For more than two years I met with a group of writers at a salon (that’s salon, not saloon) on Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse. It was across the street and down a piece from the Samaritan Center, which provides hot meals daily for those in need.


During that time, I met several regular and occasional diners at the center. Some were street people or those that lived on the streets because of problems with addiction or mental illness. There were still others with disabilities who lived on government assistance that didn’t cover their basic requirements of food and shelter. Some were passing through a time of need because of a move or a job loss or a desperate family emergency or a combination of trying circumstances...

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The two women who have collaborated on the Morris’s Grill commemorative note card had never visited the saloon. But that didn’t stop them from appreciating the roadhouse’s appeal and position in the Skaneateles Community.


One Skaneateles hairdresser said she was surprised at how upset a lot of her older clientele was at the tavern’s demise. Again, these were often people who had never crossed the watering hole’s threshold.
Why, she asked?


Because it was part of their children’s passage, part of growing up in Skaneateles. Turning of age, the young folk could finally rub elbows with other adults...

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