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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The poem was about all the trees; not any special one. Joyce and Aline both went to Rutgers. </p><p class=MsoNormal>I am sorry that the idiots have been making the butterfly center a target. I am happy that I survived, when Ron and Bob departed this vale of tears. I am no longer trying to move mountains, but spent 18 years tending my beloved as Alzheimers took him. He was splendid, and did it very well indeed. </p><p class=MsoNormal>I celebrate sunrises now, and share a morning meditation with Facebook friends. I am Anne Hillis there. Doug Yanega is battling Murder Hornets; good to see some of you still in the trenches. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:mg930@eohsi.rutgers.edu">Michael Gochfeld</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, January 31, 2022 4:17 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:viceroy@bellsouth.net">Anne Kilmer</a>; <a href="mailto:robert.dana@state.mn.us">Dana, Robert (DNR)</a>; <a href="mailto:MetzlerEH@si.edu">Metzler, Eric H.</a>; <a href="mailto:neil@aurinia.co.uk">Neil Jones</a>; <a href="mailto:leps-l@mailman.yale.edu">leps-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Leps-l] QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Force Butterfly Sanctuary to Shut Down</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I am deeply saddened by the landgrab in The Valley and the threats to Sanctuary staff. Threats are cheap but devastating andn stressful, and all to often followed by action. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I think Joyce Kilmer and THE TREE are gentler topics as we lament a gentler time. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This URL indicates Rutgers Claim to the inspiring tree, but also mentions Alex Michelin's sleuthing and the Mahwah connection. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I've been at Rutgers only since 1980, long after the KILMER OAK was surgically removed. I dobut if today anyone knows the story, although even the fresh-ones who look so young will have learned the poem. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>But if the tree-site and its offspring have nothing to do with inspiration, they are a fitting monument to a great mann and a great Rutgers alumnus. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Anne do you still have your parrot. Tiko was at least 66 years old when he passed away. MIKE GOCHFELD<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2013/09/kilmer-oak-trees-anniversary-stirs-local-lore-on-notable-poet">https://dailytargum.com/article/2013/09/kilmer-oak-trees-anniversary-stirs-local-lore-on-notable-poet</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;min-width: 424px' id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXRhcmd1bS5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDEzLzA5L2tpbG1lci1vYWstdHJlZXMtYW5uaXZlcnNhcnktc3RpcnMtbG9jYWwtbG9yZS1vbi1ub3RhYmxlLXBvZXQ."><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:9.0pt;overflow:hidden' id=LPImageContainer612449><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2013/09/kilmer-oak-trees-anniversary-stirs-local-lore-on-notable-poet" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=240 height=128 style='width:2.5in;height:1.3333in' id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://dailytargum.imgix.net/images/6872be2e-878a-4bed-9d37-357399324b62.jpg?auto=compress&crop=faces&fit=crop&fm=jpg&height=640&width=1200"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt' id=LPTitle612449><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2013/09/kilmer-oak-trees-anniversary-stirs-local-lore-on-notable-poet" target="_blank">Kilmer Oak Tree’s anniversary stirs local lore on notable poet | The Daily Targum</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-height: 100px;overflow:hidden' id=LPDescription612449><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666'>The Kilmer Oak Tree was cut down 50 years ago yesterday, taking with it many layers of local lore surrounding the notable poet Joyce Kilmer, who was born and raised in New Brunswick. Following his graduation from Rutgers Preparatory School, Kilmer attended Rutgers University from 1904 to 1906.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=LPMetadata612449><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6'>dailytargum.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=694 height=2 style='width:7.2291in;height:.0208in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.png@01D816D1.B80D6090"><o:p></o:p></p><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Leps-l <leps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Anne Kilmer <viceroy@bellsouth.net><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 31, 2022 1:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> Dana, Robert (DNR) <robert.dana@state.mn.us>; Metzler, Eric H. <MetzlerEH@si.edu>; Neil Jones <neil@aurinia.co.uk>; leps-l@mailman.yale.edu <leps-l@mailman.yale.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Leps-l] QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Force Butterfly Sanctuary to Shut Down</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=xmsonormal>As well to stay away from politics except where it assaults the butterflies. My computer tells me that at 1:30 a.m. it is 59F and sunny. </p><p class=xmsonormal>South Florida, the former may be true. Trust, but verify. Live long and prosper, my friends. </p><p class=xmsonormal>In the south of Texas, my friend tells me, the hummingbirds come to her feeders; the two that aren’t frozen. </p><p class=xmsonormal>She has a fine assortment of butterflies. </p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal>Sent from <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.microsoft.com%2Ffwlink%2F%3FLinkId%3D550986&data=04%7C01%7Cmg930%40eohsi.rutgers.edu%7C38a9f43698f04aef321e08d9e4864d0a%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C637792088168938429%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=8E9BGMouAmG%2B0ixWWq%2FORobBtVwMLsBpoU8c7eMYzWE%3D&reserved=0">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=xmsonormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:robert.dana@state.mn.us">Dana, Robert (DNR)</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, January 30, 2022 10:57 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:MetzlerEH@si.edu">Metzler, Eric H.