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.
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I can’t believe that I took over 100 photos of our day spent at the Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY! We were there for most of the day, on July 4th, and had an absolute blast.
You can see all the photos I took here at my Flickr site. I’ll showcase only the basic photos [...]
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July is perhaps the busiest month for Upstate New York tourist industry. So I do love July.
Our favorite historic site, Fort Stanwix in Rome, released their July schedule. It is so chock-full of juicy events that I thought you would appreciate knowing it, too.
July 7: There’s an evening hours Open House at the fort, [...]
Re-enactments in Upstate New York are starting to gear up! We are looking forward to seeing some great battles and festivals. The kids absolutely LOVE to dress up, and always appreciate a good show. Besides the annual Fort Stanwix re-enactment and the one at Fort Ticonderoga that we hope to see, there’s the Civil War [...]
In late autumn, 2006, we took a trip to the Living History Weekend in German Flatts, NY. German Flatts is one of the oldest Upstate New York settlements. Unfortunately, and predictably, it was pouring rain AGAIN (we had a lot of rain that year, and a few devastating floods). This put a real damper on [...]
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Oriskany, NY, has the sad distinction of the location of the bloodiest battle of the American Revolution.
The Oriskany Battlefield State Historic Site is located on Route 69, north of the small village of Oriskany, NY. The site used to hold reenactments of the battle, although in the past we have always missed them, and I [...]
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Another kooky “do-gooder” in New York City wants to heavily regulate antique firearms. This could kill the museum and re-enactment business in Upstate New York.
A New York City lawmaker’s plan to regulate antique firearms like other weapons could have severe economic repercussions for museums and historical societies around the state and prevent hundreds of [...]
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July 24, 2006
Well, we have been to Fort Stanwix about four times total. We love it. Admission is free, and it is a terrific place to learn about Revolutionary history. Last time we visited, in August 2005, they had just completed the Marinus Willett Center, which is a combination museum and audio-visual complex. We watched [...]
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