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Posted on 09/14/2005 4:43:35 AM PDT by Aquamarine
Edited on 09/14/2005 8:53:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
That message bears repeating!
Thanks for your daily dedication to bringing us such good news.
I know, just found one. Forgot to update the links to this weeks threads, am working with the moderator now to get it straightened out.
Yes it does. Your welcome Aqua.
Oh Man! Praying for a just outcome.
Keep up the Good Fight.............BUMP
Praying that you are successful in your complaint and lawsuit.
DO NOT CONCEDE. CONTINUE FIGHTING THE CORRUPTION.
Is there a link that we can use to contact the New York State Board of Elections? We should all demand an investigation into these violations.
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Through these portals lies one of the most remarkable of America's cities.
St. Augustine, Florida--the oldest continuously-occupied European settlement in the continental United States. Both the fort (Castillo de San Marcos) and the city gate are made of coquina, a unique sedimentary rock composed mainly of shells. These constructions, as well as houses and other buildings in the old town, have stood for over three hundred years. They were built by the Spanish in 1565, more than fifty years after Ponce de Leon discovered the area in his search for the Fountain of Youth.
Castillo de San Marcos is a square fort with diamond-shaped bastions at the corners. For many years it was the northernmost point in the Spanish holdings in the New World. It served as part of Spain's defenses along the route of her ships taking treasure from her colonies back to Spain. For the most part, the Spanish kept the moat dry and during sieges used it as a pen for domestic animals. Or if the fort was attacked by land, the moat could be quickly filled by opening flood gates and allowing in sea water from Matanzas Inlet.
The city gates stood outside the fort at the entrance to the town that was built nearby. Historians say that St. Augustine is perhaps the earliest example of community planning within the continental United States. Its streets are laid out in a pleasing grid, it has a large central plaza, and there are open spaces, patios, and gardens among all the houses.
The city and the fort were occupied by the Spanish for 235 years, after which it was given to Great Britain in exchange for La Habana, Cuba, in the Peace of Paris in 1763. At the end of the American Revolution , Florida was returned to Spain, only to be ceded back to the U.S. in 1821.
SIMON SAYS:
Simon says for a long lasting memorable live history lesson put on your walking shoes. Saunter down streets overflowing with heritage and filled with cultural marvels. Visit the oldest house at the corner of Charlotte and St. Francis Street and find out why there are no entry doors on Spanish houses on the street side. Do not pass Go, do not collect 200 dollars - but go directly to jail. While touring the old jail taste the delicious wares offered, without a file baked inside. If the feast at the jail was not enough pluck a pickle from the huge crock at the oldest store museum. Original stock items still line the shelves at the store which is complete with an ornate wood stove. Browse through what was once the world's largest swimming pool and choose a special antique.
Watch the schoolmaster as he teaches his students in a one room building. At this point if those oh-so-comfortable walking shoes have lost a little of the cushion, head for the Fountain of Youth.
St. Augustine offers a variety of transportation modes besides the feet. A carriage stand is located along the bayfront. Ride in a horse drawn carriage for a narrated 2 1/2 mile tour. An impressive narrated trolley tour starts at the visitor center. It travels through town at designated stops and pick-up points. You can get on and off at your own pace. One can opt to ride the trolley for the complete cycle and check out particular sites and discharge on the second trip. While on the trolley tour you will visit the "Senator," and travel down a street which National Geographic stated as one of the most beautiful streets in America. Limbs are interlocked and form a canopy over the roadway.
Set your compass toward Flagler College and wonder how it would be to stay in immense building without air-conditioning. Henry Flagler's many landmarks are scattered through the city. Hotels built for the wealthy, hotels built for the not so wealthy and churches built for loved one's. Cross over to King Street and meander through Zorayda Castle. On George Street visit the restored Spanish Quarter Museum and watch the recreation of daily lifestyles of the Spanish soldiers and settlers of the 18th. century.
Simon says take two careful steps backwards when you come face to face with Gomek. And take 219 steps to the top of the Lighthouse Museum. Beware of mirrors at Ripley's Believe It or Not. One never knows what or who is lurking behind that mirror. Is that really Elvis standing next to Henry the eighth? It must be Potter's Wax Museum.
