Updated: 11/22/09 7:25 AM
NEW YORK — Ominous gray skies greeted us as we stepped off the ferry at Liberty Island. My husband, stepdaughter and I walked up the dock and got our first up-close glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. She towered before us, magnificent in weathered blue-green copper.
Updated: 11/22/09 7:25 AM
They were my personal teen Rites of Spring. It took me years to understand the significance of both.
Updated: 11/22/09 7:25 AM
It’s a wrap
Updated: 11/21/09 1:36 PM
These days are busy ones for turkey farmer Thomas Britt, whose 34-acre Gasport farm is
home to 1,200 turkeys. Britt, 45, works hard to make a living for his family — both on
his farm and as a machine repairman at General Motors in Lockport. Growing up on a cattle
farm, Britt appreciates the outdoors and believes strongly in the American agrarian tradition
he lives to preserve.
