As of April 2024, over two decades have passed since the first Friends of Governor Dick group organized. Throughout the years, the efforts and membership of the Friends group have fluctuated as they encountered numerous obstacles.
This section of the current Friends website is dedicated to the pioneers of our group. We have uncovered possibly their original website that has long since been abandoned (hosted on a then-free web hosting service that has been overtaken by ads, making the original site unreadable—without digging into the code behind the rendered site); however, it contains a wealth of information so we are preserving it here (augmenting with graphics from the current version of the Friends group).
If you take the time to read through the historical website pages, review the “paper” archive scanned into this PDF document from members of the original group, this PDF document compiled by the park trustees; and are familiar with the efforts of the current Friends group, you will see history repeating itself with each harvest the park trustees sanction within the park!
Topics from the original Friends of Governor Dick Site:
- News (from the latter part of 2002)
- What is Governor Dick?
- Access to the park
- The Tower
- A brief History
- Forest Ecology
- Trail Etiquette
- Administration
- Proposed Development (remember the original site is from 2002)
- Why the development is Wrong!
- What can YOU do?
- Information Resources
- Links
- Who are we?