So many choices make the decision "Where do we eat?" extremely difficult. Fast food, seafood, steakhouses, vegetarian, ethnic cuisine, natural foods, coffee houses, delis, bakeries, bar-b-que, pastry shops, and Mom and Pop's buffet are a few of the offerings. A unique restaurant is on the pier where one can watch the dolphins come for their evening meal which is fed to them through the trap door in the floor. Try the Florida Cracker Cafe for coconut fried shrimp and key lime pie. Acoustic guitar played Friday - Sunday at 5:00 pm.
Simon says visit this enchanting, educational, historical and exciting place in suspended time.
LadyX says:
There are indeed many neat places to eat!
There is an upscale, beautiful restaurant, complete with bakery as you exit to tempt you to indulge.
LOTS of small restaurants in genuine old houses, a chalkboard outside with the 'Fare of The Day' offerings...at most, any wait is well worth it in terms of variety and good food at reasonable prices.
The atmosphere takes you right back into the history of the town!
Across from St. Augustine are separate bridges to a South Beach and a North Beach, with places to stay and get the best of both kinds of vacation!
Walk yourself silly in the center of Old St. Augustine - "shop until you drop," - visit great museums - and then cross over to a beach relax and get away time..:))
[Disclaimer #2 - I do not have any affiiiation with the Florida or St. Augustine Chambers of Commerce - LOL
I am just a Florida born, Florida loving daughter.]
I am trying to find a complaint line..
The erie county boe's website is dead and stuck at the 2004 elections.
http://www.erie.gov/elections/
This is the erie county site
http://www.erie.gov/index.html
I just went to the state one and am trying to find a contact point.
http://www.elections.state.ny.us
I am going to have to run out and meet Lenny.
I will get on line when I can, we need to blow the lid off this thing.
That's perfect. Thank You!
We took my husband along in 1997, visited my son in West Palm Beach, included as well Orlando, where my grandmother lived (and father as a child) and where she and my parents are buried.
From there on our way back we headed for Daytona Beach; to the absolutely beautiful Bulow Creek State Park (where John James Audoban spent 2 years sketching along its savannahs); and then to St. Augustine to stay.
The morning we left, there was the obligatory restocking at the French Bakery, and Bernie and I went all the way through The Fort.
Anne was not feeling well, and stayed in the car while we moseyed.
Things got horrifying from that point on.
She laid down on the back seat, and we hurried from then on, flying up I-95 as best we could.
Her temperature elevated rapidly and she was throwing up in a large paper cup, and at Savannah, we stopped at a Holiday Inn so we could use the (clean) rest rooms.
She could barely walk with my assistance, and we tried to get her to let us take her to the ER there, but she insisted she wanted to go on toward home.
That seemed the best thing to do, a hospitalization there making her distant from our home, and those of her children in South Catrolina - hard to be with and help her so far away.
We then sped toward Barnwell, asking in every town on the way if we needed to stop at their Emergency Room, but she declined. Reaching Barnwell in the early evenng, finally, we went straight to the hospital here and she was seen and assessed, and a gastroenterology consultant called in.
I was informed she had a VERY serious gall bladder infection, possibly stemming from cancer. I called her daughter in Sumter, who conferred with her siblings, and we all agreed she should be transported to Sumter (the hospital here is limited).
Jessie, a Psychologist, lives in a section where most of the physicians and dentists reside, and is not far from the hospital.
There was a wait here for an ambulance, with the ones available already out on long calls - one was sent from Columbia to haul her screaming through every town on the way.
The outcome was treating the infection - cancer ruled out - and surgery and eventual recovery, with me going to stay with her at her lake house for a while when she was finally released.
The Old City is phenomenal, Aqua!
(can you get a friend of M to dogsit?!)
You'll need more than one day there, preferably in October or early November when it's cool and not as crowded.
Daiser Dog suffers from an acute fear of being abandoned (again) every time we even think about going somewhere. If we leave her in a kennel it's hard to enjoy ourselves knowing that she's on another one of her hunger strikes and shaking in a corner. She is the most sensitive animal I've ever seen.
it is so distressing a situation.
Dredges up memories of the Presidential Election of 2000 that dragged on and on with all of us in suspense....hard to adjust your and Jul's life around this wrinkle.
We of course pray for it to be righted, and the true results known.
Could your Mom stay with Daiser Dawg??
Yes it is, I am updating my website with the current numbers and asking people to call the BOE and demand they release the final numbers.
Hang in there, Mayor..
That's a possibility now that her sister has gone home to Port Orange after a three month visit. But she lives over an hour away and isn't in the best of shape.
I am Meg, I just want the final numbers.
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