July 19, 2006: Tree Sit Ends With Ceremonial March to the Estabrook Woods
Molly Tsongas, Rachel Banay, and Page Stites, co-directors of Middlesex Graduates for Estabrook, along
with supporters, friends, and family marched their banner across the Middlesex campus late yesterday
afternoon. The banner, which read "Middlesex, Do The Right Thing - Save Estabrook Woods," was 35-feet
long with 16-inch black letters on a yellow background. The alumni marched straight across the campus
and into the Estabrook Woods, where Middlesex has already cleared approximately 4 acres and constructed
tennis courts. They hung the banner in the trees at the edge of the clearing and concluded their
36-hour protest.
Early on the morning of July 17, Molly Tsongas '00 and Rachel Banay '03 ascended two trees along Lowell
Road and hoisted a large yellow banner. They represent Middlesex Graduates For Estabrook and are staging
this action to protest the school's development of the Estabrook Woods and to invite the school to attend
a mediated negotiation to resolve the 14-year struggle over the development of the woods.
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