Fort Ontario stands guard

Needed in those days. Fort Ontario is a historic site where folks today can visit to see learn about its roles in the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. Housed refugees. Adjacent are restored buildings that served as refuge for Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The Fort was closed but I soaked…

I recall music from Harborfest at Breitbeck Park

Center of things. As soon as George pulled the car up to Breitbeck Park in Oswego, I recalled my time as the music reporter for the big daily covering music during concert doings for the huge annual Oswego Harborfest at the shoreline sight. The headline set by the Charlie Daniels Band came to mind first.…

There’s still a power plant with a big cooling tower in Oswego

Towering. An unmistakable feature over the Oswego shoreline is the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant. Constellation Energy’s Nine Mile Point station of course caught our attention over Lake Ontario. From the harbor. A syracusedotcome story from October 2022 said the plant will be fitted to produce hydrogen. Looming. It certainly stands out from…

Oswego Lighthouse stands out from many viewpoints

Show me the way. George pulled into Oswego’s refurbished harbor, and left me to squirm my way past the fence to get an unencumbered view toward the lighthouse down yonder. Nobody seemed to care that, yes, I may have been a foot or three into a space I was not supposed to go. Zooming right…

Cool art in the middle of almost nowhere

Powerful statement. George Two’s original text hook to entice me to this day trip through Oswego was his periodic encounters with a piece that sat quietly on a hill he’d driven past and wondered about throughout the last decade or so. In fact, he’d named the structure <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>. It stand on the outskirts…

One step closer to ordering

Looks like Johnny Depp on the Caribbean to me. No, I have yet to check out the casual seafood boil of Aloha Krab at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertaining complex Destiny USA. Coming steps closer to the pirate statue for my indoor walk, I figure, gets me closer to the big moment.

Warm place for a winter walk

Bite to its bark. My new joint alarm went off full force as my winter indoor walk at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA took me past the Pepper Palace. If I feel the need for any sort of cooking heat, this store will immediately pop to mind.

Sad to see this gap in the food court

No more beef n cheddars. Sometimes the closures hit harder. I can’t count the times my dear wife Karen and I cozied up to the Arby’s counter at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA to pick up sandwiches to eat right in the food court before a movie or store circuit. I…

My word, these modern times

Less than an ‘A’ in spelling. I know spelling doesn’t count for much anymore as folks use those thumbs to text messages as fast as possible. Still. A stickler I remain. And so this not-correctly spelled store name smacked me upside my head as I walked in Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny…