This is an account of a past "adventure" . On October 1, 2009, my friend Carol and I went to a harvest dinner at a small church in the very small town of Columbus, New York. The dinner was great!
After that we headed towards Sherburne, New York. There is a geocache hidden right in the center of town that we had looked for before. After checking out other peoples logs and realizing that people were finding it, I thought I had a better idea of where to look, but I guess I didn't. We probably spent about ten minutes searching and then we gave up.
We headed to Earlville. On the way we stopped to find a geocache at a fishing access area. This time we were successful, but we were not really thrilled about the light misty rain that we were experiencing. We decided to put geocaching aside and head for the Earlville Opera House.
We drove by it a couple of times without realizing it. We finally went into a small gift shop to ask, and the proprieter was able to point us right to it. We were actually parked across the street from the old opera house.
We went inside and were greeted by a woman who worked there. She told us a bit about the place, and suggested we just look around. We browsed two art galleries on the first floor. One of them had an ammo can on display (geocachers will know why I find this interesting). But the highlight was our self guided tour of the restored opera house, on the second floor.
It is an example of turn-of-the-century architecture with ornate stencilling, a pressed tin ceiling and a beautiful proscenium stage. It is still used for various types of performances but presently it is not heated, so not used in the winter. We wandered around and I took several pictures.
After that we debated about doing further geocaching, but the weather was still pretty awful, so we decided to head for home. We stopped at a farmstand between Earlville and Sherburne, and then at a small grocery store in Sherburne.
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