PECONIC PROPANE - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager of Major and Planned Gifts ( She / Her )
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." - Rachel Carson
"Dear old world', she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you." - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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- Trustee, the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund
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- Senior Marketing and Events Manager
"Find joy in the sky, in the trees, in the flowers. There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."
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- Director of Agricultural Programs
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- Development Assistant ( She / Her )
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- Human Resources Assistant
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Operations ( She / Her )
"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Senior Stewardship Manager
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- President
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- Environmental Programs Manager
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- Digital Communications Coordinator
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- Annual Giving Coordinator
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- Senior Manager of Outreach
"Be we merry while we may and mindful of joy, for heaviness of the heart can be had at the asking." - Taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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- Director of Conservation Planning
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- Director, Quail Hill Farm ( They / Them )
"Matter doesn't disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt." - Adrienne Maree Brown
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- Marketing and Communications Assistant
"Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the ones less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - R. Frost
Louis Bacon donates a conservation easement on 540 acres on Cow Neck to the Trust; the organization's largest single conservation easement to date. The property, acquired by Mr. Bacon from the Salm Family, includes undisturbed tidal and freshwater wetlands, woodlands, agricultural and equestrian lands, and meadows.
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- Farm Manager, Quail Hill Farm
Marillyn B. Wilson donated a conservation easement on a 22.7-acre parcel of woodland in the Northwest Woods section of East Hampton, on the Accabonac Trail, to the Trust. The site contains locally rare woodland of majestic white pine and oak. In 2008, Ms. Wilson donated the conserved property to the Trust, plus an additional 23 acres, to create Wilson's Grove, which includes her architecturally distinctive home and woodland gardens
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President
- Vice President, Senior Leadership
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
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- Administrative Assistant to President & Vice President
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President
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- Donor Relations Coordinator
First project completed: Phillips Pond Preserve, approximately 6 acres donated by Burton Brous between 1984 and 1986, situated between Phillips Pond and the Atlantic Ocean in the Village of Southampton. This ecologically sensitive area is an important gateway to the ocean in the village.
Quail Hill Farm is established in Amagansett on land donated by Deborah Ann Light. One of the original CSA farms in the US, the farmland at Quail Hill, along with the adjoining Light Preserve, is now part of the Trust's Farms for the Future Initiative (see 2010).
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- Assistant, Bridge Gardens
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- Garden Director, Bridge Gardens
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- Senior Stewardship Office Manager
Sylvester Manor's mission today is to cultivate, preserve, and share the Manor's history, telling the stories of all people who lived, worked, and died there.
In the mid-2000s, the Trust began working with the property's owner, Eben Fiske Ostby and his nephew, Bennett Konesni, to develop a conservation plan for the historic 240-acre property, which had been in continuous ownership by the family since 1651. Mr. Ostby and Mr. Konesni co-founded the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm.
Sylvester Manor is on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Manhansett people, who lived on Shelter Island and used the land for fishing, hunting and small-scale crop production. Starting in 1651, the property became a provisioning plantation for the Barbadian sugar trade, worked by enslaved Africans, indentured or paid Native American and European laborers. The 1737 Manor house was established on fertile land at the head of a protected harbor on Shelter Island and served as a residence for one of America's first food industrialists (and an inventor of baking powder), Eben Norton Horsford, as well as functioning as a farm for the past two centuries, serving regional markets.
The Georgian Manor house was home to 10 generations of the original European settler family and from the 17th - 19th centuries, was a place of enslavement of African people.
Sylvester Manor's mission today is to cultivate, preserve, and share the Manor's history, telling the stories of all people who lived, worked, and died there.
In addition to being a working farm, the property is an important early American archaeological site complemented by over 20,000 primary documents - family papers, books and letters, archived at New York University's Fales Library and remaining in the Manor house collection. The University of Massachusetts in Boston has held an archaeological field school on the property intermittently since 1998 and continues to excavate new sites and research the artifacts found.
Sylvester Manor is working to re-establish agriculture on Shelter Island in a sustainable way. Long a part of the Island's heritage, active farming died out on Shelter Island in the 1980s, a demise attributed to residential development and an overpopulation of deer. The preservation of Manor land under the County's farmland program will guarantee that all activities on the preserved land are agricultural in nature.
Sylvester Manor is a 240-acre historic plantation and nonprofit educational farm on Shelter Island, NY, engaging all ages in farm-based and cultural programs.
Working with Eben Fiske Ostby, owner of Sylvester Manor, along with the non-profit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, the Trust helps to conserve 48 acres of this 243-acre estate on Shelter Island. The Trust continues its conservation planning work with the family and the Educational Farm, supporting the restoration of the land to active agriculture at this historic site.
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- Chairman Emeritus of the Board
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- GIS Technician & Stewardship Coordinator
"He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity's sunrise" - William Blake
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Vice President