Hello from Upstate NY
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driftpin
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Welcome, lots to see here. A good place to get info on something you're having issues with.
'Upstate NYS' is usually anything past Westchester County. I lived in Rochester when it was going great-guns, in the 1960's with Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and GM-Rochester Products, among others. I still go back every few years, no relatives anymore there, but I like Letchworth State Park, we frequently went there when I was a kid. I enjoy the Finger Lakes, and have also been camping in the Adirondacks, and visiting friends along the Hudson River Valley, in the Catskills.
Post up some pictures of whatever it is you enjoy doing in your home, or for recreation, we always like pictures. Where is 'upstate' for you?
'Upstate NYS' is usually anything past Westchester County. I lived in Rochester when it was going great-guns, in the 1960's with Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and GM-Rochester Products, among others. I still go back every few years, no relatives anymore there, but I like Letchworth State Park, we frequently went there when I was a kid. I enjoy the Finger Lakes, and have also been camping in the Adirondacks, and visiting friends along the Hudson River Valley, in the Catskills.
Post up some pictures of whatever it is you enjoy doing in your home, or for recreation, we always like pictures. Where is 'upstate' for you?
Syracuse, I guess that’s Central NY. My oldest son goes to college near Letchworth - cool place. We spend time in the Adirondacks when we can - mostly hiking but sometimes on the water. Mainly just like being outdoors, even in the winter. Try to make the most of the snow. Here’s a picture from a hike last Columbus Day, hoping to get out again this Columbus Day - best hiking day of the year usually.
I like to do projects around the house and on the cars but am still learning the best ways to do things. A little bit of a perfectionist and an engineering by background so sometimes I get paralysis and overanalyze projects/repairs.
Doesn’t like my IOS pictures… will figure out how to add some
Miss the Pontiacs
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Welcome to GJ from Canada.
My Wife’s Dad going back a couple generations farmed in the Syracuse area. Actually the Battle of Freeman’s Farm was on their property. We made the trip probably 40 years back with her Sister and Husband, we spent some time at the heritage site/park. My Wife’s Father being a Freeman had family on both sides of the skirmish. My Wife and her Sister found that they were now part of The Daughters of the Revolution, which they thought was pretty cool.
My Wife’s Dad going back a couple generations farmed in the Syracuse area. Actually the Battle of Freeman’s Farm was on their property. We made the trip probably 40 years back with her Sister and Husband, we spent some time at the heritage site/park. My Wife’s Father being a Freeman had family on both sides of the skirmish. My Wife and her Sister found that they were now part of The Daughters of the Revolution, which they thought was pretty cool.
micromind
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Welcome from Western Nevada.
Never been to New York so I don't know the local geography........
Never been to New York so I don't know the local geography........
billconner
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I'm from way upstate NY - The North Country - 1 1/2 hours north of you. Grew up just south of Syracuse and always thought it was mid state but I now accept north of Westchester County is upstate.
NYS parks, forests, and WMAs along with the Adirondack Park are really terrific. I hike and backpack a little bit mostly canoe, and haven't begun to see but a little bit.
Anyway, welcome to the Empire State and if you ever want company on an outdoor adventure nearer me, message.
NYS parks, forests, and WMAs along with the Adirondack Park are really terrific. I hike and backpack a little bit mostly canoe, and haven't begun to see but a little bit.
Anyway, welcome to the Empire State and if you ever want company on an outdoor adventure nearer me, message.
nadogail
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Welcome to the Forum from Southwestern California. My Great Grandfather and Grandmother were from Clyde New York. He was in the New York Artillery. While a sentry at Gettysburg he exchanged salutes with President Lincoln. He lived until the late 1930’s; he was the oldest Civil War Veteran in Columbia County, Oregon.
I don’t personally recall meeting him.
My father was married to his Daughter in 1937 and he once told me he was in a Beard Growing contest and shaved his beard for his Father In Laws funeral, he still came in Second Place.
I don’t personally recall meeting him.
My father was married to his Daughter in 1937 and he once told me he was in a Beard Growing contest and shaved his beard for his Father In Laws funeral, he still came in Second Place.
Greetings from the Great White North! I spent from '55 to '62 as a primary school student on an Army base out on Lake Ontario. Most of our TV came from Rochester and Syracuse and we knew the world through upstate eyes. Closest I have been since is spending several months working in Athens so got to run upstate and look around a bit on days off.
driftpin
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Being Canadian, I suspect you're familiar with the Canadian plane, the Avro Arrow. The plane was supposed to be a big deal in the time it was designed. They used to fire it off as a scale model during the design phase, over and into Lake Ontario.
People have done research about where the models were suspected to have landed in the lake, and they have found some of them on the bottom, and have brought them to the surface. The story about the hunt/retrieval is an interesting one.
It looks like the B-58 Hustler delta-wing.
Syracuse U. where Jim Brown went to school, possibly one of the best athletes in US amateur sports, national champion in Lacrosse. Of course, he also played Football for the Orangemen, and Track and Baseball.
Jim Brown
Syracuse University basketball profile for the legendary football player Jim Brown, forward for the Orangemen. Hall of Fame NFL and college football player, Hall of Fame Lacrosse player, and one of the all time greatest running backs.
www.orangehoops.org
People in other parts of the country, never having been there, think that NY the state is like NYC, but they have a large portion of the area as state or federal parkland.
As a pre-teen, I was in CFB Picton ON where the entire RCAF DHC1 (chipmunks) and a variety of WWII surplus aircraft in boxes filled several hangars on a former BCATP field. My paper route included the base and airport where my Father was becoming lead instructor in the transition from light anti-aircraft (radar guided) into battlefield nukes - all of which were to come from US so he was back and fourth between both countries, just as he had been before the war when the "border" between the Niagara peninsula and Buffalo was just a walk to your job on either side across an open bridge. To us, the two countries had no real border in any political, business or cultural sense. And, being an army brat on that base I was almost as air savvy as ground. Used to watch a handful of guys building up 4 x P51s from parts stored behind local construction guy's D18S.
Later in life, I was to become close friends with an engineer who's first job was in vibration/resonance analysis of the empenage and fuselage around the nozzles of the CF-105 Arrow. This was a government slushfund of work given to Avro Canada to design and develop a Mach 2 bomber interceptor from scratch. The programme was ostensibly cancelled when the politicians believed the ACAC guys (i.e. my Dad) could shoot them down with Nike Bomarcs (thus his training at that stage) but few people seeking the glory of an easy story about the CF-105 seem to ignore the painfully obvious contract at Canadair to manufacture the fully developed and proven Lockheed 104 as the Canadair CF-105. The genuinely brilliant team of engineers who designed the Arrow were all dispersed and most moved into awaiting positions in the US in aircraft and NASA projects where they made a serious contribution. Many years later I was to be in business with the guy who was the RCAF acceptance test pilot for the 104 that replaced the 105 literally overnight.
Here we are 60 years later and you know the old saw about history repeating itself: the US Army just wiped out 6,000 helicopter jobs as the damage to aircraft (and tanks) from UAVs makes manned weapons obsolete due to cost and risk of loss of personnel. We've "been there, done that".
Greenebre: Didn't mean to hijack your thread, but that's kind of the way things roll around here.
Will do, that would be cool. Only get out for serious hikes a couple times a year as the kids keep us busy but still make a point of it when we can
No worries - love it! It’s all about connections and good stories