Ok I decided to release the recipe for tomato sauce that has been passed onto me via Ellis Island when my family got on a boat. I am still working out the original ingredients from a little yellow piece of paper that I have kept forever… Coming Soon.

The Stamford Rotary Club BBQ

The Greater Stamford Area Chamber of Commerce announced that Brooks BBQ will be cooking up some great Q at the Stamford Rotary Club.

Pick up some Brooks House of BBQ chicken or ribs straight off the grill! The Stamford Rotary Club is sponsoring a mid-winter BBQ – follow your nose! Want to reserve your BBQ? See any Rotarian for tickets.

Awesome!

02-06-2012 Update:

After exploring my resources I have little doubt that something unusual was observed. You have to understand that this is a big hunting community, and anything out of the ordinary is very rare, and we are talking about people who are the salt of the earth, and have been hunting here for generations.

One interesting fact that came from a little poking around is that the area around Bovina and South Kortright experienced (before the BF phenomenon) in the early 70′s a number of sightings and odd indigenous animal killings, which did not fit the usual coyote, fox, etc patterns. For instance, the animals were found with no limbs and a whole carcass. Another looked like it was almost surgically disemboweled with its neck twisted 180 degrees.

Certainly fairly interesting stuff and the plausibility of this area supporting such an animal, is there.

02-13-2012 Update:

Ok after a lot more investigation and finally talking to the individual who actually sighted the Bigfoot I am totally convinced. It took a while and I had to gain the confidence and trust that I would not reveal his name or the exact location where the sighting occurred. It is understandable and I will always respect his privacy in this matter. The only thing that I will say it was not the first time and the closest encounter he has been.

On personal note as a person that lives in these hills, the facial expression said it all. Also I trust what people say up here and I have no doubt.

02-16-2012 Update:

Decided to do a little “Finding Bigfoot” on my own.  I hiked a few miles up the hill and decided to try a little tree knocking, by banging a big stick on a large old hollow tree.  After about 3 hrs just when I was ready to bobo out, I can tell you I started hearing LOUD knock backs.  I know every sound that comes out these woods, and that was very bizarre, and nobody is up there after hunting season. It sounded only about maybe a 1000ft away, and when I started moving towards the sound I heard big wooooooosh, cracking limbs, and almost a vibration in the ground. Kinda scared the piss out of me, and made my way home.  Now bears I see regularly and they keep to themselves and run off or really pay no nevermind to me being around. This incident prompted by my wife originally (likes to stack wood at night)  when she said  “I hear somebody banging a tree”, which I dismissed, until the recent encounter by a local here.

I will be taking the Mule out since there is no snow and do a little more poking around.

Update: 02-21-2012

I finally found the link to one of the earlier encounters.  During Presidents week we have a lot of yahoos out here so when things quite down next week I am going to camp out on top of the ridge for 2 days.

Delaware County, New York

Back in the late 1970s, my parents purchased an old farmhouse that was built in 1880 in a town called South Kortright, NY. The house sat on seven acres of a beautiful valley in the middle of the Catskill Mountains.

The farmhouse was in disrepair when they purchased it, but over the years they fixed it up into a very comfortable weekend and summer retreat from the urban bustle of the New York City area, where we lived. The trip took three and one-half to four hours every Friday night, but my sister and I didn’t mind it at all.

One night, after we arrived at approximately nine at night, my sister and I sat at the kitchen table eating sandwiches for dinner while my parents had cocktails in the front living room.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/delawarecountyNY.htm

 

No vacation area fills today’s need better than rural America… and tucked away in the Western Catskills is a priceless pocket of rural America called Colchester – with its historic hamlet of Downsville.

Colchester Chamber of Commerce

Here in the valley of the East Branch is America the way it used to be, beautiful in all seasons. Peaceful valleys and hidden hollows, rugged mountains, waving fields of corn-indeed a place for renewal. Wildlife is abundant, deer graze in meadows; wild turkeys are plentiful; beaver dam our streams, create fish ponds and challenge man with their skill and determination; quail flush from thickets; coyotes bark at dusk and the fox flaunts his plume as he darts across the road.Here nature is at its best in rural America, unspoiled and unpretentious, where people are friendly, life is simple and the warm hand of nature cups us in its embrace.

We are unashamedly rural-with all the charm, values, peace and serenity which frame the rural life. In the lush valleys and wooded mountains of the Western Catskills let nature work its own unique therapy.

All this for your enjoyment!

Catskill Coaching Center

We will be developing a new website for catskillcoachingcenter.com!

Catskills Events

The Delaware County Historical Association, in collaboration with the Cannon Free Library in Delhi, will show a series of local films focusing on our region’s rich history. Continuing through the spring of 2012 the two organizations will host audience members at the Cannon Library on Elm Street in Delhi.

The first film to be shown will be “The Destruction of Shavertown” by Bob and Alice Jacobson. The film offers a personal look at the destruction of Shavertown and other communities in the mid-1950s as the valley of the East Branch was readied to be inundated by the rising waters of the Pepacton Reservoir.