 Keep Your New Car Warranty • Experience Quality Service

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Tin Mountain Conservation Center Executive Director Lori Jean Kinsey walks back to the original easement from the newly acquired land in Albany on Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)

TIN MOUNTAIN from page 6 continue with the education of kids and their parents exploring their own for the next 40 years. This includes pre- backyard and nature around us. serving additional forest property that “To this day, my greatest satisfac- offers a natural corridor to the National tion is seeing the enthusiasm that Forest. With this action, we’ll create a sparkles in kids’ eyes. They love the larger ‘four-season’ presence and open natural world and are like sponges up new outdoor nature experiences to that absorb what is around them. a growing population of friends, donors “And,” she added, “I really enjoy and visitors who together comprise the working with the adults, too — edu- future of Tin Mountain.” cation, after all, is a lifelong endeavor, He and Kinsey said the Moulton-Al- and I appreciate the curiosity of every- lard neighborhood also has gener- one, whether they are 6, 16 or 65.” ously contributed toward the effort. To support the “Planting Seeds: The Tin Mountain shows its support for Next 40 Years” capital campaign and the town by making a payment in lieu learn more about membership, proof taxes every year. grams and camps, go to tinmountain. “I think the original goals remain org or call (603) 447-6991. strong,” said Kinsey. “And that is to [email protected]

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