Three Paterson Mayors Look For "Some Sign of Life" at National Park

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This is good stuff.  A positive spin on a story that might otherwise not appear that way.  I have literally been in the process of collaborating with 3 of the NJCDC's youth programs, Paterson Youth Council, Great Falls YouthBuild, and the AmeriCorps Paterson Community Schools Corps, to begin having free guided tours of the Great Falls Historic District and the surrounding Mill Mile, the home of America's newest National Park.

I should actually a have a pretty good idea about when the tours will begin by the end of today so check back for more information later.  Especially all my friends and family from out of town, there is so much important American History here in Paterson that you owe it to yourself to get down here and see this beautiful city while you learn about how significant this city's development will be to America's future success.  (more on that to come later)

PATERSON, NJ – Three Paterson mayors on Thursday urged federal officials to move quickly to produce some tangible signs of progress on the new national park at the Great Falls.

“There is growing doubt,’’ said former mayor Pat Kramer, speaking during a meeting of the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Advisory Commission. “They need some sign of life. They need something that says it’s coming, it’s happening, don’t lose faith.’’

Former mayor Thomas Rooney agreed, saying that something as simple as weekly tours on a nature trail should be done “for the people to believe this is real.’’ Mayor Jeffrey Jones said there’s “living urgency with this notion of the park” and that some Patersonians have expectations that have not yet been met. “It’s not Disney? There’s no Ferris wheel?’’ Jones said.

Rooney said the park service ought to start some low cost services at the park, such as tours on nature trails that would take visitors to the bucolic area near the lower river. Rooney said that one one walk in the area he became caught up in the tranquility and felt he had gone back in time.


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Three Paterson Mayors Look For "Some Sign of Life" at National Park