In the Hanford family home, built in 1909, there are some original furnishings and other restorations to the year 1920.  (Since our house dates from the 1840s, it felt awfully modern to us!)

This was the daughter's room.  Note the wallpaper.

I had wanted to see a lumberjack competition this summer, and we found their webpage while googling.  When we got there, we found that a lumberjack show is quite a different thing from what we expected.

There was log-rolling, but the log, which could spin, was tethered and was covered with astroturf.

We drove around this part of the state for an hour or two after leaving.  We were fascinated by the red soil and it doesn't appear the hills were as scoured by glaciers as in our area.  It's craggier, and the rocks are much larger.   The Hanford Mills Museum website describes this area as the northern Catskills.

We ended up at dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Oneonta.

The wonton soup is excellent.

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