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Summer’s Bounty in the Finger Lakes

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:July 7, 2020
Post category:Gorham, NY / Penn Yan, NY / Uncategorized

Our summer here in the Finger Lakes region of New York State has turned hot and very dry. Only a few occasional showers have brought us just a little relief…

“On the Seventh Day He Rested”

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:June 29, 2014
Post category:Gorham, NY
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It was Sunday morning and we just finished the last quart of strawberries that I had purchased earlier in the week at one of the Old Order Mennonite farms that…

Preparations for the First Winter Storm in the Finger Lakes

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:November 10, 2013
Post category:Gorham, NY
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I had a pretty good week last week as I finished planting all of my daffodils. I even felt so good that I ordered a couple of yards of mulch…

In the Good Old Summertime

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:August 15, 2013
Post category:Gorham, NY / Hammondsport, NY
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The song “In the Good Old Summertime” was written by Ren Shields and set to music by George Evans in 1902 (click here). It was later made into a musical…

It’s Planting Time in the Finger Lakes

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:May 18, 2012
Post category:Gorham, NY
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The skies have cleared here in the Finger Lakes and the work of preparing the fields for planting corn has just gotten underway. Back in the fifties when I was…

A Winter Walk in the Woods

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:January 29, 2012
Post category:Gorham, NY
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Just a few days ago my neighbor and I took a walk up the hill onto some property that belongs to the developer of our sub-division. It was one of…

A Porch is an Image of Those Who Live Inside

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:August 4, 2011
Post category:Gorham, NY
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Besides all of the old formal porches on Gibson Street in Canandaigua, I love to look at the porches of the old order Mennonites who live in the Gorham and…

Life as a Nomad in the Finger Lakes

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:July 5, 2011
Post category:Gorham, NY
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I am sure that I am not the only person who on occasion becomes disgusted with life’s daily grind and just wants to get away from it all and roam…

How Did You Do That?

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:June 14, 2011
Post category:Gorham, NY
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Several weeks ago I was showing a good friend one of my new posts on FLL360.com (click here). If you click on the title of the post, you are taken…

Hay Making Time in the Finger Lakes

Post author:James Bupp, Ph.D.
Post published:June 7, 2011
Post category:Gorham, NY
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The first cutting of hay is usually made around the first of June in the Finger Lakes. When I was growing up, public schools were always finished by the middle…

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Author James Bupp

This is a story about change. It’s a story about a boy who was born into the Agricultural Society of the United States but early on in his life, he realized that the world that he was living in was rapidly disappearing and that he must seek his fortunes elsewhere. It is a story of adventure, of survival, and of adaption to this new world.

Author James Bupp

THE LAST of the FAMILY FARMS recalls what it was like to have grown up on a family farm some fifty years ago and how the learning experiences of today’s youth differ so sharply from the learning experiences of a child growing up a half century ago. On the family farm, early learning experiences came from family members and from Sunday and public school teachers. The food which sustained our lives came from the animals and vegetables that were raised on the farm. Work was an integral part of living on a family farm. One didn’t “go to work” or “go home”; they were one in the same. There was a unique partnership between farm families and the Almighty Himself as each depended upon the other to grow the crops and raise the animals. And so a strong belief in God was established very early in a child growing up on a family farm.

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