Photos of the 1912 event show crowds of people out on the frozen lake; even
horses. But two Cornell students skating near King Ferry were drowned when the
ice gave way beneath them. Here's the Cornell Daily Sun article:
http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=dd=CDS19120219.2.1
-Geo
Wow. That is really interesting. It shows how much colder it was in the 1800s
and very early 1900s. It is almost unheard of
for any of the Finger Lake to freeze over today. The above period was during
the end of the Little Ice Age before the early 20th
century warm-up.
On Sunday, February
Hi Folks,
The class field trip was postponed from last week to 9 Feb. Of
course it snowed, made roads slippery and we turned around to get home
earlier than intended. But ... .
We go two Snowy Owls, one along Rt 34 just north of Lane Rd and
about 1 mile south of Genoa on a fence
In 1970, I worked as the class clerk for the Cornell class of 1910. One alumnus
told me that, while a student, he had skated the length of Cayuga Lake to visit
with his Dad. He returned, also by skates, the next day. He said the lake
didn't stay frozen for very many days, and had failed to
I've had a N. MOCKINGBIRD at my feeders for 3 days now. First ever. I arrived
Sat. morn., where I first saw it at the suet-cake cages. It was having trouble,
as it still does, hanging low on the side, but it can manage. I'm not sure
what attracted it to the compostpile at the back of the
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* February 10, 2014
* NYSY 02. 10. 14
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
February 03, 2013 - February 10, 2014
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands
