#Steuben County

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What West Edmeston, New York's Lauren S. Brooks did in Corning between 2012 and 2016

What West Edmeston, New York’s Lauren S. Brooks did in Corning between 2012 and 2016

Lauren S. Brooks, 51, of West Edmeston, New York, United States has been arrested, the New York State Police in Painted Post, Steuben County, New York announced on December 23, 2022. He is a former resident of Corning, Steuben County.

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Water damage in Chemung County is an unforeseen event that can create havoc in both your residential and commercial spaces,

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Peanut was an eastern gray squirrel found and rescued in 2017 by Mark Longo after the squirrel's mother was killed by a car in New York City. Longo sought a shelter for Peanut but was unsuccessful, and he bottle-fed the squirrel for the next eight months before deciding that Peanut should be returned to the wild. Longo released the animal into his backyard, but about a day later, he found Peanut on his porch with half of its tail missing. Longo said he "opened the door, [Peanut] ran inside, and that was the last of Peanut's wildlife career." It is illegal to keep squirrels as pets in the state of New York, and in the seven years spent in Longo's care in his hometown of Norwalk, Connecticut, no license was obtained to legally keep Peanut. Longo has stated that he was in the process of filing paperwork to have Peanut certified as an educational animal at the time of the seizure, however, he has not explained why he did not pursue a license in the preceding seven years.

While in his care, Longo created an Instagram account sharing videos of Peanut, and by October 2024 the account had amassed 534,000 followers. Peanut's social media following also helped steer viewers to Longo's OnlyFans account, where he called himself "Peanut's dad" and produced pornography, drawing in $800,000 over one month. In April 2023, Longo and his wife moved from Norwalk to upstate New York to found the P'Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary. They contributed to half of the sanctuary's expenses, most of which was raised through Peanut's social media presence. According to them, the sanctuary had rescued over 300 animals by November 2024, however, Longo was not licensed as a wildlife rehabilitator.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) began investigating Mark Longo in January 2024 after complaints were received alleging that Longo was keeping wildlife illegally. In an interview with the New York Post, Longo speculated that the anonymous complaints were motivated by jealousy due to the success of his OnlyFans account.

On October 30, 2024, the NYSDEC took Peanut, along with a pet raccoon named Fred, from Longo's home in Pine City, New York. Two days later, government officials alleged that after his seizure, Peanut had bitten one of the personnel involved, and the pets were euthanized to test for rabies, as there are no ante-mortem rabies testing methods for animals approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Longo stated that the decision to euthanize the squirrel "won't go unheard". The incident has been widely criticized as an example of excessive government intrusion into personal lives and pet ownership rights. Longo claimed that the NYSDEC used excessive force during the raid, which, according to Longo, lasted five hours.

Peanut's death triggered widespread public backlash, social media outcry, condemnation from several lawmakers, and a proposed bill aimed at preventing similar incidents in the future.

The death of Peanut was used as a cause célèbre by the MAGA movement, who blamed it on Democrats. Several prominent Republican figures complained about the killing of the squirrel, with some Trump campaign supporters claiming that the Biden-Harris administration was too firm regarding licenses for owning wild animals like squirrels as pets. Both New York governor Kathy Hochul and Vice President Kamala Harris turned down a request to comment on the incident. The Republican vice presidential candidate of the 2024 U.S. election, JD Vance, posted on X that "Don is fired up about P'Nut the squirrel"; the official Trump campaign TikTok account also condemned Peanut's death. Nick Langworthy stated his irritation with the NYS DEC, saying that "instead of focusing on critical needs like flood mitigation in places like Steuben County, where local officials have to struggle just to get permits from the DEC to clear debris-filled waterways, they're out seizing pet squirrels." Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo of the Democratic Party also criticized the DEC, as did actor William Shatner. On X (Twitter), Elon Musk commented that "Government overreach kidnapped an orphan squirrel and executed him."

Jake Blumencranz, a NYS Assemblyman from Long Island's 15th Assembly District, has proposed a bill called "Peanut's Law: Humane Animal Protection Act", an amendment to the New York State Environmental Conservation Law limiting government animal seizures

Really an incredible tale

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More on the story of Washington Orr. The full screenshot was unwieldy, but here is the text

A LOCAL HORROR?

Fourteen years ago one Washington Orr owned and occupied a well located farm in Steuben township, this county about one mile south-east of the poor farm. He had a wife and three daughters, and was comfortably fixed on land which brought a fair return for the labor expended Some time in the latter part of the winter of 1867-68 he came over to this city on business --to collect money; it was thought. Three days afterwards he was reported missing. and the woods were searched and the streams dragged in the hope of finding his body. He was never found. Six years ago the house occupied by his widow and children was burned to the ground, and the citizens turned out and assisted the family to build a new one. After it was completed a man was hired to clean the cellar of the debris of the fire, but there was one part which he was forbidden to disturb on account of the fact, as the family said, of that part of the debris being liable to contain articles of value which had fallen through the floor at the time of the fire. With memory freshened by this frivolous embargo, the man cultivated suspicions of something wrong and told the neighbors that he believed that Wash. Orr's body was buried in the cellar of his old home. Then people -near neighbors-began to remember that Orr had last been seen near his home-that his domestic relations were not agreeable, and that his father-in-law, a Mr. McWilliams, frequently quarreled with him. and was withal a very passionate man. But nothing further came of the gossip. Mrs Orr and her family had deported them selves in a manner well calculated to disarm suspicion, and had earned the respect and confidence of the neighborhood. Two weeks ago a piece of sunken ground in the woods gave rise to the supposition that an interment of some kind had once been made there. But only the rotted remains of some animal were unearthed. It was this however, that started anew the old gossip,--the old suspicions, and led the man who had cleaned out the cellar six years ago to request of the present proprietor of the farm the privilege of digging, to verify his convictions or gratify his curiosity. It so happened that at that point in the cellar which he had been forbidden to clean up, there was an indentation of a few inches deep, describing a length of a trifle over six feet and a width of perhaps two feet. Suspicion now took such tangible form that Mr Hunt, the owner of the place, was fairly consumed with it, and himself superintended the investigation. The spot indented in such suggestive shape, was covered with cement from one to two inches thick, and the diggers say lacked from three to four inches at the edge of the indentation of touching the earth below. They dug down, as they say, in soil which was quite loose and which readily separated from sides and ends cut pretty straight, in the solid earth. Every spade full of earth thrown up as the sides cleared themselves so freshened the convictions of the family that the entire neighborhood took on the spirit of investigation.and a number of them volunteered or were impressed into digging out the mystery surrounding the death of Wash Orr.

