Toothpick City at MOST in Syracuse, NY

The kids and I made the trip out to Syracuse, and stopped in at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST). We encountered a surprise treat at the museum: Stan Munro’s Toothpick City II. Wow! We walked in to the main arena to see a vast display of the most incredible works [...]

The Erie Canal Blacksmith

I finally got this video uploaded to YouTube. Took me all day! It’s the Blacksmith demonstration we saw while at Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY. I love watching these things. This guy is relatively new, but I think he did a great job. And those double-bellows are amazingly large.

A Gift From Scotland

My husband came home yesterday, waving a package at us. I’ve been receiving quite the number of packages recently, including pinhole glasses . The kids and I jumped outside to him, to see the words “Royal Mail” printed on the envelope. My gift from Scotland has arrived! A few months ago, my dear friend Alison [...]

The Telectroscope from NY to London

It’s the stuff movies are made of: a young man stumbles upon his great-grandfather’s old papers and discovers a plan for the wildest and most ingenious invention of Victorian-era engineering. It’s the Telectroscope, and it’s a “tunnel” that runs from London, England to New York City, New York. But is it for real? Could a [...]

Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY

The kids just love everything Western. And this museum has everything! Western art (spectacular displays!), dress-ups, artifacts, and more! We especially liked seeing the actual Indian buckskin suit and the enormous bison head on a plaque. Wow!

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