Tuesday

It's 60 degrees and soggy!

• Tuesday: Slowly decreasing clouds across most of CNY, though a few northern and western areas may not see much sun. Chance of a few showers, especially north and west of Utica. Highs in the mid 70s, but cooler where there is less or no sunshine.
• Tuesday night: Becoming Partly Cloudy everywhere. Low in the low 60s.
• Wednesday: A mix of sun and clouds and a bit warmer. Chance of a hit or miss thunderstorm. High: 85, Low: 64

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Firemen's Field, yesterday morning.
But it sure was fun while it lasted!

I had a dandy time, yesterday, driving around and talking with Craig Cipolla a doctoral candidate from the University of Pennsylvania who, as an anthropologist and archeologist, is studing the history of the Brothertown Indians. He's already spent quite a good deal of time with them in Wisconsin and, for the next year or two, will be focusing on this area.

Craig at the Nancy Welch stone off of Van Hyning Road.

Nancy died in 1835 when she was 57 years old. The verse on her stone reads:

Depart my friends
And dry your tears
I must ly hear
Til Crist apears. [sic]


In the Brothertown Road Cemetery, none of the stones are engraved and the plot is so overgrown that you just have to know what you're looking for and inch your way through brambles. His favorite stop was up on Bogusville Hill Road where Lawrence "Buster" Ames took him back through the fields to a peaceful maple grove - the burial site of Samson Occom and many other Brothertons.

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At Savicki's, later on.

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Here's anohter question for people with good memories for stories their grandparents told them: the "Golf Links" appears on the 1907 Map of Waterville - a sizable portion of it within village limits. Any clue as to when it was established, and by whom?

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