Meanwhile on the North Fork...........

[Maybenaut]

[bill_g]

Let's hope your friend is okay.

[Volkonski]

Let's hope your friend is okay.

No news yet.

[Volkonski]

Neighbor update.

He had a fall breaking bones in his shoulder and his humerus. Required surgery. His daughter tells us that he will be in the hospital tonight. Should return home tomorrow.

Not are bad as we feared.

[AndyinPA]

Definitely good news.

[bill_g]

That's good. Take him some meals when he gets home. While you can. You guys gotta be getting close to rotating back to Tejas.

[Volkonski]

Our neighbor is arriving home as I type this.

His daughters and sons are here so he is well taken care of. His regular caretaker is here too.

Wheelchair is next to the car. They are lifting him out
Slowly. Very slowly.

They got him in the wheelchair with some difficulty. He yelled a bit.

He is safely inside.

[neonzx]

[Volkonski]

Having a week of perfect late summer weather.

[Foggy]

Same same in Rawly. Sunny and low 80s. Love it. Good day to be outdoors.

[sugar magnolia]

Same here, except for that whole hurricane thing.

[Estiveo]

And here, on the inland side of the Santa Cruz mountains, after 2 weeks of temps in the low 100s, the marine layer has rolled back in! It's only supposed to maybe hit 80 today after the fog clears!

[Volkonski]

Our cottage was on the tour a few years ago. We were asked again this year but with Mrs. V. about to leave for Italy we thought it would be too much. Two other Circle cottages are on the tour this year.

History in the making... Historic Jamesport House tour returns tomorrow!

https://northforker.com/2024/09/histori ... n-sept-14/

Ever wish you could go back in time? On Saturday, September 14, you can when you take a stroll through an earlier era on the North Fork.

After a 13-year hiatus, the Historic Jamesport House Tour is back. Sixteen homes will open their doors for the event, many of which are located in the South Jamesport Historic District. Focused on the 19th century, history buffs will time-travel via houses built in bygone days, getting a glimpse of the historical and architectural value of what’s behind the front doors and garden gates. The oldest public building on the East End of Long Island — the 293-year-old Jamesport Meeting House — is slotted as the tour’s highlight.

According to local historian and Jamesport Meeting House president Richard Wines, most of the homes on the tour went up in the 1830s, when the whaling port of Jamesport was created by James Tuthill. The grid he designed, which runs north from the shore of the Peconic Bay up to 4th Street still exists today and encompasses the Historic District.

“Where two grand bay front hotels once served vacationers in the 1880s, there are now newer homes and a town park,” says Wines. “And along South Jamesport Avenue are three of the oldest homes here.” Two hundred years ago, the standard plot size in Tuthill’s grid was 50′ x 100′. Some early homeowners bought a second, third or fourth plot to create ample back and side yards that give their homes more space, grass and trees.

When whaling died out, the one-whaling ship town was revitalized as a tourist destination, many traveling to Jamesport on the then-new Long Island Rail Road, which connected public transportation on eastern Long Island to the city when it launched here in 1834. The city dwellers mainly came from Brooklyn, stepping out to a station on the tracks in Jamesport that no longer exists, so charmed by the quaint town that they chose to build second homes here.

The tour includes some of the houses built in the new port from the 1830s, as well as those built later in the 19th century, as well as more recent residences that range in style from Victorian gothic to Greek revival and mid-century modern.

Wines notes that, along with raising funds to support the Jamesport Meeting House, the purpose of the tour is “to celebrate Jamesport and what a wonderful place it is.”

This is our Circle-

There’s also a former Methodist campground, accessed by walking down a narrow dirty path surrounded by trees and shrubs. The road leads to seven homes encircling a grassy, oak tree-dotted area where religious meetings were held in the early 19th century.

“I wanted to preserve its history so I did a lot of the work myself,” says Al Stromberg, who owns one of the 1897 homes. “It’s exactly the way it looked then, only the windows are new. There’s no wasted space here.” Upstairs are two small bedrooms, both with slanted pitched roof ceilings, common in many homes of the era.

There are 12 cottages on the circle not seven.

[Volkonski]

Home Tour today. Many people wandering around the Circle.

Mrs.V and her DC cousin don't need to visit the Circle cottages on the tour. They are owned by other cousins so Mrs.V and DC cousin have been inside those cottages since before they were born.

[Volkonski]

View from the porch.

Most of the folks taking the Home Tour come in pairs.

Some are male-female but most are two women.

Most are older adults.

[johnpcapitalist]

Home Tour today. Many people wandering around the Circle.

You have to look on the bright side. At least the things of people talking the housing tours didn't come in on lawn movers.

[Volkonski]

Home Tour today. Many people wandering around the Circle.

You have to look on the bright side. At least the things of people talking the housing tours didn't come in on lawn movers.

True. But the lawnmowers were out in force anyway.

[Volkonski]

Quiet evening.

Fireworks in the distance to the south. Might be the San Gennero Festival on the South Fork or the Fire Department Carnival. I forget which FD this week.

[bill_g]

I'm still fascinated with the concept of a bucolic semi-rural community so close to The Big Apple. I thought for sure LI was paved end to end never thinking there were small towns and people not living in 20 story buildings. Oak trees and cedars are the only skyscrapers around. I can imagine why you live there.

[Volkonski]

We are 100 miles from NYC.

Local, county and state governments have programs in place to protect farm land from being developed.

North Fork wines are really good which makes that farmland expensive.

[Volkonski]

Oldies station reporting that a truck carrying a half a million frozen shrimp has been stolen in New Jersey.

Oldies DJ practically begging listeners to send in requests. On this very pleasant Saturday evening not many of us are listening.

[bill_g]

We are 100 miles from NYC.

Local, county and state governments have programs in place to protect farm land from being developed.

North Fork wines are really good which makes that farmland expensive.

:brainsplodes:

In those relative terms, depending on traffic that could be an hour and a half, or half a day. My trips to Tillamook this week are two hours each direction, but only 70 miles-ish. It's an entirely different life there.

[Volkonski]

Traffic on Long Island Expressway New York, New York State



As you can tell from the cars this was a while ago. It is worse now.