Saturday morning

60.3 degrees and, according to Mr. B., "just a tad drippy" outdoors.

It's getting better!
And we predict that tomorrow will be a significantly brighter day
for
Sandy Harding's significantly noteworthy
BIRTHDAY!

Rain in New York forced the delay of the baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Redsox, and the four-game series will now be played in two double-headers: one today, and one tomorrow.

WCS Boys' Varsity Soccer at Morrisville-Eaton today at 11:00 A.M. and Varsity Football at 1:00.


The Boil Water Advisory for residents of Clinton was lifted late yesterday morning. You can get your caramel latté today, Holly!

There have been sightings of a mature Bald Eagle in the Pleasant Valley area, southwest of the village. Screech Owls have - according to the increase in their nightime calls - become more numerous down in Whiskey Hollow and, last night, a Barred Owl was heard.



A reader asked, in re: a picture of ivy on "Putnam Hall" in yesterday's posting, "Where was/is "Putnam Hall?"

This is it! The "old mill," built in 1867 by George Putnam in readiness for the arrival of the Railroad. When the building was new it had storage and freight offices on the first and second floors but the third floor was one huge room that was used for banquets, theatrical productions, speeches and community gatherings. That was during Waterville's oppulant "golden years" when "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." (Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class -1899.)

When Putnam sold the building to Buell for a shoe manufactory, in 1879, the loss of the "Hall" to the commmunity was such that it resulted in the construction, the following year, of the Opera House.

For those of you who cannot get the tune out of your head, here are the words to the Loomis Family's Favorite Hymn as sung last week at the Waterville Historical Society:

"Shall we gather at the River?
The beautiful Sangerfield River;
Down in the Swamp by the River -
'Cause that's where we buried the GOLD!

YES! We'll gather at the River:
The beautiful Sangerfield River;
Down in the Swamp by the River -
'Cause that's where we buried the GOLD!"

(and don't forget the "A - men.")