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[ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 08:52 ]

Legacy Journal: B&B on the Erie Canal

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Travel

Summary:
The Tow Path on the Erie Canal is a place with a connection to a significant part of the economic history of the entire region.

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* A small group of bicyclists departed the Adam’s Basin Inn B&B , on Washington between Spencerport and Brockport, after fueling up with a filling gourmet breakfast prepared and serviced by our host Pat Haines.and her husband.

* Pat’s husband drove us and our bikes to our departure site 27 miles downstream to the west. Rural cobblestone farming country was the scene along Rt. 104 running parallel to the Lake Ontario shoreline.

* Our return bike route included no locks, but plenty of canal cross roads. After a lunch break, a chat this a transcontinental biking Scots lass, were returned to the Inn after 8 hrs for a shower and and a planned dinner out at a family Greek restaurant in the Victorian center of the college town of Brockport.

* One highlight of the two night one day our trip out of Rochester was the opportunity of visiting the Canal authority workmen manning the barges, tenders and dredges docked at Adam’s Basin. The bridge bells that sound the lifting of the bridges for the passing boat traffic adds to the authenticity of the setting.

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[ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Monroe County: Politics, the Carousel, and the Onterio Beach

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Feature

Summary:
Today, the RIT-OLLI summer senior strider group was out for a stroll and local history lesson focusing on Charlotte and the Port of Rochester,NY on the lower Genesee.River. Points of interest included the cemetery, the lighthouse, the boat basin, the yacht clubs, the Ferry Building boondoggle, the secret walk between Beach St. and Lake Ontario, and the pristine carousel at the Ontario Beach Park run by Monroe County.

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* Monroe County’s historic Dentzel Menagerie Carousel at Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte is open for the 2008 Season. This year is the carousel’s 103rd continuous season at the Park, where it first opened in 1905.

The carousel was carved and created by the firm of G.A. Dentzel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed at Ontario Beach Park in 1905, and has remained in its original location, ever since. The carousel is a menagerie model and consists of 52 riding animals. Rides are one dollar, or unlimited all day for five dollars.

Smaller versions exist in Davis and Santa Barbara, California. Carousel restoration is done in Albany, Oregon.

Meanwhile, out west in Sun Valley, Idaho, Allen & CO is sponsoring its annual media smoozefest and flyin for the rich and famous. For my money, I far prefer the thrill of floating with friends, fishing, camping, and watching the Big Horn Sheep watering along the banks of the Salmon River to the north of Sun Valley. But, that is a story for another time.

* Oh yes, Politics. Legacy N.Y. State Senator Rep Joe Robach of Monroe’s 56th District is in a dog fight to keep his seat in Albany.

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[ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 09:05 ]

Legacy Journal: 50th Malin High School Reunion

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Events & Meetings

Summary:
I will miss my 50th high school reunion this month. Some of the hearty remaining Malin Mustang Class of 1958 will be gathering for the event in the California border ag, railroading, lumber and Kingsley AF Base region of Klamath Country, Oregon.

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Some of us left, others left and returned, others stayed, more than a few have passed on, or simply vanished. What endures is the power of place and the experience of coming of age in a “Heartland” community of significance and substance. Malin is a continuing presence inscribed in memory and recorded in fact. For me, the frozen memories have become even sweeter and more meaningful with the mellow passage of the years.

My first message to my classmates was a short and long forgotten high school graduation ceremony farewell address in the Mustang’s small gym in 1958. The second was a note send from Viet Nam in 1968 for the 10th anniversary gathering. The Fisk family with four kids made the Malin Community Park gathering in 1978. Now, in 2008, it is time for an update.

After four years in Eugene, four years in Portland, a year in Los Angeles two years in the U.S.Army, four years at UCSF, thirty years in Santa Rosa, CA, and four years in Davis, CA, I am retired and now live in Brighton, NY near Rochester in the western Lake Ontario region of the Empire State and near the best of attractions ---- two young bright, beautiful, active, healthy and loving granddaughters.

The Eire Canal, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, the University of Rochester, and the Eastman School of Music are still past of the fabric of Monroe County. Biking the canal towpath, touring the old Eastman Home and Gallery, attending concerts and recitals, participating in Rochester Institute of Technology- Athenium-Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes and daily workouts with a lap swimming emphasis are currently part of the routine.

