Downsville ADVENTURE!

I met up with Peg in Delhi at 9:30 and off we went.  She knew the way to Downsville, so I did not need my navigator.  Once in Downsville, we stopped at the hardware store.  I asked directions to the covered bridge and then we drove to it.  We looked for a geocache there, without any success. After leaving the covered bridge area, I stopped at a small wine shop and asked about other historical sites in the area and the girl told me about the chimney in the hamlet of Corbett.  It sounded interesting.

We headed to Corbett and drove through it the first time, so had to turn back.  It is a very small hamlet, which no longer has a post office.  Here are pictures I took:    This is a chimney that was associated with the acid factory.

 This was the "company store"

 and this former schoolhouse is now the Corbett Community Center.

I have to say that Corbett can most likely be classified as a "ghost town" because it is a "shadow of its former self".  After leaving Corbett, we headed back towards Downsville. We stopped at the Old Downsville Cemetery.

Lunch at the OLD SCHOOLHOUSE RESTAURANT was very good.   This is a beautiful place, both inside and out.  I had the patty melt and Peg had the reuben.

We had a little bit of extra time available before our appointment at the Colchester Historical Museum, so we went t the EAGLE DOLLAR STORE.  

We met up with Kay H. Parisi-Hampel 

Colchester Township Historian at the Colchester Town Hall and she let us into the museum, which is very interesting, with lots of artifacts and information. It was especially intereseting to learn about Corbett!  After that we headed back towards Delhi.  I stopped

 to take this picture of the Octagon House in Hamden and also we stopped at the LUCKY DOG farmstore, which Peg had never been to.  

I dropped Peg off at Price Chopper and I went in to get a few groceries.  Then I headed for Oneonta.  I stopped at Chestnut Park to drop off a couple of sweaters for Betty, who is in there for rehab after her recent fall. She gave me the good news that she will be released on Monday. 

My complete set of pictures taken today are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/juneny/sets/72157636418840766

It was a great day but I was really worn out by the  time I got home.

Lady Ostapeck

I went to the photography exhibit at the Foothills.  It is photographs that Lady Ostapeck took..........of dolls dressed up with various scenes.  It is very nice!  Unfortunately, I had forgotten to put the recharged battery back in my camera so I could not take even one picture.  I took a nice long walk at Neahwa, since its a gorgeous fall day here in Oneonta.

QUILTS and MORE: 10/4/13

Got up to a bleak, damp day and decided to visit an old friend in Sidney.  I arrived at her place a few minutes before ten a.m. and we went to the Sidney Historical Society Museum, then to KMart and then to the Chinese buffet for lunch.

I started to head home after dropping her off and then I remembered the Quilt Show at the Majors Inn in Gilbertsville.  I decided to check my GPS to see how long it would take me to get to Gilbertsville and it was less than 20 minutes, so I decided to go.  I drove down a colorful backroad which got me to Route 51 a few miles west of Gilbertsville.

The Quilt Show was magnificent.  All that color and wonderful pattern, inside a beautifully restored old building!  I was there for  about 45 minutes and then I remembered that I was parked in a thirty minute parking spot, so I quickly finished up.  I took a few pictures of the Majors Inn from the outside then headed to my car.  It was parked outside of what used to be a quilt shop, but is now a book shop, so I decided to check it out.

Columbus Quarter ADVENTURE (and more) 10/3/13

Carol told me about the harvest meal at the Columbus Community Church, but she had to work so could not go so I asked Wendy and she said yes.  We left my place about  9:20 and headed to New Berlin and then north on Route 8.  When we arrived at the Columbus Quarter Schoolhouse,  Susan Pope was already there opening up the church and school.  We went into the school first, and then the church.

We drove up 42, following a sign for FRESH PRODUCE.  Before we reached the Amish Farm Stand we passed this barn with a sign saying GOOSEVILLE, NEW YORK.  Wendy and I each purchased an item or two from the stand and talked with the Amish teenage girl.  Then we headed back to Route 8.  Just down the road from the church and school, (right next to the Livestock Auction House)  at a very old, non-maintained cemetery, we found a geocache.

Then we headed to Columbus for their annual harvest meal.  It was roast beef\ and it was delicious

Then we headed back to New Berlin where we stopped at THE DOLLAR GENERAL and SERVICE PHARMACY.  

9/30/13 Day Five of long weekend trip: Drive from Lockport BACK HOME!!!! MONDAY

I packed up my car early and headed back home.  The day started out a bit overcast and gloomy but as I headed west, the sky turned blue and things brightened up and it warmed up very nicely, too!

I made a few "photo-op" stops.  First in Gasport, then Middleport and then Medina.  I definitely need to go back to Medina for some exploration..........Medina has a very interested, old time downtown area and a train museum that I would like to go to.   A bit later on, I stopped to take a couple pictures in Clarendon, NY.  This building is known as the "Stone Store" and is right at the crossroads.

After that, I got on the thruway for a while.

I exited at 40 and headed to Camillus.  Unfortunately, the SIMS STORE MUSEUM that I wanted to go to was closed.  I looked for a geocache near some remains of a stage coach stop.  I didn't have the hint with me, and that would have helped.  I didn't find it, but the ruins are interesting.

Then I headed south to get on Route 20.  I stopped at the SUBWAY in Morrisville and purchased a sub to take home for my supper.  

Day 4 in Lockport (Sunday Sept. 29th)

At church this morning, I met Peggy's "guy friend" and he took us out to lunch at Panera's.  It was a nice lunch.  In the afternoon, Peggy and I headed out to go to a small GERMAN HERITAGE MUSEUM just outside Niagara Falls.  It was very interesting.  Then we went back to 17 and rested up a bit before going to Mike and Janie's house for supper.  Janie served a great meal.  I gave the boys a few small gifts I had brought with me.  On the way home, we stopped at LAKE EFFECT ICE CREAM where I had a small FROZEN HOT CHOCOLATE cone.

Day Three Lockport Trip (Day Trip to Wilson, Youngstown and Ransomville) September 28th)

Since yesterday was our "work day", today was a "play day" and Peg and I decided to go to Wilson for some exploring and geocaching.    Just as we were leaving, Peggy received a phone call that a friend had died of a heart attack, so we took some time to go over to her daughter's house.  I offered to "scratch our plans for the day" but we didn't.

We stopped at a farmstand on 78 on our way towards Olcott.  We were getting hungry and it was getting close to noon, so we had a picnic lunch at KRULL PARK at Olcott Beach before heading west towards Wilson.

We found our first geocache outside a historical building and ran into Peggy's friend Ursula.  Then we went to the Wilson Historical Society.  It was closed, but we looked for a geocache and I took several pictures.  I would like to go into this old schoolhouse someday.

I had read online about a huge fossil of a turtle at Erway's Tree Farm, but their was nothing going on there when we arrived and we could not find it.  We did see a couple of animals there!  

Imagine, a ZEBRA in New York State.

The highlight of the day was hiking a trail at the WILSON-TUSCORORA STATE PARK and finding a geocache.  The trails are very well maintained, but not very well marked.  After Wilson, we got back on 18 and headed towards Youngstown where we found two more geocaches near a couple of public docks.  Our total for the day was FIVE finds, but there were a few we were unable to locate.

On the way home we stopped at a restaurant south of Ransomville.  Our meals were very good.