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Serving his country, his community, and his fellow veterans

By Jonathan Monfiletto

His great-grandfather escaped from slavery in Virginia and worked for the Union Army during the Civil War. His grandfather made a family home on Cherry Street in Penn Yan and owned a blacksmith shop on Maiden Lane in the village. His father served during World War I as apparently the only Black soldier from Yates County in the conflict. And Stanley Clark followed in their footsteps and made his own history in a career of service to the military and the community.

Stanley Clark was born January 21, 1935 in Penn Yan to Franklin and Lena Clark, who at the time lived on North Avenue in Penn Yan. Franklin, in turn, had been born in August 1894 in Ingleside, near Prattsburgh in Steuben County, to William and Sarah Clark and – at least by the time of his entrance into the military – raised in their Cherry Street home. Franklin served as a farrier sergeant – he took care of the horses, forging and fitting their shoes, among other tasks – with Battery D of the 349th Field Artillery, 92nd Division. Department from Camp Dix, New Jersey, Franklin served from his drafting in November 1917 until his discharge at Camp Upton, New York in March 1919.

Stanley Clark died at age 85 on December 21, 2020 – exactly one month before his 86th birthday – having served his country and his comrades in the U.S. Army for a full 20 years, as director of the Yates County Veterans’ Service Agency, and with the American Legion at the post, county, district, state, and national levels. Though he is recent in history, as I like to say of those who existed during living memory – I’m sure there is someone reading this article who knew Stanley – I wanted to write about him because I have written about the three generations in his family who came before him.

These generations include Nathaniel Clark – Stanley’s great-grandfather – and Franklin, whose military service I wrote about in honor of Black History Month on February 9, 2022, just the second article on the Oliver’s Travels blog. At the time, I hadn’t firmly connected the two men as relatives, but on November 23, 2022, I wrote about the two men and connected them through William, Nathaniel’s oldest child and Franklin’s father. Since that time, I have been researching Stanley – the fourth generation of the family to live in Penn Yan – and wanting to write about him to close the loop, so to speak.

A quick word about Nathaniel before I continue on with Stanley’s story: Born into slavery in October 1842 on a plantation near Port Royal, Virginia, he worked as a porter at a hotel in Bowling Green when troops under command of Union General Ambrose Burnside took him and other enslaved people and assigned them to different duties. Nathaniel worked for Col. William Clark (it is unclear if this is a coincidence or if Nathaniel eventually adopted Clark’s surname) as a cook and caretaker with the 9th Army Corps, 3rd Division, 2nd Brigade.

Three years later, during a battle at Suffolk, Virginia, Clark was taken prisoner by the Confederate Army and made a cook on a Confederate vessel. After six weeks on the ship, Clark and Uncle Joe, a fellow enslaved man, deserted the army, signaled a Union picket boat, and then helped sink the Confederate ship and free the Union prisoners.

Stanley followed his father and great-grandfather into military service while still a student at Geneva High School, enlisting in the U.S. Army at age 17 in 1952 and receiving his high school diploma while on active duty. He retired with the rank of sergeant first class 20 years later in 1972. In between, he served with the 2nd Infantry Division during the Korean War from 1952 to 1953. He later served two deployments during the Vietnam War, first from 1965 to 1967 with the 1st Infantry Division and then from 1969 to 1971 with the 197th Transportation Battalion. During his second tour, Stanley was the captain of a tugboat on the Mekong River. For his career of service, he received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Korean and Vietnam Service Medals.

Two years after retiring from the Army, Stanley embarked on another 20-year career of serving his fellow veterans. In 1974, the Yates County Legislature appointed him as the county’s director of veterans affairs. At the time, Stanley was 39 years old and living on Main Street in Dundee. Upon his retirement in 1994, Stanley was the honoree of a testimonial dinner held at Johnson Costello American Legion Post 355 in Penn Yan. The 50 guests in attendance included the sitting State Assemblyman and a representative of the sitting State Senator, both of whom presented Stanley with citations; Yates County legislators, officials, and co-workers; members of the American Legion, VFW, and 40/8 as well as their ladies auxiliaries; and Stanley’s son James.

The following year, Stanley was named Humanitarian of the Year 1994-95 by the Seventh District of the American Legion. The Johnson Costello post had nominated him for that honor as well as for Legionnaire of the Year; the Yates County American Legion had awarded both of these honors to him and forwarded his nominations to the district level. He had joined the Johnson Costello post in 1972, after his own military career, and worked his way up to Post Commander for the year 1977-78. He served as Yates County Commander in 1985, District Commander Aide in 1986, and New York Department Sergeant-At-Arms in 1987.

“Stories of his assistance to veterans, their spouses, and family are endless and cover any hour of the day. He is just a very nice person, and I like him,” said Joan Byrnside, of the Dundee American Legion Auxiliary. These stories – largely during his tenure as veterans services director – range from transporting veterans to the hospital in his own vehicle after hours to assisting and comforting a dying veteran’s wife to serving as fiduciary for 15 veterans who were unable to handle their own affairs.

A decade later, for the term running from July 2005 to July 2006, Clark was elected American Legion State Commander, the first resident of Yates County to hold this position. Part of his duties included visiting every American Legion post home in the state, and as a result he logged 31,600 miles on his Legion-provided car. He visited Yates County posts in Penn Yan and Dundee in March 2006 for a homecoming celebration of sorts before he concluded his tenure a few months later.

In 2011, the Department of New York State elected Stanley as its Alternate National Executive Committeeman, one of two representatives of the state on the American Legion’s National Executive Committee, the organization’s policy-making board. With a two-year term as the alternate, Stanley once again became the first resident of Yates County to have this role and was in line to serve another two years as National Executive Committeeman.

Stanley’s son Stan also served in the Army and is currently the commander of the Yates County American Legion. From a patriarch who achieved his freedom from slavery, the five generations of the Clark family in Yates County have each made their own contributions to their country and their community.

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On the morning of 2 August, 1993, 13-year-old Eric Smith was cycling his bike to summer camp in Steuben County, New York. On his way, he encountered four-year-old Derrick Robie, who was walking to the same summer camp. Smith pulled up alongside him and struck up a conversation with the younger boy.

