Who says you can’t go home again? That’s one of the interesting characteristics about Skaneateles. One can absolutely come home again. I know; I’ve done it several times. And, each time the experience has been richer than the last.


Where’ve I been?


I spent two and a half years on the Syracuse beat for Eagle Newspapers, while living on a working apple farm in LaFayette.


The past couple of years have been an interesting juxtaposition: city streets by day, the birds and the bees at night, and sometimes the other way around!


Coming from a foodservice background, I thought I knew I thing or two about apples. And I was right, I knew about two things about apples...

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Sometime around the NCAA tournament in Syracuse, I was walking with a friend in St. Mary’s cemetery, when a car pulled in with out-of-state plates. A young woman got out and called to us, asking if we were from Skaneateles.


“Yes,” I said.


“Did you know John Kelly?” she asked.


“Everyone did,” I said.


He was just that kind of rascal; and if you didn’t personally know him, his tragic death on the lake in July 2007 was a bitter introduction.


“Is he buried here?” she said.


“It’s the catholic cemetery, so I assume so,” I said.


Yet, in our weekly meanderings we hadn’t run across his gravestone. St...

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The Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadow gave its visitors a glimpse into the future. How we would be living almost Jetson-like in the 21st century. It was a future that is being realized with Apple’s iPhone 4.


The difference is in the quality of 3.5 inch (retina) display with 326 pixels per inch and In Plane Switching (IPS), which allows for a wider viewing angle with a clean, clear view. Top this off with two 5-megapixel cameras, one in front and one in back. The camera on the face of the phone allows for the user to photograph or video themselves - even while talking to another iPhone 4 user - with a feature called face time. This means two people can really be talking and viewing each other with the touch of a button using a handheld device...

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