Final Batch of Photos: Upstate Summer 2006
Here they are. The entire set is 149 photos, which is still a subset of all of the photos I took that weekend (227) but I probably could have filtered them a bit more, even still. However, I'm including some that I wanted in order to remember certain situations or places with emotional associations.
Today I was poking around looking for information on Kendall, New York for one of my descriptions of a photo and I found the Wikipedia page for Kendall again--I'd seen it a while ago but hadn't looked at it for some time: here it is. The demographic information there is about six years old, but I don't think it has changed that much; the population certainly hasn't grown dramatically, and I'd be willing to bet you dimes to a dollar the racial make-up hasn't changed one lick (97.04% white). Let's see how my math is: if the population is about 3000, and we have .6% roughly black population, then that means there are about 18 black people in town. Sounds about right based on how many black kids I knew growing up.
I'd be interested to know more about the religious constituencies in the town; it was a surprise to me when I realized that my Italian family was buried in the cemetery in Holley because that was where the Catholic church was. I always knew that was where my grandmother went to church when she lived there, but I'm dense enough that I didn't put two and two together and think about the fact that the town was mostly Protestant--in the center of town there is a Lutheran church and a Methodist church, and while there is a one Catholic church in town it is pretty new--I don't think my Italian family went there when my father was growing up.
Kendall Links
Just what you were waiting for, I know! Here is the link to the school district web site where I went to high school. Superintendent O'Laughlin was the principal of the junior/senior high-school (yes, it was all of one, and still small: my class had 60 graduating seniors if I recall correctly) when I was there. Here is the link to the town web site. Here is the link to the Kendall Volunteer Firefighters site. That's got some good stuff on it. Watch out for the sound on that history page though.
As soon as I learn a bit about Final Cut Pro I'll edit together the footage I took of the area from that weekend (August 10th to the 13th, for the record). I've got some good stuff of my dad with the riding mower and a lot of driving around having conversations with my folks. Excruciatingly exciting stuff, I guarantee you.
