I Love New York Travel

This is a bateaux, a flat-bottom boat used during New York’s colonial days. It was lightweight, enabling the users to carry it across the dry land; but flat-bottomed for stability in New York’s rugged streams and rivers. This reproductions sits at Fort Stanwix, in Rome, NY.

This old writing desk (a good reproduction) is on display at Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY. Unbelievably, such display are out in the open– not behind glass enclosures– for visitors to handle. Despite the multitudes of visitors and hands touching the displays, everything is in such good condition–all taken care of very well. The people’s pride of our history really shines through with how well the displays are treated.

Another photo from our trip to Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY. The fort has many small displays of everyday colonial life. We love going there. Life was so much simpler 250 years ago… but so much harder, too.

I haven’t been as diligent with this blog and my cooking blog. My attentions are turned toward the house and yard, which need work. We’re estimating a paint job on the exterior of the house these days…

Taken out by the Hinckley Reservoir; I forgot which road.

I love this photo. I love the house! Greek Revival architecture is everywhere in rural Upstate. Farmers of the 1840s built these elegant houses at the edges of their cornfields, and many still remain. It’s quite ironic to drive by these homesteads, with their busted old tractors in the front yard, scraggly corn shocks dotting the backyard, and a Gone With the Wind-esque white elephant towering over the hillside.

Yet the architecture is so clean and lovely.