Smith then lured Derrick to a nearby wooded area where he proceeded to strangle him, strike him with a rock. He then sexually assaulted Derrick with a stick, and poured Kool-Aid in his wounds. Several hours later, Derrick’s body was found when his mother went to collect him at the summer camp only to find that he had never arrived.

Later that night, Smith confessed what he had done to his mother who immediately called police. Smith was ordered to stand trial for the murder and there was an extensive media flurry due to his young age. His defence team argued that he had been a loner who was heavily bullied in school due to his red hair, freckles, and glasses. They called on a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with intermittent explosive disorder. His testimony was countered by a prosecution expert who argued that this disorder was very rarely seen in children. 

Eric Smith was ultimately convicted of second-degree murder and was ordered to serve a minimum of nine years in prison. While incarcerated, Smith wrote an apology to the Robie family, which read: 

“I know my actions have caused a terrible loss in the Robie family, and for that, I am truly sorry. I’ve tried to think as much as possible about what Derrick will never experience: his 16th birthday, Christmas, anytime, owning his own house, graduating, going to college, getting married, his first child. If I could go back in time, I would switch places with Derrick and endure all the pain I’ve caused him. If it meant that he would go on living, I’d switch places, but I can’t.” 

Over the years, Smith applied for parole but was always denied. However, after serving 27 years behind bars, he was paroled in 2022.

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SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. — Alyssa Jane Venable disappeared after deputies say her three roommates were found dead in Spotsylvania County Tuesday. Three days later, she was officially arrested hundreds of miles away. 

The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office says Venable was taken into custody with the help of United States Marshals Service and the New York State Police

Deputies found the 23-year-old's three roommates dead while conducting a welfare check in Fredericksburg after a friend raised concerns about Venable's behavior. The three bodies of her roommates were found around 10 p.m. It is unclear how Robert McGuire, 77, Gregory Powell, 60, and Carol Reese, 65, died but police did confirm they were all found with upper body trauma. 

While the bodies of her roommates were found inside the home, Venable was nowhere to be found. As a suspect in her roommates' deaths, deputies began searching for Venable. Less than three days later, she was found in another state.

Venable was arrested Thursday near Steuben County, New York, which is just more than 360 miles away from Spotsylvania County. She was taken into custody after a chase on Interstate 86 in Steuben County. 

Officials say New York State troopers spotted the gray 2009 Honda Civic Venable was known to drive at 5:45 p.m. Thursday. They attempted to pull her over but she reportedly refused. The sheriff's office reports Venable at one point began driving at 100 miles per hour. 

Troopers used a tire deflation device to cause the Honda civic to stop and Venable was arrested without any further incident. She has since been taken to an area hospital as a precaution. No injuries were reported in the pursuit. 

WUSA9 spoke with Venable's grandmother hours before the arrest. She said while her granddaughter was never a said, she wasn't violent. She prayed authorities would find her granddaughter before she could hurt herself. 

"I pray that the authorities are looking for her as a person who is in harm's way as well because we think she's in harm's way if not from someone else but from her own self," Jane Venable, told WUSA9. "I'm pleading for the authorities to consider someone who is also is in desperate need for help."

The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office released a statement Thursday night, saying in part:

"On behalf of Sheriff Roger Harris, we would like to thank the U.S. Marshals Service for their unwavering support and the professionalism of the New York State Police."

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On to Round 2!

This is a wrap-up of the current standings. Polls for round 2 will be published starting this Saturday (12/16).

Congratulations to all the counties that progressed!

The state that is standing the strongest is New York, with 39 counties progressing to round 2! Albany, Allegany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Jefferson, Kings, Livingston, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Oneida, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Schuyler, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, and Wyoming.

Next most powerful state is Virginia, which has 36 winning counties. Alleghany, Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bedford, Brunswick, Caroline, Carroll, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Halifax, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lee, Louisa, Montgomery, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Pulaski, Rockingham, Scott, Smyth, Southampton, Tazewell, Warren, and Wise.

Ohio is also standing strong with 27 advancing counties. Brown, Butler, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Geauga, Holmes, Jackson, Lake, Lawrence, Licking, Madison, Mahoning, Medina, Mercer, Monroe, Muskingum, Perry, Pickaway, Ross, Scioto, Seneca, Trumbull, and Van Wert.

North Carolina is up next with a solid 24 wins. Beaufort, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Granville, Harnett, Henderson, Hoke, Jackson, Johnson, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Onslow, Person, Robeson, Tyrrell, and Wake.

Only 1 more state has over 20 counties that made won their match-ups and that's my wonderful Washington. Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Clallam, Cowlitz, Ferry, Garfield, Grant, Grays Harbor, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Pacific, Pend Oreille, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, Whitman, Yakima. Stay strong my soldiers.

A much higher number of states are comfortably in the middle of the pack. They are as follows:

Texas: 19 counties. Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Goliad, Hockley, Jones, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, McMullen, Milam, Ochiltree, Orange, Panola, Parker, San Patricio, and Travis.

California: 17 counties. Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Imperial, Lake, Mariposa, Monterey, Orange, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yolo.

Pennsylvania: 16 counties. Allegheny, Blair, Butler, Carbon, Dauphin, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Lancaster, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montgomery, Perry, Potter, Venango, and York.

Tennessee: 15 counties. Blount, Campbell, Carter, Cumberland, Hardin, Houston, Johnson, Knox, Madison, Maury, McNairy, Obion, Union, Williamson, and Wilson.

Nebraska: 13 counties. Adams, Buffalo, Cass, Cherry, Dakota, Keith, Knox, Nuckolls, Platte, Saunders, Stanton, Thayer, and Webster.

Nevada: 13 counties. Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine.

Illinois: 12 counties. Cook, DeKalb, Franklin, Jasper, Kane, Marion, McDonough, McHenry, Morgan, Peoria, St Clair, and Winnebago.

Maryland: 12 counties. Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Dorchester, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Washington, and Worcester.

Michigan: 12 counties. Barry, Berrien, Clinton, Genesee, Gogebic, Kalamazoo, Lake, Oceana, Ottawa, Rocommon, Sanilac, and Wexford.

Iowa: 11 counties. Dickinson, Fayette, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Humboldt, Jefferson, Jones, Polk, Pottawattamie, and Wright.

Louisiana: 11 parishes. Ascension, Bossier, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, Jefferson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, St Bernard, St James, and St Tammany.

