The Erie Canal was called “Clinton’s Big Ditch” by people who were very skeptical about the idea of digging a canal through wilderness. DeWitt Clinton was the governor of New York, and he saw the canal as a great opportunity to create infrastructure. This canal was to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, […]
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Today, I’m going to start posting images and stories about the Erie Canal, which is now 200 years old. I hope that, within this blog, I can do this history justice. Today, I am sharing some photographs of the western portion of the canal. The above picture is Lockport, where the locks, called the “Flight
Today, I went to the Orange Poppy Art Studio, located on Baseline Road, across the street from St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church, on Grand Island, for a pumpkin workshop. This workshop was all about decorating a paper mache pumpkin. There were two choices for decorating the pumpkin: paint or decoupage. I already had a pumpkin
part one The pictures here are from days one through seven of Inktober. The prompts are moustache, weave, crown, murky, deer, earring, and starfish. In the days when bears and humans spoke the same language, there was a boy who was best friends with a bear cub who was known only as Baby Bear. The
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Today, I am sharing pictures of bees that I have taken any time I saw a bee busy on a flower. Some bees are better at posing than others.
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What could be better than getting ready for my favorite holiday? It’s all about bright colors and fun. It’s about apples and winter squash and celebrating autumn, as well as getting to be any character you want to be. The only down side to Halloween is that it can be really cold and, as someone
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Today, my friend Anne and I took a tour of the area of Buffalo known as Larkinville. It is situated between downtown Buffalo, Canalside, and South Buffalo. Originally, many of the factories, as well as an administration building, belonging to the Larkin Soap Company were in that area. Streets in that area include Smith Street,
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It’s time for the autumn version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This month, I am going to share stories about some of the adventures that I’ve been on recently. In addition, I’m going to share pictures from the Inktober challenge. In this challenge, I draw a picture in ink every day for the month of
Grand Island’s Nike Base was built during the Cold War as a missile defense site. At the base were Nike defense missiles. This was part of a network to protect major cities from Soviet attack during the Cold War. Since that time, the Nike Base. Here is some more information from AI: “The first Nike
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Last Friday, I went to St. Timothy Lutheran Church to paint wooden ornaments. These ornaments were made by Paul, a local wood carver, and they will be sold at the Erie County Fair. All proceeds from the sale of the ornaments will go to the Make a Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to children with