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09-May-2023 Dave

15 Good Things Come in Small Packages

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Canon Image Challenge13-May-2023 02:01
I never visited Chittenango. I also avoided Wampsville. I did venture to Norwich a couple of times.

Colgate had a very good philosophy department when I was there. I even liked their building.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge12-May-2023 13:17
Lots of coincidences indeed. Ask your niece whether she's taken any philosophy classes at Hobart and William Smith. I still know one or two members of the department there. And one of our recent Ph.D graduates from Boulder recently joined the philosophy department at Colgate. And a Colgate alum was in graduate school with me at Syracuse, and has been teaching at Hamilton College (as you say, confusingly not in Hamilton) for many years. Small world.
Did you ever visit Chittenango? If you did, did you go to the Oz Cream Parlor or Auntie Em's Pantry? They really lean into the L. Frank Baum connection there.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge12-May-2023 02:49
Plenty of coincidences, Alastair. You were at SU at the same time as my brother. His ex-wife is a PhD, from Rochester's Eastman School of Music. And their daughter attends Hobart and William Smith.

Yes, I went to college in Hamilton (which, confusingly for some, is not Hamilton College) in the Valley of Chenango and drove past Cazenovia College (and SUNY Morrisville) many times.

My caps are more obscure than goofy, Paul, and there are several that might be met with extreme prejudice by your lieutenant.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge11-May-2023 18:34
I remember a time when I was in the Army National Guard riding in the back of a Duce and a half truck with the other soldiers in our squad going to Ft Leavenworth, Ks for training. I decided to stand up and peek out the front gap between the cab and the canvas cover to see where we were and no sooner did I stick my head out whoosh….there went my cap. I recall getting yelled at by the lieutenant for being out of uniform when we arrived. He was not very understanding of the circumstances surrounding it’s loss. They were goofy caps anyway. Paul
Canon Image Challenge11-May-2023 17:34
I lived in Syracuse from 1984 to 1992. I graduated in 1990, but we stayed for a couple of years while my wife was doing coursework for her Ph.D and I was teaching at a small liberal arts college (Hobart and William Smith) in Geneva (the other Geneva) on the shore of Lake Seneca. You went to college about 45 miles southeast of Syracuse Dave? Was that in Hamilton? There's also Cazenovia college, but that's a bit closer. It's close to Chittenango, where L., Frank Baum, of Oz fame, was born.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge11-May-2023 02:48
You'd be surprised at the price, Alastair. The car is a Fiat and has a 1.4L turborcharged engine. It was actually built by Mazda and shares a lot of parts with the Miata. Unfortunately, employee discount pricing won't help, as 2020 was the final year of production. When did you study in Syracuse? My brother received his social work master's degree there in the early 1990s. I went to college about 45 miles southeast of Syracuse in the early 1980s. I don't remember meeting anyone named Norcross there. No Gatsby driving cap, Paul, Just a baseball cap that I hope doesn't blow off.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge10-May-2023 22:50
I might be related. Who knows? I did 23 and me a bit over a year ago, and discovered all kinds of distant relatives in the US. A couple of hundred years ago, one Norcross brother emigrated to the US, and the other stayed in England. I think the US one was rather more successful, both reproductively and economically. There’s even a suburb of Atlanta named ‘Norcross’, and there used to be a Norcross greeting card company. Sadly, none of that money has made its way to me. When I was growing up in London, there were only three Norcrosses in the whole London phone book (which was actually four books), and two of them were my father and my uncle. When I went to grad school in Syracuse, a city of around a quarter million (about one fortieth the population of London) there were ten Norcrosses in the phone book!
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge10-May-2023 21:59
Should be a little more affordable with his employee purchase discount program pricing.
Maybe Dave can sign you up as his long lost Uncle Al and get you a deal? Paul
Canon Image Challenge10-May-2023 20:53
Very fancy. I think I know one thing that's not small about this--the price!
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge10-May-2023 12:09
Hitting the open road, top down, petal to the metal, wearing your twill Gatsby driving cap and smiling ear to ear. Wishing I was riding shotgun with you. 😀 Paul