New Jersey: 11 counties. Bergen, Cumberland, Essex, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.

Kentucky: 10 counties. Boone, Boyle, Breckinridge, Daviess, Leslie, Logan, Pike, Shelby, Trimble, Woodford.

Many of these poor cute states are barely hanging on. Please wish them luck.

Florida: 8 counties. Alachua, Bay, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okaloosa, Osceola, Palm Beach, and St Johns.

New Mexico: 8 counties. Colfax, Curry, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Mora, Otero, Roosevelt, and Socorro.

Georgia: 6 counties. Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Fulton, Pierce, and Rockdale.

Indiana: 6 counties. Benton, Elkhart, Jennings, Marion, Marshall, and Starke.

Minnesota: 6 counties. Aitkin, Clearwater, Hennepin, Hubbard, McLeod, and Pipestone.

Wisconsin: 6 counties. Calumet, Fond du Lac, Osaukee, Portage, Racine, and Sheboygan.

Wyoming: 6 counties. Big Horn, Converse, Lincoln, Natrona, Park, and Teton.

Missouri: 5 counties. Clay, Gentry, Greene, Newton, and St Louis.

South Carolina: 5 counties. Anderson, Calhoun, Dillon, Dorchester, and Lexington.

Utah: 5 counties. Beaver, Summit, Utah, Washington, and Wayne.

Alaska: 4 boroughs. Anchorage, Juneau, Matanuska-Susitna, and Wrangell.

Arkansas: 4 counties. Cross, Searcy, Washington, and White.

Colorado: 4 counties. Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, and La Plata.

Oklahoma: 4 counties. Bryan, Payne, Rogers, and Washington.

West Virginia: 4 counties. Fayette, Marion, Monongalia, and Roane.

Alabama: 3 counties. Bullock, Cleburne, and Mobile.

Arizona: 3 counties. Coconino, Maricopa, and Yavapai.

Maine: 3 counties. Androscoggin, Hancock, and Washington.

Idaho: 2 counties. Bannock and Bonner.

Kansas: 2 counties. Atchinson and Johnson.

Massachusetts: 2 counties. Barnstable and Berkshire.

Montana: 2 counties. Gallatin and Silver Bow.

North Dakota: 2 counties. Benson and LaMoure.

Some states only have 1 county that progressed. They are: Delaware (Kent County), Hawaii (Maui County), Mississippi (Adams County), New Hampshire (Hillsborough County), Oregon (Linn County), and South Dakota (Bennet County).

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In addition to all the winning counties above, there will be 83 new county flags folded into round 2!!! (Because of math reasoning this had to happen) Get hyped

They are as follows:

Alexander NC, Allen OH, Alpena MI, Alpena MI, Alpine CA, Arapahoe CO, Ashe NC, Avery NC, Baldwin AL, Baltimore MD, Bell KY, Benzie MI, Bernalillo NM, Black Hawk IA, Brevard FL, Camden NJ, Campbell WY, Canyon ID, Centre PA, Charles City VA, Cheatham TN, Chester PA, Clark WA, Clarke VA, Cleveland OK, Cochise AZ, Columbus NC, Coweta GA, Darke OH, Davidson NC, Elko NV, Erie PA, Florence SC, Garrett MD, Goshen WY, Greene VA, Grundy IL, Gwinnett GA, Hidalgo TX, Highland OH, Hocking OH, Holt NE, Hot Springs WY, Howard MD, Huntingdon PA, Ingham MI, Island WA, Kankakee IL, Lackawanna PA, Lawrence PA, Leelanau MI, Lehigh PA, Leon FL, Liberty TX, Lucas OH, Madera CA, Mahaska IA, Manitowoc WI, McLennan TX, Meigs OH, Milwaukee WI, Nashville and Davidson TN, Northumberland VA, Orleans NY, Page VA, Porter IN, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake UT, San Diego CA, Sangamon IL, Sevier TN, Shelby TN, Skamania WA, Spotsylvania VA, Stafford VA, Sussex VA, Terrell TX, Trinity CA, Tulsa OK, Tuscarawas OH, Ventura CA, Wahkiakum WA, Yuma AZ

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Friday, October 6, 2023

Today I finished a tiny exhibit about Glenn Curtiss for Steuben County History Week which takes place next week.

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Holidays 9.17

Holidays

Adoption Day (Ukraine)

Arbaeen of Hosseini (Iran) [40th Day after Ashura]

Australian Citizenship Day (Australia)

Battle Flag Day

BIPOC Vamp Day

Celebration of Virtue Day (French Republic)

Citizenship Day (f.k.a. "I Am An American" Day)

Constitution Day

Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala (Tonga)

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 7: Women

Empire Day (Emperor Norton)

Feast of the Pilgrims (Villers-Perwin, Belgium)

Fiestas Pátrias (Chile, Nicaragua)

Fundación de Melilla (Melilla, Spain)

Guess Who Day (Winnipeg, Canada)

International Country Music Day

International Familial Mediterranean Fever Day

International Guinep Day

International Irish Dance Day

International Microorganism Day

Kleefstra Syndrome Awareness Day

Linux Day

Love and Friendship Day (Colombia)

LP Record Unveiling Day

Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra, India)

Naked Bicycle Race Day

National Arielle K. Sterrett Day

National Bobby Day

National Female Civility Day

National Fox Day

National G Day

National Heroes’ Day (Angola)

National Hues Day (Chile)

National Pet Bird Day

National Pet Carbon Monoxide Safety Day

National Physician Suicide Awareness Day

National Professional House Cleaners Day

National Social Media Managers Day

National Table Shuffleboard Day

National Transportation Day (Indonesia)

National Unemployment Day (India)

National Unity Day (Belarus)

National Voter Registration Day

New Dog Tricks Day

917 Day (Philippines)

Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Day

Operation Market Garden Day (Netherlands)

Pledge Across America Day [Sep 17 or nearest Monday]

Pompéia (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Porsche 917 Day

Red Cross Day (Indonesia)

Rescuer’s Day (Ukraine)

Soviet Invasion of Poland Anniversary Day

Sybirak’s Day (Poland)

Teachers’ Day (Honduras)

Time’s Up Day

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day

Victory of Uproot Day (Burundi)

Vishwakarma Puja (Jharkhand & Uttarakhand, India)

Von Steuben Day

World Cycling Day

World Manta Day

World Patient Safety Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Dumpling Day

