Saturday, May 17, 2025
I drove north from Clark's Summit, PA into New York. Beautiful drive. Millard Fillmore was born in Moravia, in the finger lakes region of New York. I called Fillmore Glen State Park several weeks ago for information on his birthplace, and they almost did not know what I was talking about. "Oh, yeah, there is a replica log cabin here." Same thing when I got to the entrance of the park. This is a beautiful little state park, but the main events are camping, picnicking, hiking, and when the swimming hole is repaired, swimming. But there, on the edge of the meadow, is one of the nicer replica log cabins.
You can actually go into this one. Glass separates the tourist from a collection of furnishings. It gave me a pretty good picture of life at that time.
The information sign on Fillmore's life says he was born in 1800, lawyer, state assembly, congress, NY state comptroller and by age 49 was Vice President. A year later, he became president in 1850 with the death of Zachary Taylor. He signed the Compromise of 1850, which only bought some time with the slavery question. After the presidency, he moved to Buffalo and was active in local affairs. He died in 1874.
From Fillmore Glen Stat Park, I drove over to Watkins Glen to a bike trail I had read about. Rails-to-Trails. Rather rustic, but firm surface. Finally saw an ice cream shop at the same time I wanted an ice cream! I couldn't remember why I had heard of Watkins Glen, so I googled it. OK, duh, auto racing. On this Saturday, it was full of tourists. Corvette show, and the state park, right in town, had the place crawling with tourists.
Long drive to Buffalo / Niagara Falls. Weather was iffy all the way.
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