Day: October 6, 2014

Sputnik Day 2014: Mohawk Valley Days

by chasdarwin
Oriskany
Oriskany

We got up in Rome NY, and went over to historic Ft. Stanwix, where we were absorbed in history,

Fort Stanwix - exterior
Fort Stanwix – exterior
inside Ft. Stanwix
inside Ft. Stanwix

We then traveled over to the Oriskany battlefield.

battlefield
battlefield

We had a very nice, scenic drive through theCatskills to our best western in Colbolskill NY, where we turned on the TV to see the end of the greatest road comeback in NFL history.

(N.B.: on Oct 5, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the space age by placing the first artificial earth satellite in orbit.)