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[ Wednesday, September 03, 2008 05:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Wicked Wednesday

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Commentary

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The mood this Wednesday should be positive: the citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana have been spared another hurricane lashing, smiling kid are returning to the nation’s class rooms, a bright sun is shining in upstate Rochester, NY, the war in Iraq is winding down, yet another successful Olympic Games have been competed and completed, and the country has two fine candidates for the soon to be vacated office of Commander in Chief.

So, why all the doom and gloom from the pages of the nytimes?

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Today, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Andrew Revkin are at their dypeptic drumbeat worst as they continue their respective personal rants formed by their pessimistic views of the state of the world. Tom is increasingly bitter about the state of the environment and the prospects for peace, Maureen continues to mischaracterize and denigrate the national political change agents with her wicked literary prose, and Andrew continues to slog on in his blog about the SAD state of research and policy in the emerging science of global weather and climate studies.

What is to be done? Some have suggested a boycott of the various messages from the “Anger Liberals” of the old Left. There are good reasons that the circulation and the readership of the nytimes is falling like a rock. The popularity of the press is low and sinking because of it writers and pundits. The nytime’s own David Brooks has said it best: on the PBS News Hour coverage of the RNC from St. Paul , Brooks opined “ The public does not like or trust us.”

Unfazed and without reflection , Brooks’ partisan commentary colleague, 71 year old, Mark Shields previously upstaged by David Gergen and Paul Gigot, continued to prattle on about the obligation of professional press people like himself to vett the background and suitability of the children public service folks Sarah Palin to stand proudly in the public kleg lights.

I am reminded of the time some Santa Rosa public high school civic teachers( one was a former small time journalist) picketed and harassed the chairwoman of the local School Board at the beginning of a new school year. Their labor issue and the public’s right/obligation to know trumped a single citizen’s right to privacy and sanctity of her home. When was the last time you felt good about having your home picketed by noisy advocates ?

Meanwhile, tonight Sarah Palin, the 44 Y/O PTA mom and soon to be grandmother from Wasilla, Alaska, will Stand and Deliver on state in St. Paul, Minnesota. Levi Johnston is also said to be a standup kind of person. For 38 minutes on stage Palin accepted the nomination of her Party, defined herself to the nation, chided the live mic, trip wire prone national media, defended her “little state”, exposed the lack of executive experience of the other candidate team, skewered those who pretend to objectively perform live “dissections” of new faces on the national political scene.

In prime time, Palin ran the table set up a series of bright, forceful, articulate, and funny warmup speakers and left folks like the embarrassing Mark Shields of PBS to slowly twist, turn and trip on his own misanalysis.

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[ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 08:52 ]

Legacy Journal: B&B on the Erie Canal

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Travel

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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

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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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[ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Walking with Religion---Walking with Nature

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By my light’s Americans are tolerant about religion and like to get up close to the wonders of the Natural World.

There are to recent examples that illustrate the point. First is the from a study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust part of the $ 300 billion dollar a year American philanthropy community. Second is Rochester, NY’s Maplewood area along the lower Genessee River Trail

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* The finding the Pews Study of Religion in America includes the fact that Americans tend to be believers, and that they are tolerance of the idea of that there is more than way to practice a religious life.

A recent glorious morning among fellow bikers, hikers, stroolers, and exercisers was spent by a group of senior Oscher Life Long Learning Institute at RIT class members who were led by Hal Schuler. The area is the Center of Catholic Rochester on the bluffs above the gorge of the lower Genesee that for 10,000 years has been exposing a stratified geologic history of more than 400,000,000 years before ending it winding way to Lake Ontario.

What is striking is the juxtaposition of nature and the revolutionary power of technology to change the both the landscape and the human environment and culture.
Yankee enterprise was at work in land deals, shipping by sail, steam and modern barge, building bridges and the Erie Canal, dams, water systems, hydroelectric generating plants, and global companies like Eastman Kodak.

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[ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:32 ]

Legacy Journal: The Toughest Job in America

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Columns

Summary:
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"--- John Wooden

The game of picking the toughest or most impossible job in America is a old as the “Public House” yarns of yore. The new mother of quads, wife of a small town pastor, candidate for “First Lady of the Land”, the first ..., etc. Sport Illustrated has called the MBB coaching job at Oregon State University in Corvallis, “the toughest coaching job in America.” The new hire is Craig Robinson , Michelle Robinson Obama’s brother. He will be trying to recruiting nationally for a Pete Correll Princeton style offense played in the old concrete cave-like Gill Coliseum, the site of the Ralph Miller era success and concerts by Peter Nero and others. The good news is the school’s colors-- orange and black.

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So why is it so tough to be a successful coach?

Consider demanding fans, fanatic alumni, impossible parents, jealous faculty, unruly students, rotating ADs, and prima donna athletes with spotty academics who can not make foul shots in the fourth quarter , sustain a block, or lay down a bunt.

So who has the more difficult job, Craig Robinson or Michelle Obama? The latter is one believes Maureen Dowd of the nytimes. Maureen is of a mind that the Republlic Attach Dogs are out to make mincemeat out of Michelle now that Hillary is temporarily out of the glare of national political race kleig lights. Others have the idea that the impressive Michelle, a Princeton and Harvard Law grad raised on the south side of Chicago can handle the heat and the pace of the race.

Winning basketball games in the Pac 10 is hard and less likely than the Obamas both doing well on the campaign trail and beyond.

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[ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 13:24 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Leanings

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Commentary

Summary:
This posting is a prelude to May Day.

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Lessons Learned during the Week:

* The silent majority is optimistic. Pessimists are a noisy minority.

* Many in that minority are narrowly focused on their opinions without considering facts and context.

* The nature v nurture, secular v religious, local v global bipolar views of the world are long standing and will persist despite well intended attempts to “educate” young and old about shades of gray alternatives.

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[ Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:50 ]

Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie

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Commentary

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Early May, 1846 the Pathfinder, his scout, and their swashbuckling band of Americanos crossed overland from Mexican Alta California and the Sacramento River Valley into the Oregon Territory. There a hundred years of HBC authority was being challenged by American trappers, mappers, traders, missionaries and Yankee settlers of many stripes.

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