by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 11, 2008 | Beacon Dispatch, Commentary, Writing
Rebroadcast from BeaconDispatch.com. I still remember the first good latte I got in Beacon. At the time there had been one or two places that had popped up on Main Street serving “European-style” coffee beverages on what was then a very young (or better...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 19, 2007 | Food, HousePosts
The best cranberry sauce ever! Just a few days from now we’ll all be sitting around the table giving thanks for the past year, sharing our lives with family and friends, and eating more than our fair share of turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, and, of course,...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 5, 2007 | HousePosts
For a wedding While the housework work has gone on (a fitting end to summer) I tripped off to Tennessee for a couple of days to visit friends and see their son, who I knew as a baby, get married. Jesse Alvey and Paige Barnett were married at Dyer Observatory in...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 12, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders, Writing
Where four days and three nights equal one wonderfully long vacation… Saturday morning we packed the car, put the canoe on top and headed to Lake George in the southern part of New York’s Adirondack Park. Four hours later… Wow! Waltonian Island is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 14, 2007 | Asides
I had the pleasure of reading, in its entirety, the latest issue of Outside Magazine today while I sat around Nail World waiting for my oldest daughter and one of her friends to get Man’d and Ped’d for an 8th grade formal tomorrow night. In the issue there...