Ice Cream Sunday

 What fun, ice cream in the afternoon.

Phoenicia: Movie-Worthy Mountain Getaway

 Story in Upstater.com on July 19, 2021.

When he wasn’t slugging homers, Babe Ruth could be found at the Sportsman’s Bar on Main Street, slugging beers. Alcohol also brought the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz to Phoenicia, where he lived and set up stills during Prohibition. Legend has it that shortly before being gunned down in Newark by rival gangsters, Schultz buried millions of dollars in a safe by the Phoenicia railroad tracks. Or under two pine trees. Or under a skull shaped rock by the banks of the Esopus. Ok, look, there’s a lot of legends floating around about where exactly Schultz buried his loot, probably none of which are true. But that hasn’t stopped treasure hunters from continuing to show up in the Phoenicia Library on Main Street to comb through old maps, looking for clues.

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Robert Burke Warren in concert at CPOA

 

Brandin, our 4 year old grandson, loved it, too. Great evening.

Ach, that bridge!

late afternoon, 8 July 2021, after yet more rain:

Later, same afternoon:

Will it ever stop raining?

 In between rainstorms, 7 July, at Shandaken Democratic caucus, Lexington (Route 42, off Route 28)

Summertime swimming

 1 July 2021

Getting swimming hole ready

 24 June 2021

Is Dutch Schultz’s Treasure Chest buried in Phoenicia?

 A story from the renowned Yonkers Times discusses Dutch Schultz, famed beer meister and smuggler, and his missing treasure chest. No one really knows where he buried a 2 foot by 3 foot treasure chest filled with gold, diamonds, cash and bonds as a getaway bundle of funds if he had to leave town at a moments notice. That value of the chest and it contents is now estimated between $50 Million-$150 Million. Dutch was gunned down in 1933. Thus, no one really knows where the loot is.

The long held tale was that Schultz buried the chest in the Catskills, in Phoenicia NY, a town that he spent time with. The PBS documentary mentions Phoenicia and a house in Bronxville NY, on the campus of Concordia College, as two other possible locations. 

 Tantalizing.