Alice Gerard

Yesterday, I went to a presentation on the emerald ash borer. The presentation was divided into two parts. The first part was the “hands-on” part, which took place outside, near the Grand Island Town Hall parking lot. There were several people who served as group leaders, and the participants chose which group they wanted to […]

Note: Today’s blog post is about one of the joys of autumn. Pumpkins symbolize autumn, so I thought that I would share pictures and poems about pumpkins. The pumpkin is a type of winter squash, and its origins are in North America. Pumpkins can be grown in every continent but Antarctica but that’s OK because penguins

Note: The Rev. Canon Earle King has been rector of Saint Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church for more than 25 years. Being an Episcopal priest is a second career for Father Earle. His first career was in music. He studied organ at the Eastman School of Music and became an organist. He later attended graduate

For a few years, I have been participating in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. It is held four times a year. The challenge is to write a blog post every day for an entire month. So, today is the first day of the October challenge. Today, Saint Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church in Grand Island,

My Saturday was a combination of the ugly and the beautiful, things rejected and things cherished, brokenness and wholeness. It was a contrast between things that had been used up and discarded and things that brought joy to humans.  At about nine o’clock on Saturday morning, I joined a group to clean up along Spicer

Here are some images from a fun weekend with a group from Saint Martin in the Fields Church in Grand Island, New York. We went to Camp Duffield in Delevan, New York. Camp Duffield was originally located in Allegany State Park, not as a camp, but as a yearly summer conference for young people. The

On September 1st, the Grand Island Historical Society had its first meeting of the 2016-2017 year. We had a potluck dinner at River Lea, and people brought a variety of tasty dishes. It is now late summer, and it was nice to observe the view from Beaver Island State Park, as well as eat a

The Labor Day weekend is considered to be the unofficial end of summer. Fortunately, summer continues because the autumnal equinox is actually on Thursday, September 22nd. The Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer because, immediately after it’s over, school starts, bringing vacation time for students and teachers to a screeching halt. Here

On Monday, August 29th, I went to visit the Grand Island farmers’ market, located on the grounds of Tom Thompson’s farm, 2487 Long Road. It is quite a delightful place to have a farmers’ market. Every now and then, a chicken will walk up to you, ready to make a new friend. Tom’s chickens are

Writing about summertime in a blog would not be complete without a post about the garage sale. These outdoor sales, usually done on Fridays and Saturday, are ways for people to get rid of stuff that is still good but that they no longer need or want. It fits in well with the concept of