Alice Gerard

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

Saturday was a warm and sunny day. I decided to walk to the cemetery, where my dad has been buried. It has been almost four years since he passed away. Sometimes, it seems like yesterday and, sometimes, it seems as if he had been gone for years and years. I chose to take the “scenic

On Sunday, July 31st, Amy and I went to Buffalo’s Garden Walk. It is a big event that involves hundreds of gardens and dozens of volunteers. The garden walk gives Buffalo gardeners the chance to show off a wide variety of gardens. Some of the urban gardens were very tiny. The gardeners were able to

On Saturday, July 30th, the eleventh annual Paddles Up! event was held at Beaver Island State Park in Grand Island, New York. This event is the result of cooperation between the Town of Grand Island, the Niagara River Greenway, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. The day started off