International Lambic Day

National Bakery Day

National Monte Cristo Day

Independence & Related Days

Commonwealth of Australia (Formally Proclaimed; 1900)

Constitution Day (US)

Constitution signed (United States; 1787)

Heist-op-den-Berg (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Melilla Day (Spain)

Scientopia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Siquijor Day (Philippines)

Trimountain (Town Name Changed to Boston; 1630)

Zamboanga del Sur Day (Philippines)

3rd Tuesday in September

Get Ready Day [3rd Tuesday]

National APRP Recognition Day [3rd Tuesday]

National IT Professionals Day [3rd Tuesday]

National Voter Registration Day [3rd Tuesday]

Prinsjesdag (Netherlands) [3rd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day [3rd Tuesday]

Tapas Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trusting Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

World Apheresis Awareness Day [3rd Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 17 (3rd Full Week of September)

Constitution Week (US; thru 9.23)

National Ballroom Dancing Week (thru 9.23)

National Family Week (thru 9.23)

World Body Painting Festival Week (thru 9.23)

Festivals Beginning September 17, 2024

Americanafest (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 9.21]

Farm Science Review (London, Ohio) [thru 9.19]

Surry County Agricultural Fair (Mt. Airy, North Carolina) [thru 9.21]

Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia) [thru 10.4]

Feast Days

Agathocleia (Christian; Martyr)

Alan (Christian; Saint)

Albert of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Anastasius of Cyprus (Christian; Saint)

Ariadne of Phrygia (Christian; Saint)

Cecilia Eusepi (Christian; Blessed)

Charalampus, Pantaloon, and others (Christian; Martyrs)

Columba (Christian; Martyr)

Day of the Nine Witches (Celtic Book of Days)

Elizabeth Enright (Artology)

Eusipius of Cypress (Christian; Saint)

The Feast of the Impression of the Stigmata Upon St. Francis (Christian)

Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burmese God of Drinking)

François Marius Granet (Artology)

Full Moon [9th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Autumn Moon (Traditional)

Barley Moon (Alternate, England, Wicca)

Binara Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Chrysanthemum Moon (China)

Chusok (Harvest Festival; South Korea)

Corn Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Falling Leaves Moon (Traditional)

Fruit Moon (North America)

Han’gawi (Harvest Festival; North Korea)

Harvest Festival (Full Moon closest to Equinox)

Harvest Moon (Amer. Indian, Colonial, Neo-Pagan, Traditional)

Moon of Brown Leaves (Traditional)

Mulberry Moon (Choctaw)

Navajo Sing Festival (Navajo)

Nut Moon (Cherokee)

Singing Moon (Celtic)

Southern Hemisphere: Crow, Lenten, Sap, Sugar, Worm

Storm Moon (South Africa)

Taw Thalin Full Moon (Myanmar)

Wise-Crone Moon (Native American)

Zhongqiu (a.k.a. Chong Chao; China)

Ganesha Chaturthi (Festival to god of prosperity, Prudence & success; Hindu)

Heraclides and Myrtle, Bishops of Cyprus (Christian; Martyrs)

Hildegard of Bingen (Christian; Saint) [hop-growers]

Jeff MacNelly (Artology)

John Creasey (Writerism)

Ken Kesey (Writerism)

Lambert of Maestricht (Christian; Anglican; Martyr)

Lucky and her son Gemiinian of Rome (Christian; Martyrs)

Media Aestas XI (Pagan)

M. F. Husain (Artology)

Niketeria (Ancient Greece)

Nilius (Christian; Saint)

Patermuthius, Elias, and 156 others of Palestine (Christian; Martyrs)

Peleus, Archbishop (Christian; Martyr)

Peter Arbues (Christian; Martyr)

The Return of Kelp-Koli Celebration (Under Duress; Shamanism)

Robert Bellarmine (Christian; Saint)

Rouin (a.k.a. Rodingus or Chrodingus; Christian; Saint)

Samuel Prout (Artology)

Satyrus of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Secret Rites of Demeter Festival (Everyday Wicca)

Shiku (Muppetism)

Socrates and Stephen (Christian; Martyrs)

Sophia and her 3 Daughters, Faith, Hope, and Love (Christian; Martyrs)

Stanislaus Papczyński (Christian; Saint)

Stigmata of Francis (Christian; Saint)

Theodora at Nicaea (Christian; Martyr)

Tirso (Positivist; Saint)

Wear Purple Day (Pastafarian)

William Carlos Williams (Writerism)

William Shatner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Zeno (Christian; Saint)

Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (Christian; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chuseok (a.k.a. Hangar; Korea)

Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhong Qin Jie; China, Taiwan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [37 of 53]

Premieres

The Age of Innocence (Film; 1993)

Almost Perfect (TV Series; 1995)

Alpha and Omega (Animated Film; 2010)

Ænima, by Tool (Album; 1996)

Anna (Go to Him), by Arthur Alexander (Song; 1962)

Archer (Animated TV Series; 2009)

Battlestar Gallactica (TV Series; 1978)

The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1945)

Bewitched (TV Series; 1964)

Blackadder the Third (UK TV Series; 1987)

Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin (Play; 1870)

Buried Treasure, featuring the Captain and the Kids (MGM Cartoon; 1938)

Community (TV Series; 2009)

Divine Madness (Concert Film; 1980)

Easy A (Film; 2010)

For Love of the Game (Film; 1999)

Ghost in the Sheep 2: Innocence (Anime Film; 2004)

Goldfinger premiered in London (1964) [James Bond #3]

Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1961)

Home Improvement (TV Series; 1991)

The Keeper of the Bees, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Novel; 1925)

Kiko’s Cleaning Day (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Little Rural Riding Hod, featuring Red (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (Novel; 1954)

M*A*S*H (TV Series; 1972)

Mike’s New Car (Pixar Cartoon; 2002)

Mississippi Mud (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Nona (Pixar Cartoon; 2021)

The Ocean Waves or Hi, Divers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 213; 1963)

Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Novel; 1932) [Venus #1]

Ride Him, Bosko! (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1962)

Somewhere in Egypt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

A Song of Summer, by Frederick Delius (Tone Poem; 1931)

Speedy Gonzales (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Spin City (TV Series; 1996)

Squid Game (TV Series; 2021)

Swing Ding Amigo (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Swords and Ice Magic, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1977) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #6]

The Thin Red Line, by James Jones (Novel; 1962)

Topsy Turvy, Part 6 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 214; 1963)

