Last weekend we got to watch the Memorial Day parade in South Portland Maine. Every town and village I'd guess ran a parade at about the same time and an air force refueling tanker flew overhead giving them each an overpass. When I bought waving flags, a lady told me to have a happy holiday but it …

The view from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum's look off at Hogback Mountain on route 9. We left the sea, crossed southern Maine, made it up through the White and Green Mountains, ferried across Lake Champlain then followed the upper half of the St. Lawrence Valley home to Easlakia. 12 …

Now that I know I am a hour or so away from the best ribs I have ever had, I am ever so much more sensitive to issues relating to crossing the border. Sad the news, then, comes that Canada and the US have arrived at an impasse as it relates to the rights of humans at the gates. There is the …

Interesting doings across the river in Watertown according to WWNY, though their choice of illustrating the story with a photo of half a Bulgarian nuclear reactor from 1968 is some what curious:  •  “The Town of Watertown's first two domes aren't even off the drawing board yet, and already there …

Steve French  •  Regular readers will know that I take great joy in being able to pop over the border that is 35 minutes from my front door and nose around northern New York state. Today, we primarily went to go to the Thompson Park Zoo at Watertown, sitting on a hill behind the town and it was a …

Is this the first Easter weekend in years that I have not headed to Portland Maine, home of the greatest gang of hosts and the Chocolate Boston? There has been a primordial urge to see the sea in America that has had to be acted upon. This year, however, the call is that of the shingling roofer to …

An interesting week for we and Canada Post. One day a package that hardly registered for weight within province was taken for posting and the clerk said "eight bucks." "Eight bucks! Forget it. Give it to her next time we visit." On another day, two packages with identical size and identical …

A few months to go yet.  •  A nice bomb down to the great state of Ithaca where we had diner at Moosewood with Gary and Maude as the greatest Charlie Brown snow in history fell outside. I wanted to sing "Hark the Herald" to loo-lo-loo-lo-looooo as roundheaded cartoon kids skated. We split a jug of …