135 MILES OF FARMS, FOOD & FUN ALONG ROUTES 5&20   
Cayuga County is a rich and diverse agricultural area that encourages our visitors to enjoy scenic drives along vineyard laden hillsides, hand-pick seasonal fruit, taste award-winning wines and enjoy seasonal festivals and fairs. (more…)

NATIONAL TOURISM WEEK, MAY 12-20   
Each May communities across the nation celebrate National Tourism Week with special events to highlight the importance of tourism to the economy. The main focus of National Tourism Week is to promote a wider understanding of travel and tourism as a major U.S. industry that is vital to the economic stability and growth of the United States and contributes substantially to its cultural and social well being.

Looking at the economic benefit of tourism; more than 20 million people visit New York’s Finger Lakes each year with spending by overnight leisure visitors adding more than $2 billion annually to the regional economy. In Cayuga County alone, tourism is responsible for 960 jobs.

National Tourism Week is the perfect time to focus on the impact of travel and tourism in our area, thank our visitors for their patronage, honor the employees who serve them and show our pride in the tourism industry.

If you have any special activities or events planned to celebrate National Tourism Week, please let the Tourism Office know so that we can help you promote them.

 Wednesday 7:00pm at Baltimore Woods call 315-685-8480 for details

Freedom’s Call” is about the American Deep South in the turbulent ’50′s and ’60′s. We journey to Memphis, Little Rock, Oxford, Jackson and the Mississippi Delta with two African-American journalists who covered the important stories of the era.
The film features Dorothy Gilliam, first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose work has appeared in the black press, The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Two of the stops along the way are visits with Minniejean Brown Trickey, one of “The Little Rock Nine,” and James Meredith, first African American to attend the University of Mississippi.

The 308 page book chronicles the activities of the 75th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War and is told in their own words.
On November 30, 1861, nearly a thousand men board a train at the State Street depot in Auburn, New York. On September 23rd, four years later, fewer than half returned. Some had mustered out a year earlier, some had come home with wounds that left them unable to serve. But most of the missing had been left in battlefield graves far from home, victims of cannon and grapeshot and mini ball and disease. Here, in letters, news accounts and diaries, are the stories of the men of the 75th New York who followed the drum into battle during the Civil War.

Author Donald E. Mortin has molded their stories into a compelling narrative; detailing the small joys and the excruciating hardship of a soldier’s daily life during the Civil War, and tracing the 75th New York through the regiment’s postings and battles. The result is a unique portrait of ordinary men engulfed in one of the most extraordinary periods in American history.

The book may be purchased in Moravia NY at the Cayuga-Owasco Lakes Historical Society & Museum during regular hours; in Auburn at the Cayuga County Historian’s Office (Old Court House Bldg/3rd floor) or Meyer Bookbinding – 35 Market Street; and in Skaneateles NY at the Creekside Book Cafe – 25 Fennel Street.

May 11 at 7:00 PM
An Inconvenient Truth followed by
discussion with Brian Hidy

All events are free and open to the public at
St. James Episcopal Church
96 East Genesee St.
Skaneateles, NY 13152