The Family Farm

As I often do when traveling through and near Philadelphia, NY, I decided to check in on the dairy farm, formerly owned and operated by my Grandparents, Beatrice and Merrill Tryon. They had moved away many years ago and as the years passed since that time, the once-loved and meticulously maintained farm gradually declined. Each trip I make past the farm floods me with wonderful memories and simultaneously breaks my heart to see what now remains. This particular visit was especially painful.

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North Country Attractions (8 images)

There is just something quite wonderful about Upstate New York. And this is definitively not the region just north of NYC that is referenced as “Upstate” by countless geographically-challenged city dwellers. This is the Upstate that is actually Upstate; North of the NYS Thruway, filled with farms, fields, open sky, trees, streams and rivers, countless country roads, and dotted with small towns.

The Talent Pool (2 images)

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Chris' Diner (5 images)

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Plenty Of Clearance, But No Tolerance (2 images)

Mosquito Falls (2 images)

The Lyons Roar (2 images)

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