Friday morning

It's 49 degrees and sunny.

Great Day for the Boy Scout Rummage Sale
at 1518 Hanover Road!

• Friday: A mix of sun and clouds. Afternoon rain showers likely, with a few thunderstorms containing small hail possible. High in the upper 60s to near 70.

• Friday night: Partly cloudy with rain showers likely. Low in the upper 40s.
• Saturday: Scattered rain showers. Otherwise, sun and clouds. High: 66
• Saturday Night: Mainly clear and cold. Frost possible in the North Country. Low: 43, but pockets of 30s in the Adirondacks and North Country
• Sunday: A mix of sun and clouds. High: 68, Low: 50

From the Observer-Dispatch: Last Surviving Ward Brother Dies in Munnsville.

Yesterday afternoon/evening's thunderstorm missed Waterville, but areas to the North got whipped.

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This might be the day that you'll get your last look at a landmark;
one which played a large part in Waterville's history.

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The next REO photographs were taken yesterday.





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Over in Bouckville, it was getting busy. At around noontime, traffic on Route 20 was bumper-to-bumper.


There were lots of lookers ...........


and a fair number of shoppers.

On Canal Road - between the Landmark Tavern and Route 46 North of Hamilton, hundreds of dealers waited for one o'clock and the opening of the main field.

Quite unaware and unruffled by any other events in the world, a beautiful white egret fished in the pond at Lyon's Mills.

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Today, if you're driving from Waterville to Clinton by way of Hanover - where the view is best - slow down and give a thought to a man who was born in the white farmhouse on Grant Hill two-hundred years ago today.


In June 1835 Asahel Grant, M.D., sailed from Boston with his bride Judith to heal the sick and save the world. Their destination: the town of Urmia, in northwest Iran. Their intended flock: the Nestorian Christians who lived there and in the mountains of Hakkari, across the border in Turkish Kurdistan.

Into the next eight years Grant packed ten lifetimes’ worth of danger, traversing deserts and glaciers, tending the sick, breaking bread with thieves and murderers, and narrowly escaping death from drowning, disease, and assassination. By 1840 he had lost Judith and two daughters to disease; yet by the time he died, at age 36, everyone in the mountains knew his name, and thirty years later Muslims, Christians, and Jews still spoke of "Hakim Grant" with reverence. Grant is buried in Mosul, Iraq, where he died in 1844.

Gordon Taylor's book about Grant - Fever & Thirst - is available at the Waterville Public Library and the Deansboro Library.

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It'll be a twin bill at Fenway, starting at 1:05, when the Sox host the Angels.

Have a Great Weekend!