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Episode #202 February 8, 2009
Exploring the arts, entertainment
and heritage of our region.
The
Scene
Weekly
with Mark Werchowski
Check out these links for local hobbies and clubs
Best of MV Living Vol. 2
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Deansboro Superette
Daily Lunch specials
841-4377
Wow, after visiting Canastota, you'll start to think everything started there. The Canal Town Museum is brimming with wonderful displays showcasing many of the great thing that originated in Canastota, from Weed chains that made the Great Road Race from New York to Paris possible to the Mutascope -the precursor to the Nickelodeon. We will most likely be back again next week with a stop off in Wampsville. We'll have to find out the origin of that name, too.
Thanks for traveling with us, Lance and Sharry
Joseph L. Popp, Jr. Butterfly Conservatory
Longeretta Law Firm
298 Genesee St., Utica
735-6162
Road Trip to Kniste-Stota (Canastota)
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.
Or write:
Kellogg St. Productions
30 Kellogg Street
Clinton, NY 13323
or call 315-853-7133
Richard has always served Dino's meatballs with his homemade spaghetti sauce. Tony Ferrucci and his partners started the business in the late 1960s and it has flourished into a successful business supplying, Price Chopper, Hannaford, and Chanatry's with sausage and meatballs.
Be sure to Call ahead during severe weather
Dino's Sausage & Meat Co
722 Catherine St, Utica
(315) 732-2661
Love Songs
Saturday, Feb 14th at 7:30pm
The songs of Robert and Clara
Shumann & Johannes Brahms
Kirkland Art Center
Clinton
NY
The museum is located in one of Canastota's oldest buildings. It overlooks the remnants of the original Erie Canal.
Featured Artist, Jim Parker
At Clapsaddle Farms in Ilion, Jim Parker paints historical paintings depicting the early communities of the Mohawk Valley. Jim will present "Little People of the Adirondacks" as part of Utica Monday night on June 30 at 7:30pm at the Oneida County Historical Society at 1608 Genesee St. Utica
Walk among hundreds of free-flying butterflies, over thirty species of tropical birds and free ranging tortoises, lizards, frogs and insects in the 3,00 square foot indoor herbarium at the Joseph L. Popp Butterfly Conservatory.
The Canastota Public Library on W. Center Street is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1902, the Carnegie Fund offered $10,000 for the construction of a new facility. The Syracuse architect Archimides Russell was commissioned to design the facility, and construction was completed by William Funda and Delmonico Brothers of Syracuse. Nearly 300 people attended the opening ceremony of the new library in 1903. The library is still a center of activity. Click here to see the many activities scheduled.
The Canastota Public Library
Canastota Canal Town Museum
Once a bakery and residence of the 19th century, the Canastota Canal Town Museum offers a history of the "Old Erie Canal" and brings to life local folklore and history. Located beside a remnant of the original Canal, the Museum is filled with authentic memorabilia, art, and other exhibits explaining Canastota's contributions to the Canal, business, industry and agriculture.
The grand Canastota Library is on the National Register of Historic Places
International Boxing Hall of Fame
In 1982, residents of Canastota decided to
honor former welterweight and middleweight
champion of the late-1950s, Carmen Basilio,
and his nephew, Billy Backus, who won the
world welterweight title in 1970. The towns-
people raised funds for a showcase that
would celebrate the achievements their two
local heroes. The success and enthusiasm for that project encouraged Canastotians to explore the possibility of establishing boxing's first hall of fame and museum. That project was completed in 1989, when two dozen former champions witnessed the ribbon cutting ceremony of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Canalside Talk
The History of the International Boxing
Hall of Fame in Canastota
with Executive Director Ed Brophy and Hall of Fame volunteer and historian Ross Stagnitti.
Monday Feb. 9th at 7:00 pm
Canal Town Education Center Canal Street, Canastota
Canastota's original name was Kniste-Stota the Oneida Indian words which means "cluster of pines" and "still"
Author Norman K. Dann presents:
"When We Get to Heaven: Runaway
Slaves on the Road to Peterboro"
Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7pm
Canastota Public Library
Click Here for list of the winners in our door prize drawing.
