Wed. A. M.

It's one of those "Monday Holiday" weeks that throws everything off: today is "Big Trash" Day, and the Village Board Meeting (which would have taken place on Monday night) will take place at 7:00 this evening at the Municipal Hall.

Tomorrow, of course, is The Big Day! The First Day of School and the Yellow Buses will roll!

We got back from a long weekend away around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Driving North from Sangerfield, we slowed down to admire a curved driveway entrance in the new retaining wall.....



.....and then were brought to a complete standstill by paving operations! (Yea!)



It's the Final Surface Layer of Blacktop! Work began at around 6:00 yesterday morning, we're told, and it looks as if both North and Southbound lanes have been paved although parking lanes in the Business District have not, nor have the "milled" sections of adjoining streets/avenues.



The Weather Channel Forecast calls for some rain, today, but if it's not too much, TIOGA should be able to accomplish a great deal more work or - at the very least - subject matter for new photographs!




We had been in Danvers, Massachusetts, at an annual gathering of the Griffin Clan - the children, grandchildren, spouses, etc., etc. of four Griffin siblings, of which Dick's mother was one, who now number several score and have a grand time whenever they get together! One of the Griffin ancestral trees is the family "Towne" - noteworthy because two daughters of that family, Mary Towne Esty and Rebecca Towne Nurse, were hung as witches in Salem in 1692!



We always visit the Rebecca Nurse House - a beautifully preserved historic site - and check on the Hop Yard, there!



Sunday was a gray and gloomy day, in Salem and Danvers, made worse by the painful way in which the Agassi Era ended and the sorry state that the Boston RedSox were in.

Monday was better, 'tho --- the sun shone and the RedSox won! We went to nearby Gloucester to admire a number of three- and four-masted schooners called "Tall Ships," and then on to little old Rockport, home of "Motif #1," where streets are narrow and tiny old buildings are nearly covered with flowers and all are crowded with tourists.

























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