Continuing Thru 3/31/2011
Event: Spectacular Saturn
Location: Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), 500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-425-9068

Continuing Thru 11/7/2010
Event: Syracuse Stage presents: The 39 Steps
Location: Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-443-3275

Continuing Thru 11/7/2010
Event: Holidays at the Mansion
Location: The Barnes-Hiscock Mansion, 930 James Street, Syracuse
For More Info: 315-682-0556

Continuing Thru 12/3/2010
Event: Paintings by Adam Francey and Installations by Diane Banks
Location: Limestone Art & Framing Gallery, 207 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville
For More Info: 315-632-4445

Starts: 11/3/2010 Ends: 11/7/2010
Event: Syracuse Sporthorse Invitational Tournament
Location: War Memorial at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info: 800-234-4797

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: Concert: Roy Book Binder
Location: May Memorial Unitarian Universalists Society, 3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-440-7444

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: First Friday Glass Studio Art Event
Location: Snake Oil Glassworks, 4251 Jordan Road, Skaneateles
For More Info: 315-685-5091

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: Opening reception for exhibition by Michael DiGiorgio
Location: Imagine That… Gallery, 38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles
For More Info: 315-685-6264

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/6/2010
Event: Dinner & Comic at Toggenburg Mountain
Location: Toggenburg Mountain, 1135 Toggenburg Road, Fabius
For More Info: 315-683-5842 x13

Fun Fact about Syracuse & Onondaga County …. did you know …..

… the hamlet of Cardiff, which lies within the town of LaFayette, is the home to one of the biggest hoaxes in American History – the Cardiff Giant. George Hull, an atheist, hired a sculptor in Chicago and had the finished “giant” shipped by rail to the farm of William Newell where it was buried. About a year later (October 16, 1869), he had workers dig a well on the site and they found the giant. Hull set up a tent and charged 25 cents per person to see it. The premise was that this was evidence of a giant race of peoples that were mentioned in the Bible, Genesis 6:4. Eventually the exhibit was sold and moved to Syracuse where P.T. Barnum offered the new owner $50,000. When Barnum was turned down, he had a plaster replica made, noting that his was the original. In 1870, after much litigation, both were declared fakes. The original piece can be seen today at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown.

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Event: Exhibit: Objects and Atmospheres
Location: Limestone Art & Framing Gallery, 207 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville
For More Info: 315-632-4445

Continuing thru 10/31/2010
Event: Fall Harvest Festival
Location: Critz Farms, 3232 Rippleton Rd, Cazenovia
For More Info: 800-442-3225

Continuing thru 10/10/2010
Event: Syracuse Stage presents: No Child…
Location: Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-443-3275 (more…)

Fun Fact about Syracuse & Onondaga County …. did you know …..

…that the north side of the city of Syracuse was the home to many German immigrants. Contributions over the years to our area include Syracuse’s many great breweries of the 1900′s, several Lutheran churches, Catholic churches such as Assumption & historic Holy Trinity as well as monuments. The Goethe & Schiller monument, located in Schiller Park on the city’s north side is one of only 4 in the United States dedicated to these German authors & champions of the humanistic ideals of freedom & political liberty that stirred German desires for national unification & liberal reform during the early 19th century. The Sniper Monument, erected in 1905, honors the contributions of Civil War veteran Gustavus A. Sniper (1836-1894), a German immigrant who became a beloved son of Syracuse. The monument, located in Schlosser Park in the 400 block of North Salina Street, is Syracuse’s only equine monument.

Attached, please find this week’s edition of the Friday Facts. For details on any of these events or others down the road, take a gander at our website at www.VisitSyracuse.org.

Starts: 11/3/2010 Ends: 11/7/2010
Event: Syracuse Sporthorse Invitational Tournament
Location: War Memorial at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info: 800-234-4797
Syracuse Sporthorse Invitational Tournament