When I went to language school in Antigua Guatemala for eight weeks back in 1987, I stayed with a Guatemalan family. That was part of the program. You live with a family that does not speak English, which offers you two options: 1) speak Spanish or 2) don’t talk. Anyone who knows me knows that […]
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Recently, I’ve been walking through Buckhorn Island State Park. It is a wildlife preserve and an Important Bird Area. Buckhorn Island State Park is a good example of the wetlands of the northeastern part of the United States. It features many varieties of tall grasses and cattails, as well as numerous species of migratory birds.
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The Niagara River Greenway Commission hosted the fifth annual Paddles Up event on July 24th. It was held at Beaver Island State Park, at the southern end of Grand Island. The event featured people in canoes and kayaks, who followed a preset course in the Niagara River. I joined Larry Austin, the editor of the
Walk for a Nuclear Free Future: As a child, I believed that the world would be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust before I could grow up. As a result, the “what do you want to be when you grow up, dear” questions took on an abstract quality for me. Well, I am happy to report
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The Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, located near Buchanan, New York, is a source of much controversy and conflict for people in the Hudson Valley. This power plant is now due to be relicensed for twenty years. Opponents of the plant are hoping that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission will deny the plant relicensing.
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The Mohawk Community, located about seven miles west of Fonda, New York, near the beautiful Mohawk River, was a peaceful, glorious place to spend a rest day. In the distance, we could see tree-covered hills. We were surrounded by pastures with horses and cows. Not far away was a spring with refreshing cold and very
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On April 10th, I got on an Amtrak train heading east. I got off at a beautifully restored train station in Utica and rejoined the Walk for a Nuclear Free Future that day. It has been quite the adventure, rejoining the walk after leaving it in Rochester. The scenery had changed greatly. I was out
At the April 1st meeting of the Grand Island Historical Society, June Crawford presented slides and told the story of the Graycliff Estate, located on the shores of Lake Erie in Derby, New York. The Graycliff Estate was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was built between 1926 and 1929. The house was planned to
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After breakfast on March 20th at the Seneca Nation’s Tonawanda Territory, we all got into cars and rode to Middleport. If we had walked from the Tonawanda Territory to our end point in Albion that day, we would have walked thirty miles. My opinion on walking thirty miles in one day is “let’s not and
Two days after we left the Tuscarora Nation in the Town of Lewiston, we arrived at the Seneca Nation’s Tonawanda Territory. This territory straddles two counties — Erie and Genesee — and the town closest to it is Akron. When we left Lewiston, we traveled east through Sanborn until we arrived in the City of
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