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It's Recyclables Day
64 degrees at 5:30 a.m.
The YNN Weather Forecast: "Today will be a warm and humid one with temperatures generally topping out in the mid 80s. Low pressure is expected to slowly push eastward which will keep in the threat for scattered showers and storms.
Through the end of the work week dry weather will prevail with just the threat for a hit or miss shower/storm. It will be hot as well with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees.
Temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s should carry over into the weekend with the best chance for showers and storms being on Sunday."
Through the end of the work week dry weather will prevail with just the threat for a hit or miss shower/storm. It will be hot as well with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees.
Temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s should carry over into the weekend with the best chance for showers and storms being on Sunday."
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NEWS
I believe that the telephone systems - both land and cell - are back in working order!
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from the Utica Observer-Dispatch
from WKTV.
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Front Page Headlines
from this week's issue of
The Waterville Times.
"Nashville Comes to Deansboro "
"Meeting On The Mountain"
(two new 46-ers!)
"Making ‘Ted’"
"Nighty Night"
"Village of Oriskany Falls"
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TODAY
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WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Open from 10:00 - 4:00
FARMERS MARKET IN THE PARK
11:00 a.m. - 7:00 P.M.
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Movie Matinée at the Library
1:00 P.M.
(I don't know what the movie is, but it will be shown
on "the big screen" in air-conditioned comfort!)
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CONCERT IN THE PARK
7:00 P.M.
Joe Falk, Folksinger
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A Few Photos
There has been quite a lot of "fixing up" activity at "the gray house" on the corner of Park Place and Sanger Avenue......
........ and also at the Gilchrist residence on Putnam Street.
What is referred to as "the gray house" was built by W. B. Candee, some time before 1874, and the Gilchrists' home, completed in 1896, was built by D. Conger at a total cost of $17,000.
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Fine cones are forming on several of the hop vines at the library, and labels identifying each variety of vine have recently been attached to each pole. I'm told that one is called "Waterville."
All of the Waterville Garden Club's "tubs" of yellow petunias along Main Street are overflowing!
(Can someone tell me how many such "tubs" there are? I've tried to count, several times, but always get distracted... )
North of the village, on Shanley Road, the table at the Landis Farm Stand is filled with fresh flowers and produce.
At Bailey Lake, and elsewhere, Purple Loosestrife is in bloom and the waterlilies at the lake are budded.
Anyone who has lived in Waterville for more than a year or two probably knows where Bailey Lake is, but I've been asked to put more maps on the blog so that newcomers can find things.
From Sangerfield, drive south on Rt. 12 for about 3 miles. Turn left and go another mile-and-a-half or so, up and over the hill.
Bailey Lake was named for very early settlers Azubah Rogers Bailey and her son, Vine, who - according to family geneologists - " .. walked from Mohegan, CT. to Brothertown Oneida Co., NY. around 1780. Azubah Bailey joined the Brothertown Indians under Rev. Samson Occom a Mohegan, CT. Indian. Azubah is buried in the Brothertown Indian Cemetery NY."
As noted in a Utica newspaper, Azubah died in 1823 at the age of 98! Curiously, there is no record of her membership in the "Brothertown" community. A number of her descendants are buried in the Stockwell cemetery.
One of her many descendants sent me this picture of her daughter, who was also named "Azubah."
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Have a great day
- and remember to smile!
