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Episode #253 January 31, 2010
TURNBULL
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A New Hike, Bike, and Ski Trail
in Old Forge
There's a new trail that takes you from the village of Old Forge (trail head just behind the school) to the McCauley Mountain Ski Area. This trail is for hiking, biking and cross country skiing. It takes you along an old tow path used by downhill skiers in the 1930s & 40s, before the McCauley Mountain was established. You can see some old downhill ski equipment along your hike, like an old truck that was retrofitting with a shive to tow skier up the hill so they could ski back into town. Die-hard skier would hike beyond the tow hill to McCauley, carrying their skis on their backs.
Polar Bear Ski Club Annual Consignment Ski and Pre-season Pass Sale
Saturday, Nov. 7th 9am-noon
McCauley Mountain Ski Area, Old Forge
with Mark Werchowski
Sweetheart Stroll
Saturday Feb 13th
10am-5pm
Local Arts                      sponsored by Villa Isidoro
Chili Days
Sunda, Jan 31
11:30-2pm
Kirkland Art Center
Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary
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The Goodyear family donated some of their land on the shore of Otsego Lake to Glimmerglass Opera and also to SUNY Oneonta as a field station. The GoodYear Swamp Sanctuary is open to the public dawn to dusk. There are five acres of wetlands with developed trails and boardwalks and a guide book available at the trail head sign in.
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Touring Main Street in the Mohawk Valley
Main Street, Morrisville
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On the corner of Bleecker and AcademyStreets in East Utica is the historic
Utica Free Academy. Founded in the early 1800s, just after Old Fort Schuyler changed its name to the Village of Utica, the school is imbedded in the history of the community it served for 17 decades. You can learn more about the school in Malio Cardarelli's book, Cornerstone of Pride -History of Utica Free Academy
Morrisville was named for its founder, early settler, Thomas Morris and was once known as Morris Flats. It became the Madison County Seat in 1817. The current Madison Hall is the 3rd courthouse to stand on the site in the center of the village. The predecessor to the current building was burned to the ground, mysteriously, on the eve of the trial of one of the Loomis Gang members.
Visit www.madisonhall.org
Benefit for Haiti
Sunday, January 31 at 2pm
Federated Church Main St.
West Winfield
MV Center for the Arts presents
Soup & a Movie
Sunday, January 31 at 4pm
$8-$10
Black Box Theatre, Stone Mill
Canal Place, Little Falls
This week we tour a Main Street in an area we
haven't visited before -Morrisville. What a fun little
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(315) 429-3210
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Ollabelle
Friday, Feb. 5th at 7:30pm
Otesaga Resort Hotel
Cooperstown
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Madison Hall Indoor Farmers Market
1st Saturday of the month
Local produce, meats, cheese, eggs, dairy products and wine will be sold.  Vendors will sell nutritious products from the second floor ballroom, which is accessible by stairs or elevator.
Madison Hall
Morrisville Engine House
served the Village of Morrisville Fire Department for over 80 years. It fell into disrepair in the 1990s until it was turned over to the Village for the purpose of restoration. The Madison Historic Preservation Commission spearheaded the project.
The Engine House on Main Street has been thoughtfully restored. Click on picture to the right to see the building before restoration
The Engine House was built round 1850 to house the fire pumper
Morrisville Public Library
Morrisville State College Wildlife Museum
Copesetic Inc.
Purple Salamander Cafe
Copper Turret Restaurant
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Morrisville Part 2
In the 160-year-old former Kingman residence is the Morrisville Public Library. In 1903 Susanna Phelps Gage gave her childhood home as a gift to the people of Morrisville. The house, a beautiful Victorian Gothic built in 1855 by Civil War Captain Lyman Kingman, was to be the first public library in the village.
Located on the first floor of Bicknell Hall the Wildlife Museum was the result of donations made predominately by Maurice Ireland, Thornton Hildebrand and Frederick Manchester. The collections represent specimens of large
animals from North America and Africa, butterflies, waterfowl and birds' eggs. Currently the Wildlife Museum is open to the public by appointment.  Call 1-800-258-0111
The models made at Copesetic Inc. in Morrisville might look like the real thing, but they are just models made for the marketing and developing of new products. This past year the company produced prototypes for the hot new game, Beatles Rock Band, for Nintendo.
A brand new cafe opened last month in Morrisville, The purple Salamander Cafe. It is open daily for breakfast & lunch.
MV Living Viewer  Special
Free Homemade Dessert
with your order of a breakfast or lunch entree
Today only (Sunday, January 31, 2010)
Main St., Morrisville
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The building that now houses the Copper Turret was originally built in 1814. The building has been lovingly renovated to showcase these original design features and to complement them with copper accents on the fireplaces, a copper top on the bar, a vaulted ceiling in the Turret room and beautifully reproduced windows throughout.

The Copper Turret serves as a learning laboratory for students in with a wireless classroom and learning kitchen.
Vartan Poghosian, Potter
Since our last visit with Vartan four years ago, he has discovered and has been exploring the art of Crystalline glazing. This time-consuming process involves utilizing glazes that form crystals at a maintained high temperature. Vartan teaches pottery at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. His bowls are for sale today during Chili Days to raise money for the art center.
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Built on the site of an early school-
house around 1850, the Engine House
The Engine House is open for tours by appointment.
Call (315) 363-4632
village to visit! Besides great places to eat, like the new Purple Salamander Cafe, fine dining at the Copper Turret, or the local diner, there's a Main Street filled with history and beautiful architecture. There's also the opportunity to see an antique fire pumper in its original firehouse and an amazing collection of mounted North American and African animals at the Wildlife Museum at Morrisville State College! What a great time we had touring Main Street!

Next week we visit a Main Street that few people
know as Main Street -except, maybe, children.
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