REMINISCING: A Day at the Cottage

I’m going to ride the Lake Ontario wave for this week’s “Reminiscing.” No pun intended. Well, maybe just a little bit. My waves will not be nearly as destructive as the waves on the lake right now, though. No, I thought I might talk just a little bit about some of those days I spent on the lake as a kid.

The Mighty Lake Ontario in 1973

With Niagara County declaring a state of emergency over rising water levels in Lake Ontario yesterday, reference was made to the 1973 lake levels that caused major damage along the lakeshore.  The current levels are very close to those heady days in the late winter of 1973. What happened back then? How much damage was done? Who out there remembers those days?

These Old Walkin' Shoes: On the Road Again

This week is Spring Break for Wendy and the kids. We try to take the girls to a museum or something for a day trip when we have breaks like this. We’ve gone to the Strong Museum in Rochester, the Buffalo Museum of Science, and some other local attractions. This time, we made plans to go a little bit farther than normal. We were going to take the girls to the Women's Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls.

These Old Walkin' Shoes: If You Could Read My Mind

A couple months ago, I wrote about the Guns of Seneca, which were the strange booms that occasionally happen around here. In continuing in that same vein, I had a flashback to the summers of my youth and the mysteries I saw over Lake Ontario while it was cloaked in darkness of those warm nights. I'm talking about the lights on the lake. If you live near the lake, you might already know what I'm about to tell you.

REMINISCING: Ready for a Sunday Drive?

Well, the weather is finally starting to get nice after a very odd start to the month of April. With the sun shining today as I type this, I can’t help but think of those days when I was a kid and dad said it was time to go for a ride. Where were we going? Who were we going to see? No one really knew, but we were going out as a family for a Sunday drive.