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Post by artsyone on Feb 18, 2021 10:43:01 GMT -5
 A little history on the side never hurts. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2021 20:41:11 GMT -5
A great thing that was. I read someplace that the City at first was going to decline the offer because they were not sure if the City could afford the upkeep. We are seeing that today. It is the Conservatory that is taking care of them. www.facebook.com/cnyconservancy |
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Post by artsyone on Feb 19, 2021 11:41:04 GMT -5
A great thing that was. I read someplace that the City at first was going to decline the offer because they were not sure if the City could afford the upkeep. We are seeing that today. It is the Conservatory that is taking care of them. www.facebook.com/cnyconservancyThank you for your kind and informative reply. This project is quite lengthy and involved and Dave's park history quotes are dispersed throughout the thread, so I have decided to post them all together. This is the first one and thanks for joining us on this postcard tour of "Parks of Old Utica". |
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Post by artsyone on Feb 20, 2021 10:58:55 GMT -5
 This is not really readable. I am sorry. Maybe someone can figure out how to enlarge it. On Nov 26, 213 Dave sent this to me: The July 3rd, 1909 copy of the Utica Saturday Globe covered the opening of Roscoe Conkling Park: Dave writes that "The reporter fell all over himself in praise of Thomas R. Proctor and his brother Frederick for developing the parks and placing them under the ownership of the city ( at that time)." Below is an exert from the paper: "The eye may not see nor the heart wish for a more pleasing panorama of beauty than that which is unfolded to the spectator standing on the hills looking down on Pleasant Street. The city, like a veritable forest, lies at one's feet. The closing exercise at the boulder will be the singing of America by the choirs, choral societies and children of Utica, after which, at Valley View, the magnificent eminance to the South of the woods, there will be a balloon ascension of Professor C.C. Phelps, of McConnell." ( My thoughts: how wonderful it would have been to have been there on that day.) |
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Post by artsyone on Feb 20, 2021 11:22:52 GMT -5
following this will be a funny dialouge by Dave on the history of Utica and then a series of postcard views of the Parks: I am trying to co-ordinate all the information so that it makes some logical sense ,so stay tuned for more historical insanity in the days to come.
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Post by artsyone on Feb 24, 2021 11:36:00 GMT -5
Dave's Utica: Can you guess? So, here is one that even General Nicholas Herkimer couldn't guess: Someone drew the name of Utica out of a hat one day about 150 years ago, give or take a few, down at the now defunct Bagg's Square Hotel, but where did the original name, Utica, come from? If you set off on a fast donkey from the ancient city of Carthage in Tunisia and head due West through the arid desert you'll reach what's left of Utica after about 40 miles. A photo of the ruins is below, along with a snap shot of a popular Utica couple, Amphrite and Poseiden, stepping out in style one balmy night. Do that in modern Utica today and youde be arrested...mabye...  |
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Post by artsyone on Feb 24, 2021 11:41:43 GMT -5
Shall we move on to some spectacular views of the Parks? I know I posted these before, but they were lost in context and I thought it might be nice to see them all together. Please feel free to add to this post any that you may have. I know I am missing quite a few.
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Post by artsyone on Feb 24, 2021 11:45:31 GMT -5
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Post by artsyone on Feb 24, 2021 11:46:38 GMT -5
to be continued soon.
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Post by artsyone on Feb 26, 2021 18:42:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2021 17:58:33 GMT -5
If only they were kept up so as to look like that today. Some of the structures are being discovered in the park which were over grown with weeds and debris.
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 22:36:42 GMT -5
This is one of my favorites, the view of the resavouir from Roscoe Conkling Park. |
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 22:42:23 GMT -5
A summer's morning...in the long, long ago.
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 22:50:04 GMT -5
Roscoe Conkling Park. |
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 22:53:52 GMT -5
 The rock!!! |
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