Greetings!
A public premier for viewing a selection of digitally scanned glass slides that belonged to Ernest Harold Baynes will be held on Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at the Plainfield Town Hall located on Rt. 12A in Plainfield NH.  The Meriden Bird Club in collaboration with the Plainfield Historical Society is excited to send you this invitation. If you want a copy of the flier to make reproduce, share, post and put in your local calendar of upcoming events, please send me an e-mail: [log in to unmask] 

Naturalist, author, and defender of wildlife, Ernest Harold Baynes founded The Meriden Bird Club in 1910. It is the oldest organized bird club in the United States. Hundreds of bird clubs were established as a result of his efforts. He asked the public to protect birds being hunted and killed for their feathers that adorned hats; the fate of the songbirds was critical and he stressed the importance of attracting birds, thus, the establishment of the Helen Woodruff Smith Bird Sanctuary.

Baynes came to Meriden, NH in 1904 at the behest of New Hampshire businessman Austin Corbin, who had established the 26,000 acre Blue Mountain Forest Game Preserve in 1890. As buffalo faced extinction, Corbin’s bison herd became a valuable resource to reestablish herds in the West. Baynes was named conservator to the park. The American Bison Society was formed, with Baynes as its founding secretary, and Theodore Roosevelt as honorary chairman. At the end of WW1, he traveled to Europe to document the role that animals had played in the war effort which resulted in many incredible slides of WW1.

Using the slides in order to make his appeal for the protection of wildlife, Baynes lectured nationwide to more than 250,000 people before his death in 1925.

Anyone interested in wildlife preservation, birds, buffalo, or WW1 will enjoy this program. Other Baynes photos and artifacts which include the Baynes Buffalo Scrapbook will be on display at the Plainfield Historical Society before and after the program.

Please join us on Sunday, October 23. Spread the word.

Sincerely,

 

Mary Boyle

President

The Meriden Bird Club

603-252-7898
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