A visitor from Hong Hong found us by searching Yahoo for Skantaeles. Apparently they found what they were looking for because they spent quite a bit of time perusing our Skaneateles Suites Dockside Vaction Rentals.

We don’t know how to say it in Cantonese, but around here we are Skan E at (eh) less. And welcome to the StorBook Village.

Skaneateles, NY. StoryBook Village in the Fingerlakes Region of Central New York. Hard to pronounce and even harder to spell.

That said, someone found us using a Dogpile search for Skaeneatlis.

The Village and it’s history throw back to the Iroquois Indian Nation. Westward travelers on the Old Seneca Turnpike (another Indian name) first found us because we are the most Eastern of the Finger Lakes.

THE FIRE BELL Beth Batlle, Town Historian

Sitting on a brick pedestal in front of the fire station on Fennell Street is one of the earliest forms of alerting the fire fighters of the community. The large bell was originally housed in the 12-foot-square, 59-foot-high tower of the red brick and stone fire station that was located at the corner of Jordan and Fennell Streets.

All through the 1800s the large bell tolled for alarms. Anyone knowing of a fire would run to the fire station and ring the bell. Eventually more modern forms of alerting the fire fighters of an emergency were used, such as electrically operated roof top sirens and fire alarm boxes located on utility poles throughout the Village. The last time the bell was rung from the old fire station was October 4, 1964, when the fire department moved down the street to its present location. The brick pedestal for the old bell was constructed in 1975, made of the same yellow brick as the fire station. Inside the base was placed a copper history box: a time capsule of sorts, it contained 1890 items from the cornerstone box of the old fire station, such as a copy of the Skaneateles Democrat and Skaneateles Free Press. Items from 1975 were added, including a copy of the Skaneateles Press and Pennysaver.

Just recently the bell was removed from its base and put into storage until the time comes when it can be installed at the new fire house at the corner of West Genesee Street and Kane Avenue. The time capsule is currently being stored in a safe and will be opened at the 175th anniversary dinner scheduled for April of 2008.

Editor’s note: If you haven’t had a chance to see Lisa Leubner’s gingerbread model of the red brick fire house, please make a point of visiting the Creamery to check it out.

A late night web searcher found us, and booked a room, [thank-you-very-much] by googling ‘skinnyatlas’. I did the same and found an East Coast Rock n Roll Band.

Conclusion: If you want music click here. If you want a great place to stay in Skaneateles, NY, you have already found it.

An MSN seacher was looking for a Vacation Rental on SkEAneateles Lake lat night and found us, SkANeateles Suites. We welcome you, Mr. MSN Searcher. But be prepared, at population 5,000, you probably have that many living on your block.

Here is an interesting article for those of you who care about toilet testing.

Cornell Cooperative Extention says: 

Residential development accounts for only 5-6% of the land use in the watershed. Many homes on the southern end of the lake hug the base of steep cliffs.

Land use in the watershed is 48% agricultural, 40.2% forest, 5.4% private/residential and the rest vacant or commercial. Only a small portion (8%) of the watershed land area is in public ow\nership. Consequently, pollution prevention and watershed protection measures depend to a large extent on local land uses controls and pollution prevention strategies. Every citizen in the watershed plays a role in protecting Skaneateles Lake.

Over 95% of the farms in the watershed are doing their part to protect Skaneateles Lake by participating voluntarily in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed Agricultural Program.

A web surfer in Arizona found us after searching Yahoo for ‘skanatales’ and looked around for about 15 minutes. We hope they found what they wanted.

Meanwhile, a long time ago a young girl was born in Skanateles, NY. She moved to Ohio and lived a long life.

 http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=12290&id=I11458
Name: Hannah BODLEY
Sex: F
Birth: 9 FEB 1799 in Skanatales, Onondago Co. NY
Death: 4 JUL 1883 in Fulton Co. OH