Sunny Saturday

It was below freezing - 31.8 degrees - at around 7:00. The WCS Varsity Football team lost to Frankfort-Schuyler 48 - 0, but they won't even begin to feel the sort of "cold shoulder" that the Yankees will get from New York!



It's going to be a nice, sunny day, here, so I dug out two really old photographs, taken on "scoots" up North fifteen or twenty years ago, and an even older poem, "When the Frost is on the Punkin'," by James Whitcomb Riley.




I've been told that late yesterday afternoon the North Country Landscaping crew was planting a row of shrubbery on the little rise just beyond CVS: you know the one? The shrubs are intended to reduce drifting -- we'll see! It's probably the same spot that Abner Livermore refers to in his 1851 "Reminiscences of Sangerfield."

"The greatest snow storm ever known in this country before or since commenced on the last day of March. it was very cold and the storm continued a week. A great body of snow fell and drifted badly. Nearly one hundred inhabitants of the Huddle turned out with teams and shovels to break the road to the Center. About half way there they met the Center people working their way through the snow drifts to get to the Huddle. Thus it required the energies of these two villages all day to break one mile of road, the most public road in town, too."

But now it's really sunny and warming up nicely: Have a Great Day!!