Underdog vs. Overcat, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 1 & 2; 1966)

Use Your Illusion, by Guns N’ Roses (Albums; 1991)

The Wall (Animated Film; 1982)

The Whoopee Party (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Wimbledon (Film; 2004)

The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan W. Watts (Spiritual Book; 1951)

Wise Up Ghost, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Lambert, Robert (Austria)

Lyuba, Lyuben, Lyubomir, Lyubov, Nadezhda, Nadya, Sevda, Sofiya, Vera, Vyara (Bulgaria)

Hildegarda, Kerubina, Robert (Croatia)

Naděžda (Czech Republic)

Lambertu (Denmark)

Hilda, Hildegard, Hille, Hilli, Ille, Illi (Estonia)

Aila, Aili (Finland)

Hildegarde, Lambert, Renaud (France)

Ariane, Hildegard, Robert (Germany)

Agape, Agapi, Elpida, Sofia, Sophia (Greece)

Zsófia (Hungary)

Benedetto, Ildegarda, Roberto (Italy)

Solvita, Vaira, Vairis, Vera (Latvia)

Pranas, Pranciškus, Sintautas, Sintautė (Lithuania)

Hildebj, Hildegunn (Norway)

Ariadna, Dezyderiusz, Drogosław, Franciszek, Hildegarda, Justyn, Justyna, Lambert, Lamberta, Narcyz, Teodora (Poland)

Olympia (Slovakia)

Ariadna, Ariana, Belarmino, Roberto (Spain)

Hildegard, Magnhild (Sweden)

Luba, Lubov, Nadia, Sonia, Soophia (Ukraine)

Ariadne, Ariana, Arianna, Hildegard, Hildegarde, Lambert, Lambertine (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 261 of 2024; 105 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 15 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Elul 5784

Islamic: 13 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 21 Gold; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 4 September 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 9 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Vondel]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 90 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 27 of 32)

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Holidays 9.17

Holidays

Adoption Day (Ukraine)

Arbaeen of Hosseini (Iran) [40th Day after Ashura]

Australian Citizenship Day (Australia)

Battle Flag Day

BIPOC Vamp Day

Celebration of Virtue Day (French Republic)

Citizenship Day (f.k.a. "I Am An American" Day)

Constitution Day

Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala (Tonga)

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 7: Women

Empire Day (Emperor Norton)

Feast of the Pilgrims (Villers-Perwin, Belgium)

Fiestas Pátrias (Chile, Nicaragua)

Fundación de Melilla (Melilla, Spain)

Guess Who Day (Winnipeg, Canada)

International Country Music Day

International Familial Mediterranean Fever Day

International Guinep Day

International Irish Dance Day

International Microorganism Day

Kleefstra Syndrome Awareness Day

Linux Day

Love and Friendship Day (Colombia)

LP Record Unveiling Day

Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra, India)

Naked Bicycle Race Day

National Arielle K. Sterrett Day

National Bobby Day

National Female Civility Day

National Fox Day

National G Day

National Heroes’ Day (Angola)

National Hues Day (Chile)

National Pet Bird Day

National Pet Carbon Monoxide Safety Day

National Physician Suicide Awareness Day

National Professional House Cleaners Day

National Social Media Managers Day

National Table Shuffleboard Day

National Transportation Day (Indonesia)

National Unemployment Day (India)

National Unity Day (Belarus)

National Voter Registration Day

New Dog Tricks Day

917 Day (Philippines)

Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Day

Operation Market Garden Day (Netherlands)

Pledge Across America Day [Sep 17 or nearest Monday]

Pompéia (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Porsche 917 Day

Red Cross Day (Indonesia)

Rescuer’s Day (Ukraine)

Soviet Invasion of Poland Anniversary Day

Sybirak’s Day (Poland)

Teachers’ Day (Honduras)

Time’s Up Day

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day

Victory of Uproot Day (Burundi)

Vishwakarma Puja (Jharkhand & Uttarakhand, India)

Von Steuben Day

World Cycling Day

World Manta Day

World Patient Safety Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Dumpling Day

International Lambic Day

National Bakery Day

National Monte Cristo Day

Independence & Related Days

Commonwealth of Australia (Formally Proclaimed; 1900)

Constitution Day (US)

Constitution signed (United States; 1787)

Heist-op-den-Berg (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Melilla Day (Spain)

Scientopia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Siquijor Day (Philippines)

Trimountain (Town Name Changed to Boston; 1630)

Zamboanga del Sur Day (Philippines)

3rd Tuesday in September

Get Ready Day [3rd Tuesday]

National APRP Recognition Day [3rd Tuesday]

National IT Professionals Day [3rd Tuesday]

National Voter Registration Day [3rd Tuesday]

Prinsjesdag (Netherlands) [3rd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day [3rd Tuesday]

Tapas Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trusting Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

World Apheresis Awareness Day [3rd Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 17 (3rd Full Week of September)

Constitution Week (US; thru 9.23)

National Ballroom Dancing Week (thru 9.23)

National Family Week (thru 9.23)

World Body Painting Festival Week (thru 9.23)

Festivals Beginning September 17, 2024

Americanafest (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 9.21]

Farm Science Review (London, Ohio) [thru 9.19]

Surry County Agricultural Fair (Mt. Airy, North Carolina) [thru 9.21]

Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia) [thru 10.4]

Feast Days

Agathocleia (Christian; Martyr)

Alan (Christian; Saint)

Albert of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)

Anastasius of Cyprus (Christian; Saint)

Ariadne of Phrygia (Christian; Saint)

Cecilia Eusepi (Christian; Blessed)

Charalampus, Pantaloon, and others (Christian; Martyrs)

Columba (Christian; Martyr)

Day of the Nine Witches (Celtic Book of Days)

Elizabeth Enright (Artology)

Eusipius of Cypress (Christian; Saint)

The Feast of the Impression of the Stigmata Upon St. Francis (Christian)

Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burmese God of Drinking)

François Marius Granet (Artology)

Full Moon [9th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Autumn Moon (Traditional)

Barley Moon (Alternate, England, Wicca)

Binara Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Chrysanthemum Moon (China)

Chusok (Harvest Festival; South Korea)

Corn Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Falling Leaves Moon (Traditional)

Fruit Moon (North America)

Han’gawi (Harvest Festival; North Korea)

Harvest Festival (Full Moon closest to Equinox)

