Chick Stead a local story teller came to speak with our class and other today. He told stories of him as a young boy and all about his family. He is from the Ramapo tribe in New York and is quite the leader. Walter Chuck Stead has led the long fight for cleanup of a major Superfund site in New York’s Torne Valley. But he’s done much more than that. He has documented the region’s history, helped give a voice to the area’s indigenous people, and built an environmental education center to teach future generations. He is a teacher at Cornell cooperative ext and has been working to rebuild the salt box that he can use with his students.When the project is complete, the Saltbox will be the home of the Ramapo Saltbox Environmental Research Center (ERC), a field research center designed to examine the long-range impact of paint sludge contamination, the result of Ford Motor Company's dumping during the 1960’s and 70’s. He is very passionate when he speaks and I really enjoyed learning about the damage that Ford did back in the 1960s and how they are finally forced to take some sort of responsibility for it. Here are some video's of him from you tube; there are lots more check them out He is great!!
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