HAPPENING TODAY
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8:30 - 1:30 at
WATERVILLE MUNICIPAL HALL
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(WCS Marching Band File Photo)
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Friday Night Sale Prep .....
Thanks to Terry Tanner for this great picture of three of the original members of the current Garden Club at the Plant Sale set-up last evening at the Methodist Church:
from left - Elaine Peterson, Wendy Sexton and Bonnie Dobmeier!
(Thanks loads, Terry!)
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SUNDAES on SUNDAY !
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A New Announcement from
The Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society (MVAS)
will sponsor a talk on Saturday, June 13th, at 8:00 p.m.
at the Waterville Public Library:
"Pluto: The Dawning of a New Horizon"
presented by Perry Pezzolanella
followed by Star Gazing at the Barton-Brown Observatory.
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Now on Roadside Display ....
........... they are Black Locust Trees.
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These two wildflowers, strewn in solid borders everywhere, may sound tasty, but consumption by humans is not recommended:
"Sweet Rocket" or "Dame's Rocket," a member of the Mustard family,
and Cow Parsley - may be poisonous to people!
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LOOKING BACK
Seventy-one years ago ....
June 6, 1944 "D-DAY"
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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Nine Years Ago - June 6, 2006
It was a bright sunny day and I stood talking with then-Mayor Nora Keating, bemoaning not only the never-ending mess of mud and dust and the always-moving orange barrels that had come to control our lives during the two-year "Highway Reconstruction Project" and, also, the fact that one or two photos a week in The Waterville Times wasn't doing the make-over mayhem the justice it deserved from an historical standpoint.
Out of the blue, Nora said to me, "You ought to do a blog!"
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Thanks to Google and Blogspot, creating "At Home in the Huddle" took no more than ten minutes!
The Highway Reconstruction Project ended on schedule in 2007; the Memorial Bandstand was finished in 2010,
and still ....
With increased use of the internet and Facebook plus a Calendar carried in The Waterville Times and the recent installation of the new Electronic Sign in the Park, Villagers have no reason to not know what's going on when! Announcements on the blog really aren't necessary, from that viewpoint, but the posts serve another purpose: because they are all archived (and one presumes that they will stay that way forever!) they continue to record the history of the Waterville community and its residents in an always-accessible manner never before possible.
And that is why ......
Nora was right!
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Vacation starts now -
but I SHALL be on hand for the first session of
"Once Upon a Time in Waterville"
starting on Friday the 12th at the Waterville Public Library.
