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2014 events
Cleaning & Planning
Cleaning & Planning
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Four Parks Department officials discussing future capital improvements with Dan Mundy, Vice President of Friends of Tribute Park, Inc. at the park. L–R: Jonel Vukan, Asst. Director Queens Requirements Contracts; Luann Gallagher, Senior Propagation Supervisor, Queens Horticulture; Joelle Byrer, Team Leader for Queens Capital Projects, and Jill Weber, Rockaway Administrator.
Scott Elliot, is a documentary filmmaker making a film entitled The Trees which helps tell the story of the WTC memorial grove. In his research, he came across the work of US Forest Service research social scientists, Erika S. Svendsen, Ph. D. and Lindsay K. Campbell, Ph. D. and their work on the Living Memorials Project. He decided to expand his project to help tell the story of the many hundreds of memorials across the country that came before the WTC grove. On July 1, 2014 he visited Tribute Park with his crew and the social scientists to film and to interview the President of the Tribute Park board, Bernie Warnock.