Tuesday

It's 34.3 degrees.

WKTV predicts that: "Flurries should be in the air throughout the day, but accumulations would be light or limited. The lake snows may briefly regenerate for a few hours tomorrow night before weakening and dissipating. Wednesday will feature a return to fair skies. Highs tomorrow will struggle due to lack of sun and only reach near 40 degrees. By Wednesday, we should see highs in the mid 40s.
Another storm system will aproach Thursday evening, bringing a period of rain after mid afternoon and lasting into Thursday night. The rain should clear Friday morning, and with some sun Friday afternoon, highs near 60 degrees is not out of the question."

VETERANS DAY

Library Director Jeff Reynolds wrote, yesterday, to say that there were 86 stars on the "veterans' wall"!

A special reception will be held at 6:30 today to honor veterans, and the Library Staff hope that as many veterans who can be there will come! Spread the word!

Guest speaker will be Louis C. Langone, author of
"The Star in the Window."


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Also at the Library, a brand new exhibition on the Gallery wall in the hallway:
works by Munson-Williams-Proctor plein-air student painters whose instructor, Annette Gurdo, brought them to Waterville one fine day last summer.



I'm expecting more information about both Annette and the artists,
but - in the meantime .............


Jeff took these two photographs .........


.......... and I added "watermarks" to protect the images from possible misuse!

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In the stack room, Rita Mack was at the "history iMac," gathering all she could find about her home - the William Osborne mansion on Berrill Avenue - and its various owners. She said that she would really appreciate it if any blog-readers have any information, either personal recollections or family photographs, that tell anything of this building's past.

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It was warm and cozy in the Library, but awfully chilly outdoors, yesterday. Mike Tower was grading earth in the Park ...........


............. the Village DPW was putting protective barrels over fire hydrants .......



......... and lengths of "snow fence" appeared at St. Bernard's ......



.......... and at the Harringtons, north of Sangerfield.

I received an Email from Yvonne Durant Brady, yesterday, with the following request:

"Can you put a note on your site to send in any old photos and information about Town of Marshall Farms - to the Town of Marshall Historical Society? They are going to try and put a Farm Book together. Many farmers received a form in the mail - please send it in as soon as possible. I am not on the committee - but growing up in the Town Of Marshall and being a farmer's daughter - I think this is a wonderful idea ....and thought many read your site everyday.

Old photos, new photos, old stories, new stories - some farms may no longer exist - but the family name is there forever....or the land is still referred to by the last name of the farmer who lived there the longest.

Please mail any information to:

Marshall Historical Society
P O Box 232
Deansboro, NY 13328

(These old barns on Fuess-Cleary Road may have been built by the farm's first owners, some of the township's first settlers - the Bartons.)

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Gary Eckerson has been following the "restoration" of "the Wheeler Block," where the Eckerson's lived in the 1950's. I need to take a photograph of a particular part of the end of the building, and then I'll blog his recollections and the picture, tomorrow!

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Blog-reader Ron Bornick, from Clinton, writes to remind us that the November 12th Meeting of the MVAS (Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society) will start at 7:30 pm, sharp, at the Town of Kirkland Senior Citizens Center in Clarks Mills.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Jason Wright, a post-doctoral associate in Space Sciences at Cornell University will talk to us about "extrasolar" planets. He studied and worked under Geoff Marcy, the man who has discovered around half of the over 300 extrasolar planets orbiting other stars. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Wright and his wife (also an astrophysicist) visit us. Please help us show him our appreciation by attending his program.

Refreshments will be served immediately following his talk followed by the business meeting.

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FOR THE RECORD

Have a Great Day, Everyone!