We do a lot of “Girl’s Nights Out”.  Partly this is because our Bungalows and the Main House are particularly well suited (Suite-ed) get it?) and partly because our property has lot’s of personality. Today I received this from Nancy:

Hi, Julie!

We never got the chance to meet, but I wanted you to know how great the weekend was, and how much everyone enjoyed the main house.    We found it very quiet and comfy!     During the downpour of the afternoon, we played board games and sat in the kitchen chatting and having a great time.     One of the gals had broken her ankle about a week before we left but she was able to use the downstairs bedroom and really loved the shower!   

Thanks for everything – we had a blast!

Nancy

PS – your kitchen could use some Pampered Chef items! 

Nancy Rouse
Ind. Sales Director for
Pampered Chef
www.pamperedchef.biz/cambpchefnancy
67 West Main Street
Cambridge, NY  12816
(518) 677-5481

Date: April 14, 2007
Time: 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/onondaga/watersheds/skanhome.htm
Event Description
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County will offer a twilight program about local frogs and what their songs can tell us about our water and Skaneateles Lake.

The young and young at heart will learn about frogs using a miniature lake model and the ?Name That Frog!? listening game. Participants will then be led on a short, guided walk along fields and wetlands at the south end of Skaneateles Lake to listen for the peeps, ribbits, hums, and croaks of various springtime singers.

To register, call Cooperative Extension at (315) 424-9485 ext 0. Space is limited. Bring a flashlight and dress for the weather!

While we realize this might not rise to the National news, we live here and our identity is at stake. Small wonder that this debate consumes us all.

One thing all York Staters have in common is Indian. American Indian that is. And specifically The Iroquois Confederacy. [Remember the Six Nations from High School history?]

What we know for sure is that after the American Revolution we were broke, so we gave away land grants in Upstate New York to everybody we owed money to. As an aside we also know the beaurocratic clerk who drew up the maps was an aficionado of Roman History. [Thus all the Brutus's and Cato's and Marcellus's.] We also know that the owners of the Land Grants didn’t want them, so they sold them. Cheap.

Thus, people bought the then-cheap land and starting in 1795, moved here in droves and re-settled the Indian villages and in many cases kept the names. For most of you, this is not a Big Deal. Happily, you live in a Genesee,or Cayuga, or Onondaga. Not so for us; we have an identity crisis in the StoryBook Village.

Is it Skan-E-At-Las or Skinny-Atlas? We have also seen or heard: Skaneatelis, Skanapolis, Skanateles, Scaneatles, Skaneatles, Skanetelas, Skaneatlas, Skaneatelas, Skaneatele, Skan-e-a-ties and of course, Skana-telles.

I have lived here for 56 years and I say SKAN-E-AT-LES. So does the Village website and the Historical Society and the American Heritage Dictionary of English Language. BUT… many locals say Skinny. Is a simple matter that 5 syllable words are difficult to pronounce after several beers? Any linguists out there?

Further, we cannot agree amongst ourselves about the Indian derivation meaning.

Conventional wisdom is that it means: “long,beautiful lake” but there is another argument it means: “long, lanky squaw who likes to make of babies”. Ha! I like the latter.

Skaneateles is a StoryBook Village. We live here and we know why: Walk to everything, sit on park benches with your neighbors, run to the Community Center to then work out, shop in one of the very unusual shops (like Angels on the Lake or Bella Blue) before you have lunch at Joe’s Pasta Garage.

Guess What? You can live here too, in one of our luxury Village Condos. Call Curt for details at 315-685-7568.

 Welcome, and thanks, to Joelle Mollinger and Alain Castel for their new (Obviously French) restaurant at 4223 State Street Road in Skaneateles.

Recently they moved from The Big Apple to Upstate New York and have converted a former Bed and Breakfast into Joelle’s.

From the Village Center, take State Street Road, Route 321 North past the Skaneateles Elementary School and the Community Center, past Welch Allyn and look to the left. Or call them at 315-685-3063.