daytrips
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Tinker Falls
Last summer, Jen and I spent most of our weekends making daytrips around Central New York and adjoining regions. After a couple months of trekking around the Finger Lakes, the Thousand Islands, the Adirondacks, et. al., it occurred to me that daytrips for an upstate New York resident are essentially the process of leaving one’s… Continue reading
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Wolcott Falls
This past weekend, I got it in my head that I wanted to visit a waterfall — not the shallow, industrialized falls that we have here in Fulton, but something out in nature with some height. Fortunately, there are a lot of options within a reasonable distance from home. (When it comes to waterfalls, this… Continue reading
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Fort Stanwix
After visiting Oriskany, I decided to take a short side trip to Fort Stanwix. It’s a little ironic that I would regard Stanwix as the side trip since there’s a lot more there, and historically speaking, the battle at Oriskany was an outgrowth of the siege at Fort Stanwix. The fort is in the middle… Continue reading
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Oriskany
The Oriskany Battlefield State Historical Site is about 50 miles from my house. Despite living so close to it all these years, and despite having read a fair amount about the battle and the larger British Campaign of 1777, I had never visited the site until today. From the National Park Service: Considered to be… Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.
a.k.a. V.J. 