Harvest Moon (Amer. Indian, Colonial, Neo-Pagan, Traditional)

Moon of Brown Leaves (Traditional)

Mulberry Moon (Choctaw)

Navajo Sing Festival (Navajo)

Nut Moon (Cherokee)

Singing Moon (Celtic)

Southern Hemisphere: Crow, Lenten, Sap, Sugar, Worm

Storm Moon (South Africa)

Taw Thalin Full Moon (Myanmar)

Wise-Crone Moon (Native American)

Zhongqiu (a.k.a. Chong Chao; China)

Ganesha Chaturthi (Festival to god of prosperity, Prudence & success; Hindu)

Heraclides and Myrtle, Bishops of Cyprus (Christian; Martyrs)

Hildegard of Bingen (Christian; Saint) [hop-growers]

Jeff MacNelly (Artology)

John Creasey (Writerism)

Ken Kesey (Writerism)

Lambert of Maestricht (Christian; Anglican; Martyr)

Lucky and her son Gemiinian of Rome (Christian; Martyrs)

Media Aestas XI (Pagan)

M. F. Husain (Artology)

Niketeria (Ancient Greece)

Nilius (Christian; Saint)

Patermuthius, Elias, and 156 others of Palestine (Christian; Martyrs)

Peleus, Archbishop (Christian; Martyr)

Peter Arbues (Christian; Martyr)

The Return of Kelp-Koli Celebration (Under Duress; Shamanism)

Robert Bellarmine (Christian; Saint)

Rouin (a.k.a. Rodingus or Chrodingus; Christian; Saint)

Samuel Prout (Artology)

Satyrus of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Secret Rites of Demeter Festival (Everyday Wicca)

Shiku (Muppetism)

Socrates and Stephen (Christian; Martyrs)

Sophia and her 3 Daughters, Faith, Hope, and Love (Christian; Martyrs)

Stanislaus Papczyński (Christian; Saint)

Stigmata of Francis (Christian; Saint)

Theodora at Nicaea (Christian; Martyr)

Tirso (Positivist; Saint)

Wear Purple Day (Pastafarian)

William Carlos Williams (Writerism)

William Shatner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Zeno (Christian; Saint)

Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (Christian; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chuseok (a.k.a. Hangar; Korea)

Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhong Qin Jie; China, Taiwan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [37 of 53]

Premieres

The Age of Innocence (Film; 1993)

Almost Perfect (TV Series; 1995)

Alpha and Omega (Animated Film; 2010)

Ænima, by Tool (Album; 1996)

Anna (Go to Him), by Arthur Alexander (Song; 1962)

Archer (Animated TV Series; 2009)

Battlestar Gallactica (TV Series; 1978)

The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (Novel; 1945)

Bewitched (TV Series; 1964)

Blackadder the Third (UK TV Series; 1987)

Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin (Play; 1870)

Buried Treasure, featuring the Captain and the Kids (MGM Cartoon; 1938)

Community (TV Series; 2009)

Divine Madness (Concert Film; 1980)

Easy A (Film; 2010)

For Love of the Game (Film; 1999)

Ghost in the Sheep 2: Innocence (Anime Film; 2004)

Goldfinger premiered in London (1964) [James Bond #3]

Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (Play; 1961)

Home Improvement (TV Series; 1991)

The Keeper of the Bees, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Novel; 1925)

Kiko’s Cleaning Day (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Little Rural Riding Hod, featuring Red (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (Novel; 1954)

M*A*S*H (TV Series; 1972)

Mike’s New Car (Pixar Cartoon; 2002)

Mississippi Mud (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Nona (Pixar Cartoon; 2021)

The Ocean Waves or Hi, Divers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 213; 1963)

Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Novel; 1932) [Venus #1]

Ride Him, Bosko! (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1962)

Somewhere in Egypt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

A Song of Summer, by Frederick Delius (Tone Poem; 1931)

Speedy Gonzales (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Spin City (TV Series; 1996)

Squid Game (TV Series; 2021)

Swing Ding Amigo (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Swords and Ice Magic, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1977) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #6]

The Thin Red Line, by James Jones (Novel; 1962)

Topsy Turvy, Part 6 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 214; 1963)

Underdog vs. Overcat, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 1 & 2; 1966)

Use Your Illusion, by Guns N’ Roses (Albums; 1991)

The Wall (Animated Film; 1982)

The Whoopee Party (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Wimbledon (Film; 2004)

The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan W. Watts (Spiritual Book; 1951)

Wise Up Ghost, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Lambert, Robert (Austria)

Lyuba, Lyuben, Lyubomir, Lyubov, Nadezhda, Nadya, Sevda, Sofiya, Vera, Vyara (Bulgaria)

Hildegarda, Kerubina, Robert (Croatia)

Naděžda (Czech Republic)

Lambertu (Denmark)

Hilda, Hildegard, Hille, Hilli, Ille, Illi (Estonia)

Aila, Aili (Finland)

Hildegarde, Lambert, Renaud (France)

Ariane, Hildegard, Robert (Germany)

Agape, Agapi, Elpida, Sofia, Sophia (Greece)

Zsófia (Hungary)

Benedetto, Ildegarda, Roberto (Italy)

Solvita, Vaira, Vairis, Vera (Latvia)

Pranas, Pranciškus, Sintautas, Sintautė (Lithuania)

Hildebj, Hildegunn (Norway)

Ariadna, Dezyderiusz, Drogosław, Franciszek, Hildegarda, Justyn, Justyna, Lambert, Lamberta, Narcyz, Teodora (Poland)

Olympia (Slovakia)

Ariadna, Ariana, Belarmino, Roberto (Spain)

Hildegard, Magnhild (Sweden)

Luba, Lubov, Nadia, Sonia, Soophia (Ukraine)

Ariadne, Ariana, Arianna, Hildegard, Hildegarde, Lambert, Lambertine (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 261 of 2024; 105 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 15 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Elul 5784

Islamic: 13 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 21 Gold; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 4 September 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 9 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Vondel]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 90 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 27 of 32)

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Remembering Black Wednesday in Penn Yan

By Jonathan Monfiletto

The best thing – indeed, probably the only good thing – to come out of the fire at the Penn Yan fire station on Wednesday, December 20, 1967 was there was only one major injury, that to a firefighter who suffered a dislocated shoulder from flying debris caused by an explosion after the fire started. Otherwise, that day – called Black Wednesday in local lore – well earned its moniker and reputation as a tragic moment for Penn Yan and Yates County.

