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This week we welcome our new Road Trip sponsor, Skinner Auto Group, located in Richfield Springs and in Herkimer. Roger Skinner is dedicated to the local community and a local history buff as well, and we're fortunate he believes in our show. In celebration of our new Road trip sponsor, we visit Richfield Springs. It's hard to believe our last Road Trip to this village was 3 1/2 years ago! There are new things to see and do and the village is looking sharp with newly restored buildings and, of course, the famous clock.
Thanks for traveling with us, Lance and Sharry
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began as a failed run for Utica mayor. As a project for his college students, they projected by how much he would lose the election. He discovered he was pretty good at it and in 1984 Zogby International was founded. He just published a new book, The Way We'll Be.
"All hail Zogby, the maverick predictor who beat us all," proclaimed the Washington Post in November 1996 after Zogby alone called that presidential election with pinpoint accuracy.
John Zogby grew up in East Utica the son of Lebanese Catholic immigrants. His career in polling
Baseball fans inspired the formation of the Cooperstown Bat Company in 1981. In 1991 it grew into its very own building in Fly Creek. Here raw billets of wood are turned into personalized one-of-a-kind baseball bats. The retail store is located at 118 Main St., Cooperstown.
Longeretta Law Firm
298 Genesee St., Utica
735-6162
Road Trip to Richfield Springs
Tara Morgan Farm at "Federal Corners"
Tramontane Cafe
Open Mic every Sunday
Signup sheet available at 5pm, timeslot selection at6:45, open mic starts at 7 pm sharp. 15 minute slots, pretty much anything goes! Any questions 732-8257
Other places we visited
Richfield Springs
Consignment Shop
148 Main Street
(315) 858-0340
Local Arts, Neptune Studio
Get in the Holiday Spirit
Today (Sunday Dec. 7)
Breakfast with Santa 8am-Noon
Shriner's Park, Whitesboro
St. Nicholas Day Celebration Noon
Fort Klock, St. Johnsville
Holiday Tea 12:30pm
Earlville Opera House
Christmas on
Main St. in Little Falls
Sat., Dec. 13
Parade starts at 9am at the Fire Department Evening Times article
For nearly a century, Richfield Springs was a resort and spa destination for the rich and prominent city folks who came to drink, inhale and bathe in the famous Ganowauges (stinking water) from the Great White Sulphur Springs. One such famous individual was Theodore Roosevelt who came here in 1883 to recover from an attack of asthma. Other notables include Cyrus Hall McCormick who built Clayton Lodge, a summer retreat on the outskirts of town where he and his family summered.
Where Cemetery Road meets Butternut Road is a place once known as Federal Corners -the area's original settlement. Today, it is the location of Tara Morgan Farm. John J. Donnelly welcomes visitors to the area as guests at his rental house that overlooks the pastures and rolling hills of Richfield Springs.
Butternut Barn was opened in June 1977. The shop is located in an old Carriage Barn. The handhewn beams & wooden floors presents the perfect atmosphere for our Country, Folk Art & Primitives Marketplace. This family owned business is celebrating 32 years in business.
The Coming of Christmas
Today (Sun., Dec 7, 2008) from 10-5
Andela Products manufactures products designed and marketed directly to the recycling industry. The Andela Glass Pulverizer was the first product designed for the glass recycling industry. The glass processing facility pulverizes, washes, dries, and screens post consumer waste glass. The resulting glass products are bagged and sold as sandblast abrasives and decorative landscape material.
In the bright yellow building on Main Street is Rick Worden's Antiques, located in the old New Brunswick Hotel. There are thousands of unique items covering two floors and 4,700 square feet!
December Sale 30% off almost everything!
If it's not fun -don't do it. That's Richard and Harriet Sessler's approach to their retirement "business" The Sweet Tooth Cafe. They are entertaining guests at their restored late nineteenth century monument works turned restaurant. Once a month Harriet & Dick prepare a 4-course ethnic dinner featuring German, Polish, Mediterranean, English and others. Also featured are Afternoon
Teas, group luncheons and dinners, wedding & baby showers, dress-up parties for young ladies of all ages and custom baking and catering. Open Wed-Friday for Lunch and afternoon tea and open for dinner Friday night.
MV Living Fan Special
Free dessert with entree this week only. (Dec 10-12, 2008)
Feather boas & fancy hats are optional!
Melinda's Garden Barn & Landscaping
8442 State Highway 28
(315) 858-0955
The Adirondack Spirit of Giving
Knitters from the Old Forge area, including members of the Pointed Pine Quilters, have knitted hundreds of hats and mittens to keep needy children in the Utica area warm this winter. Old Forge Hardware is the drop-off point and also donates yarn to knitters. Volunteers of the annual Clothe-a-Child project met at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and matched up hundreds of coats, hats and mittens, preparing them for distribution to needy children in the Utica area.
The Christ Child Society is a national organization that is devoted to caring for needy children. The organization was founded in 1887 and has over 31 chapters throughout the United States.
Neptune Studio was conceived as a vehicle to create and nurture a fertile environment for the growth of our area's local art community. The facility itself houses a combination of studio settings. This dynamic offers an open door to collaboration and social contact between artists while including private workspace so artists can concentrate on their work uninterrupted.
Holiday Art Sale
Open Sat-Tues 1-7pm
505 Roberts Street, Utica
(315) 732-2532
Or write:
Kellogg St. Productions
30 Kellogg Street
Clinton, NY 13323
or call 315-853-7133
