PEEPERS!: Let’s call it a tie: Mike Blair heard his first
peepers in Custer City while letting his dogs out at 7:50 p.m.
Wedneday. And, in an e-mail marked 8:03 p.m., Chip Swanson writes,
“Spring is here. … just heard the peepers for the first time this
year in Wilcox!”
U.S. GRANT: Larry R. Fay writes, “Since trout season is just
around the corner, I thought your readers (who don’t read Outdoor
Life) might be surprised to learn that Ulysses S. Grant used to fly
fish for trout in Potter and McKean Counties.”
“He once turned himself in to a magistrate in McKean County when
he realized he had been fishing out of season. He paid his fine
even though the magistrate didn’t want to fine the former
president.
“He fished Oswayo Creek in Potter County and headquartered in
Kane. Perhaps one of your readers knows which streams he fished in
McKean County.”
WESB NOTE: Mary Foster Smith of Lewis Run called in reference to
our item about old programs and personalities on radio station
WESB. In the 1960s, she hosted a program called “What’s
Cooking?”
While she did offer recipes, the program was actually an
interview show with on-air guests telling listeners about the
goings-on around Bradford. Mary tells us she didn’t use a radio
name. When your name is Mary Smith, who’d believe it anyway?
TRY THIS: An anonymous birder phoned with a tip on how to keep
your robins happy until worms abound: peanut butter. Just put it
out by or on your feeder and watch it disappear.
MORE COPS: Rose Hager of Gifford adds to our growing list of
former city policemen: “My late husband Wally Bond served on the
police department from 1955-1961. Some of the ones I remember are
Leo Michaels, Leith Dennis, Ted Greenberg, Ren Florentine, Joe
Wichensky, John Roberts, Bernie Backer, Pat Ray, Dick Miller, Derny
Palazetti, Paul Fairbanks. Also, let’s remember Nick Palazetti who
served many years as a ‘special police’ on many occasions.”
BLOOMERS: Eleanor Hand, who is now a guest at Sena-Kean Manor in
Smethport, phoned about a week ago to tell us her son had gone to
her former residence in Eldred and dug a bowl of crocus and tulip
bulbs. “I wish they’d blossom,” she told us. Maybe by now they’re
in full bloom. Eleanor had called us the day we had a front-page
picture of crocuses.