Internet, Information and Instructional Technology are at the core of my weekly volunteer contributions at several local senior activity services including a health and exercise emphasis . And, what is not to like about Digital Photography, image editing, and Web Publishing. It is a great way to keep up with friends and family. The latter group includes sisters Mary Jayne in Talent, and Kathy in Eugene; kids include Erika Lindsey at the URSM medical center, Tanya Ashley of Cottage Grove, Tiffany Danielle of Hawaii, and Damon Marshall of San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Malin memories, friends, mentors, and rites of passage continue to sustain, refresh, and inspire me daily.

Fondly.

Doug Fisk

BTW, my tough and trusty Orange and Black Mustang jacket bite the dust just two years ago.

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[ Thursday, April 03, 2008 06:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash

Section:
Opinion

Summary:
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ----- Aristotle

* The University of Rochester and the local Squash Racquet community is hosting a “Satellite” Pro event. Erika and Jon Little of Brighton are hosting Armando Olguin , a teaching and touring Pro from the San Francisco Bay area.

As the ground unfreezes, it near time to plant what the Seneca Indians call the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans and squash.

* It is also time to squash a few delusions and predictions : the pending American Hurricane Season, the Future of the American Democrat Party, the state of the American Economy, the failure of American Public Education, the degenerate state of the New American Generation, the Coming Collapse of the Global Climate System, ---- etc.

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: The game of Squash seems to be having a mini surge of popularity. Young kids are being signed up by their parents for lessons in Manhattan, NY to Marin Country, CA. Elitist and expensive, it is seen as a way to starting networking toward the Ivy League and Wall Street. In 2003 Forbes magazine rated the game as the # one fitness sport. Impact injuries are rare. Cardio-aerobics are rated at at 800 - 1,000 kcal/hr among top Pros. Upper, core, and lower body muscle strength and speed are required. Endurance, mental toughness, consistency, and practice discipline complete the competition package.

Clearly, the game has gone global with roots in the British Empire and Commonwealth. Youngsters of 23-26 are top ranked. English is the universal language of the sport. The top players come from Egypt, Scotland, Pakistan. Mexico, Colombia and Canada contribute their share of young, mobile talent. College recruits in upstate NY come from Japan, the Ukraine, and even Pennsylvania. Senors also play the game

:: Prof Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs and Steel fame and fortune, continues, as he has for 10 years now, to remind us from his video reruns that geography, geology, climate, and the accidents of migration have much to do with food production, animal domestication, surplus, technology , social organizations and the sustainability( or not) of primitive cultures. The recently the DNA story, grave site
Aztec archeology in Peru, and Native American finding in Oregon have all added complexity and new time lines to the more simple Diamond narrative and interpretation.

::: Experts from Colorado fearlessly continue to make their embarrassingly bad annual predictions. The 2008 Hurricane season edition in now out. A related inconvenient embarrassment is the $6 per bushel of corn and the $4 per gallon price of diesel full. What happened to all the environmental happy talk about how using corn alcohol and stopping oil exploration and drilling was key to controlling global fever.

Today’s temperature bullseye is Yuma, Arizona where the all time low of 13 degrees was recorded within the past 5 years. The another bullseye is the international hot spot , Venezuela, where General Chavez has announced his intent to nationalize the cement industry. Cemex of Mexico is the major external investor

In addition, the Wigley article from the NCAR on the assumptions of the IOCC on carbon emissions rates and published the early April edition of Nature, the weekly international science journal, is yet another wakeup call at the credibility of some of the IOCC Climate Commission’s claims. From nytimes., science writer, Andrew C. Revkin does a partial journalistic mea culpa on his previous “ robins in Inuit land” reporting. To his credit, Revkin does acknowledge that the error was reported by the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on a blog site at World Climate Report..

Meanwhile, the good new is that the baseball and local lake and stream trout season is underway.

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[ Saturday, February 16, 2008 08:23 ]

Legacy Journal:Weather Futures

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Environment

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* Apparently, there is uncertainty and market risk in the weather. Using the Chicago Exchange, snow shovel manufacturers are able to hedge their inventory by purchasing a form of insurance called a weather future. Business is reported to be brisk.

Meanwhile, snow and cold continues across the county.

* The flag at the local Mormon gathering place is still a half mast with the passing of the LDS leader.

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