NEW SCOTLAND — The Bender Melon Farm Preserve has special meaning for the Long family.
“When Ryan passed away,” said Timothy Long, pausing to clear his throat as his voice was thick with emotion, “I didn’t sleep for a very long time.”
At any hour of the day or night, he said, he’d throw on his sneakers and hop on his bike — “and I was out here,” he told those who gathered at the preserve on Friday morning…