October 15, 1961, my Christening day. I was several weeks premature (5)? So I was small for a month old.
 It's  funny, because most of the time on my birthday -- both as a child and  adult -- I have a homemade cake, and that's my preference. But for my  first it looks to be store-bought. This is at St. Francis DeSales Church in Phoenicia. 
I got the three above in the memory shadowbox my mother gave me for my birthday. 
This  is Bresee's Health Bar in Oneonta. I'm so glad I found it. Sadly, the  Health Bar is no more. Lots of good memories from this place, including  lunch there being the last time I saw a friend who died a week later.  But that's hardly the only lasting impression, I ate there nearly every  day and twice on Thursdays, when Main Street stayed open late. It was  the site of many deep college-inspired discussions, also coffee was 25  cents a cup and two homemade cookies were another quarter -- or was it  only fifteen cents? Even in the early '80s, that was dirt cheap. They  had cream cheese on banana bread with a side of peaches as a daily  sandwich choice. Our favorite waitress was named Grace, a tall, thin,  aged, sturdy, lovely and kindly Otsego County lady, and she'd worked  there for 40 years. RIP Bresee's!I liked getting my master's on this campus. Maybe because of its roots as a normal school? Was that a harbinger that eventually I would be teaching?
I have a few different views of Bishop's Falls, including a large framed photograph. This was the spot where they started the Ashokan Reservoir. Wish I could have seen it in the real world!






 
 
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