The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 51, December 16, 2007, Article 28

NEW YORK PENNY HARVEST FIELD DISPLAYS 100 MILLION CENTS

[The New York Times published a report on an unusual massive
display of Lincoln Cents accumulated in a fund-raising effort.
-Editor]

One million dollars — give or take a few cents — landed at
Rockefeller Center today.

Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined
more than 300 elementary and middle school students from
New York to unveil the “Penny Harvest Field,” an exhibition
featuring an estimated 100 million pennies, most of them
collected by children, between Oct. 22 and Thanksgiving.

The pennies have been placed on a pedestrian walkway between
50th and 51st Streets, and Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the
Americas. The Harvest Field, as was explained in a Times
article by Vincent M. Mallozzi last week, was designed by
the architect James S. Polshek and sponsored by Tishman
Speyer, the company that controls Rockefeller Center. It
will be open free to the public every day from 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. through Dec. 31.

The exhibit is the culmination of the 17th annual Penny
Harvest, a national, yearlong education program by Common
Cents, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement
among young people.

Early next year, most of the pennies will be returned to
the students — who, with the help of their teachers, will
decide which charities to give the money, too. Last year,
448,768 Penny Harvest students in New York City collected
$643,840.83 in pennies from their neighbors and relatives,
and that money went to make 1,361 grants and support 315
neighborhood service projects. Common Cents anticipates
similar levels of giving this year.

To read the complete article, see:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/making-cents-for-children-at-ro
ckefeller-center/

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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