Wednesday

It's one of those weeks when everything shifts a day: Recyclables will be collected TOMORROW and Garbage on FRIDAY.


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It's 44 degrees. WKTV's forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly sunny and warmer. High in the low to mid 80s.
• Wednesday night: Clear to partly cloudy and mild. Low around 60.
• Thursday: Sun and clouds, warm and humid, with an afternoon thunderstorm possible, especially on either side of the Mohawk Valley. High: 85, Low: 59

The saga of "Kitty's" at the "Utica Historic Marina" continues. This has nothing at all to do, of course, with Waterville, per se, except for the fact that many villagers have enjoyed dining there in the past and - according to the O-D - can again, today.


The "Power Line" is in the news, with meetings scheduled in Utica and Norwich.

Sherri Wright, whose home in N. Brookfield is very close to the railway tracks, has been keeping track of what's going on. She mentioned to me, a few days ago, that one ploy to SLOW DOWN "NYRI" is by citing negative impact on historic sites within one-half mile of the proposed power line. Wouldn't Waterville's "Historic Triangle District" fit that description?

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A few days ago, Doris Stephan asked me if I'd seen this new building on Shanley Road. I hadn't - nor do I know what it will be used for. Livestock, probably? Perhaps a blog-reader knows!


After driving East on Shanley Road, I turned North onto Post Street. The view of farmland "patchwork" on West Hill was pretty enough to make me stop to take a picture.

They're haying in Hanover ........

..... and next to Osborn Avenue, Southeast of Waterville.

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Farther out in the country, protected by the soggy remoteness of their habitats in Nine Mile Swamp, the "Pinkster," Wild Geranium - "Crane's Bill" - and Yellow Lady's Slippers are in bloom!

The late Frank "Red" Kylar and his wife, Mary, took Dick and Allison and me to see the Lady Slippers one Memorial Day about thirty-five years ago and we used to make regular visits, every year. The Swamp, however, can be very tricky: Al Rand, a fine naturalist who also ran a print shop in the bowling alley, went into the swamp one cloudy day, got turned around, became hopelessly lost and spent the night in the company of all imaginable swamp dwellers! He worked his way out in the morning after hearing a train go down the tracks and he never went back there again without a compass!

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A while back I blogged an old photograph of several men in costume in an attempt to identify them. Donna Tool, who had sent the picture, has since determined that it was most likely taken somewhere near Rochester - not in Waterville. However, she writes:

"I do appreciate your effort and am still looking for any information on William O'Toole's home on Hanover Street, Marshall, and/or his occupation. I would so much appreciate a photo of the home. What I can see from the 1900 Federal Census, his house was #49 in order of valuation and he lived with his wife, Margaret, and sons Edward and Richard, between the Campbells and the Lowery home. His son, Richard's recollection was that William O'Toole was a blacksmith, but his health declined in the last few years of his life and the 1900 census indicates he was a saloon keeper. (My husband's recollections include a story that there were FIVE William O'Tooles in the Waterville area during the time of our William O'Toole, our William being nicknamed "Big Bill.")"

Does any of that "ring a bell" with anyone?

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