</a>; <a href="mailto:neil@aurinia.co.uk">Neil Jones</a>; <a href="mailto:viceroy@bellsouth.net">Anne Kilmer</a>; <a href="mailto:leps-l@mailman.yale.edu">leps-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [Leps-l] QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Force Butterfly Sanctuary to Shut Down</p></div><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Sound advice, Eric. But I don’t think of Yeats’ poem as sarcasm--but a cry of anguish.</span></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=xmsonormal><b>From:</b> Metzler, Eric H. <MetzlerEH@si.edu> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 30, 2022 4:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Neil Jones <neil@aurinia.co.uk>; Anne Kilmer <viceroy@bellsouth.net>; Dana, Robert (DNR) <robert.dana@state.mn.us> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Leps-l] QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Force Butterfly Sanctuary to Shut Down</p></div></div><p class=xmsonormal> </p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='background:#FFC845;padding:5.25pt 1.5pt 5.25pt 1.5pt'></td><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FFF3DD;padding:5.25pt 3.75pt 5.25pt 11.25pt'><div><div><p class=xmsonormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='color:#003865'>This message may be from an external email source.</span></b></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#003865'>Do not select links or open attachments unless verified. Report all suspicious emails to Minnesota IT Services Security Operations Center.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><p class=xmsonormal><span style='color:white'> </span></p><p class=xmsonormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=708 height=2 style='width:7.375in;height:.0208in' id="x_Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D81645.2DA78F20"></p><div><div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>We need to be careful with the sarcastic comments. Those words will be picked up as direct quotes attributable to us. I have experience with this sort of thing working with hostile groups when I was employed by the ODNR. Please Keep the sarcasm private, preferably spoken and not in print anywhere.</span></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></p></div><div><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From southern NM where the butterflies on every sunny day all winter long.</span></p></div></div><p class=xmsonormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=694 height=2 style='width:7.2291in;height:.0208in' id="x_Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D81645.2DA78F20"></p><div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><p class=xmsonormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Leps-l <<a href="mailto:leps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">leps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>> on behalf of Neil Jones <<a href="mailto:neil@aurinia.co.uk">neil@aurinia.co.uk</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 30, 2022 8:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> Anne Kilmer <<a href="mailto:viceroy@bellsouth.net">viceroy@bellsouth.net</a>>; Dana, Robert (DNR) <<a href="mailto:robert.dana@state.mn.us">robert.dana@state.mn.us</a>>; <a href="mailto:leps-l@mailman.yale.edu">leps-l@mailman.yale.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:leps-l@mailman.yale.edu">leps-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Leps-l] QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Force Butterfly Sanctuary to Shut Down</span> </p><div><p class=xmsonormal> </p></div></div><div><p class=xxmsonormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:#FFEB9C'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#9C6500'>External Email - Exercise Caution</span></b></p><div><p> </p><div><p class=xmsonormal>On 30/01/2022 06:39, Anne Kilmer wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=xxmsonormal>The iguanas are having a bad night. They will recover. Our conviction is firm and glorious and we know our goals. 38F by morning in my bit of South Florida. Vaxxed and boosted, with pleasant plans for the day. Flying here, Zebra longwings, Julias, Giant swallowtails and the sun will come up tomorrow. There are always fools, and we need not let them drive the bus. </p><p class=xxmsonormal> </p></div></blockquote><p>Well put Anne, but the problem is that people DO let fools drive the bus. To parody your grandfather's famous poem one of those fools could, if he had the necessary ability, write</p><p>I think that I shall never see<br>A man who's cleverer than me<br>I'll show I'm cleverest of all<br>I'll build a great enormous wall.</p><p>For people who don't get this reference here is a wikipedia reference to the poem Anne's grandfather wrote.</p><p><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTrees_(poem)&data=04%7C01%7Cmg930%40eohsi.rutgers.edu%7C38a9f43698f04aef321e08d9e4864d0a%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C637792088168938429%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=aoqebc1G%2BeVTabyNELD2ZHoOae4bxJ91GC1w9EqfKD4%3D&reserved=0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_(poem)</a></p><p>Neil Jones</p><p> </p></div></div></div><p> </p></div></div><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>