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New York Isn't the snow great? I love snow! This is a farm where maples are tapped for their sap to make maple syrup. It may be spring, but winter still has a grip on New York. |
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| It's maple season here in Western New York. When the days get warm, but nights are still very cold, the sap begins to run and it's time for the harvest. New York State is the 4th leading producer of maple syrup in the world. Throughout the state, maple farms celebrate Maple Weekend. Maple Grove Farm is a 5th generation maple farm. Behind me is a sugar house. |
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| Maple farms usually don't use buckets to collect sap anymore. Instead, thin blue hoses wind through the trees and take the sap directly back to the sugar house. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon of maple syrup! |
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| I'm in front of the great suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony house. What's amazing to me is that the tree behind me (and the sidewalk, too!) were here when Miss Anthony lived here. Her family bought this house in the 1860s and her sister lived right next door. Although Miss Anthony traveled widely, this house remained her home base. It was in the front room of this house that she was arrested for voting in 1872. She died here on March 13, 1906. |
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| Near the Susan B. Anthony house, I found a little park that contained this sculpture. It is of Susan B. Anthony and her friend Frederick Douglass having tea. |
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| I paid my respects and thanked Susan B. Anthony at her gravesite. In her last public speech, she said, "Failure is impossible." Fourteen years after her death the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified and women finally had the right to vote. |
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| This building was constructed in the early 1900s and served as the town's only commercial establishment, a general store, soda fountain, and gas station. After WWII, it became a dry cleaners, barber shop, and bookstore. In 1970, it became the Victorian Doll Museum. Over 3000 dolls are here, dating from the 1800s to today. One of the most interesting was the soap doll from the 1870s; she really is made from soap! I just loved the wedding display - it showed a mouse wedding. The museum also serves as a doll hospital. |
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We celebrated Easter early as my hostess had to work on the holiday
itself. Look at all the goodies in this Easter basket! My
hostess is of Polish descent and follows many of the traditions and customs of that culture (see the culinary page). The traditional items in this basket have symbolic meanings. Baskets are taken to church and are blessed by the priest. |
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