Big concerts not our thing Concerts are a big deal at the fair! But, for JoAnne and I, the big venue concerts are not our thing. They are too loud, and very…
Category: Americana
Posts related to US history, geography, traditions, etc.
Best NYS Fair Food
I’m known as a decent judge of food. So I have to weigh in (pun not intended) on this one. Two of my favorite fair foods this year are not on the poll list. …
Stony Brook State Park
Once a year or so, JoAnne and I like to return to another place we remember from our youth, Stony Brook State Park. It contains a glass-clear stream that tumbles down an…
The Old Welsh Church
Timber-framed Country Churches Did you ever drive by one of those little white timber frame country churches surrounded by cemetery and wonder what it looked like inside? My father-in-law used to pastor…
Visiting a Vanderbilt Home
I knew that the most opulent homes of late nineteenth century in America were built by the Vanderbilt’s, tycoons of the NY Central Railroad. I did not realize how many homes…
Cooperstown Farmers’ Museum
Fun for children but little antique farm equipment It was a fun stop, our late afternoon visit to the Cooperstown Farmers’ Museum. To us as adults looking at what had been collected and…
Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown visit I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but as is often the case, I’m having difficulty making a clean break. Worked today and yesterday, but Tuesday we took off…
Visiting the Nina and the Pinta
The stern of the Nina When Columbus came to America he sailed with three ships. Most famous of them on his first voyage was the Santa Maria. That ship was accompanied…
Fireworks across Onondaga Lake
After our Liverpool Band concert in Johnson Park in Liverpool, JoAnne and I, along with Brenda VanDuser and Jane Kinney stopped along Onondaga parkway to watch the Fairground fireworks. We were a…
Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Conn.
A few weeks ago we visited Keely and Mark and while we were there we took time to relax in the gardens at Elizabeth Park in West Hartford, Conn. I have written…