We took a short drive to Rome, NY, to visit Griffiss Air Force Base Technology Park. Planes, especially military planes, just don’t float my boat. Real snoozers. But I have two sons who are crazy about machinery. Aren’t all boys? So this is for them.
Griffiss was an AFB for decades before the Clinton Administration downsized [...]
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It seems like yesterday, but it was in the spring of 2005 that we made our first trip out to Lake Ontario. We have since been a few times. This first trip, we strolled the shores of the lake, and visited the H. Lee White Maritime Museum in Oswego, NY.
According to the Maritime Museum [...]
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The U.S.S. Slater is one of the many places we visited during our weekend in Albany. The Slater rests in the illustrious Hudson River. It’s a beautiful river, so wide and flat. It is unlike other rivers I’ve seen closer to home. The Hudson is much more impressive and cosmopolitan than the meandering Mohawk River, [...]
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After our visit to the Oriskany Battlefield Memorial Site, we drove south on Route 69 to the Oriskany Museum. Unfortunately, the museum building was closed. We had been in there before, however, so we consoled ourselves investigating the park.
The park is beautiful. It has the anchor to the Mighty O– the U.S.S. Oriskany– the aircraft [...]
