Stories From Tinicum: New Conservancy Brochure tells the inspiring ...

Little steps make big footprints
Stu and Sally Horn support a handful of local
environmental causes, but it’s the Tinicum
Conservancy and its work that give them the
greatest satisfaction.
“The Conservancy is doing things that we feel
are meaningful,” Stu says. “They are tuned
into what needs to be done—they spend their
money well.”
The Horns’ generosity started with putting
their seven acres along the Tohickon Creek
under conservation easement—and donating
a portion of the money they received for that
back to the Conservancy. “It was the right
thing to do,” Stu says. They followed
that up with other monetary donations,
including a generous grant that funded
this brochure.
“Stu and Sally are an example of what makes
supporters so critical to our organization,”
says TC Executive Director Jim Engel. “Their
contributions and the donations of other likeminded
people in our community make it
possible for us to achieve our goal—to protect
our rural character and natural resources.”
The Horns have been long-time residents of
the township, although in the beginning, that
residency was part time. They owned a weekend
house on Bridge 5 along the Delaware
River and commuted there from Stu’s job with
“The Conservancy is tuned into
what needs to be done—they spend
their money well.”
sTu and saLLy Horn
Mobil Oil in Princeton, N.J. When he retired in
the early 1990s, they looked for a more
permanent place and found it adjacent to Ralph
Stover Park in the southern part of the township.
The Lenape camped there long ago, and artist
Wolfgang Roth, a previous owner who also
loved the creek, had his ashes scattered there.
Stu and Sally delight in standing on the creek
bank, savoring the sound of the ever-rushing
water. The fact that their land is protected from
development is critical to the Horns.
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