Firefighters are heroes, period. The firefighters of Penn Yan, Yates County, and surrounding communities display their courage and bravery every time they respond to an emergency scene, especially those who are volunteers and must leave their homes and jobs to answer the call. And the firefighters of Penn Yan and beyond certainly showed their fortitude on Black Wednesday.

Ten years later, Harry Monnin – a firefighter and the janitor at the firehouse, then located on Main Street in Penn Yan, in the present-day location of the Penn Yan Elks Lodge – told a Geneva newspaper he was the last person in the building on the morning of the fire. It felt unusually hot inside the building, he said; after walking through the building but finding nothing, he turned down the thermostat thinking someone had left it up too high. According to the chief’s log book, the fire started at 8:06 a.m. that day and later was determined to have been caused by an overheated furnace boiler.

John Banach, the fire chief at the time, operated a barbershop around the corner on Elm Street and – with a handful of other firefighters who worked in the downtown vicinity – was one of the first firefighters on the scene. Having heard one blast of the fire horn warning system before the fire consumed it and seeing the building engulfed in flames when he went around the corner, Banach knew what it meant and rushed to the scene. He called the Yates County Sheriff and ordered every other Yates County fire department – Bellona, Benton, Branchport, Dresden, Dundee, Kashong, and Keuka Park – to provide mutual aid. He also called fire departments in Geneva, Ontario County, and Wayne, Steuben County, for help, and other area departments provided support at the fire stations of the departments that responded.

Meanwhile, at the scene, firefighters opened the front doors of the blazing building; Jim Shamp reached inside to give one more pull of the fire horn to alert the community, and Bernard Linehan managed to grab five lengths of hose so the firefighters could begin battling the blaze at their own firehouse. Those hoses ended up being the only firefighting equipment saved from the fire. At one point, a burning pumper truck rolled on its own through the open front doors and into the street; bystanders with the presence of mind to toss a garbage can in front of the truck stopped it from crashing into the Beaumont and Stork Insurance Agency building across the street. Another firefighter with quick thinking rescued some equipment from the truck.

Despite the odds stacked against them, with hopelessness and futility, Penn Yan firefighters valiantly fought the fire for 20 minutes while awaiting the arrival of other fire departments. Two firefighters manning a hose at the rear of the building were hit by flying debris when there was a second explosion inside the firehouse; Levi Titus suffered a dislocated shoulder in the incident. Three other firefighters suffered minor cuts and bruises, and other responders were treated for smoke inhalation.

Dresden firefighters arrived on the scene first and Geneva firefighters made it in record time, dispatching an aerial truck with a 75-foot extension ladder and an emergency truck. Also serving at the scene were two aerial trucks from Harvard Tree Surgeons, of Canandaigua, which happened to be working in the village at the time, and from the village Department of Public Works. A total of 150 firefighters assisted that day, according to one report.

At the time, the Penn Yan firehouse was wedged on the east side of Main Street between the A&P Supermarket on its north side and the Thompson Furniture Store on its south side. Like the firehouse, the grocery store was destroyed, while the furniture store sustained smoke and water damage. Ironically, all three buildings were scheduled for demolition under the village’s urban renewal projects of the period and plans for a new firehouse were underway. The firehouse and the grocery store buildings were each about 110 years old, while the furniture store building was around 75 years old. Village residents had recently approved a bond issue for the construction of a new firehouse, and the village board voted two days before the fire to seek bids for the project.

The north wall of the grocery store was in danger of collapsing onto the Lincoln Rochester Bank, so the bank stayed closed that day. Nevertheless, the alley in between the buildings helped contain the blaze, and a vacant store stood on the other side of the furniture store. While the fire blazed out of control for three hours, firefighters manned the scene until at least 8 p.m. Banach himself stood on duty for 14 hours and still fielded phone calls and returned messages when he got home that night. Though one newspaper report indicated a temperature of 29 degrees that day, another item expressed thanks for no snowfall, high winds, or sub-freezing temperatures during the wintertime fire.

A tow truck hauled a second pumper truck out of the burning fire station, while a third pumper and a ladder truck remained inside the firehouse. An emergency truck and a tanker truck stored at a subsidiary station on North Avenue were the only vehicles the fire department had after the fire, though offers to loan trucks and equipment poured in from firefighting companies and fire departments around the area. The fire departments that responded to the scene left behind some of their firefighting equipment for use by the Penn Yan firefighters. Along with the North Avenue station, temporary housing for the donated vehicles and equipment was made at Penn Yan Express, the Mobil Service Station, the Comstock Cannery, and the Dairymen’s League plant.

The Chamber of Commerce took up a collection from the community to meet any of the volunteer firefighters’ personal needs after the fire. Tones Garage, which removed the destroyed firetrucks from the scene, salvaged the wrecked vehicles and gave the money back to the fire department. Village officials and local residents also contributed to the fire department and firefighters in various other ways. The insurance companies worked cooperatively with the fire department as well, Banach said.

The fire knocked out the alarm system in place at the time to alert first responders of emergencies in the village. It was announced that fire calls would have to be phoned through the Yates County Sheriff’s Office to the fire department; phones would ring simultaneously in the homes of some firefighters, and their wives would alert other firefighters of the call. In an emergency meeting shortly after the fire, the village board authorized purchases of a new alarm system that could be installed a little more than a week after the fire and of any immediately needed equipment.

According to several newspaper reports, estimates of the losses in the fire range from $250,000 to $1 million. One-and-a-half-million gallons of water were used to conquer the blaze. Fortunately, though, there were no fatalities and only relatively minor injuries, and the Yates County community rallied around the Penn Yan fire department in the wake of the tragedy.

Yes, Black Wednesday was a dark day, but it was also a bright day in some regards. John Tusch, the mayor of Penn Yan at the time, summed it up this way 10 years later: “Some people referred to December 20 as Black Wednesday. In the early and mid-morning, it did appear to be just that. But out of the black smoke of disaster, there blossomed a bright radiance of warmth and kindness from human hearts which will surely be remembered as long or longer than the black smoke.”

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American Auto Trail-Meads Creek Valley (Cooper Plains to Watkins Glen NY)

American Auto Trail-Meads Creek Valley (Cooper Plains to Watkins Glen NY) https://youtu.be/l6Ij_Y4baoE This American auto trail explores sections of Steuben and Schuyler counties in south central New York State.