July 30, 2013

Photobomb of Another Sort

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Here is an example of a Photobomb of Another Sort. (See "Noun or Verb" below.) This shot of me, my daughter and sister was taken outside The Chapter House in Collegetown, Ithaca, New York.

When we went to take the photo, these two guys jumped in. I/we  have absolutely no idea who they are.
                                                

July 29, 2013

Here's the Scoop

 
I'll take a quadruple scoop of this one, this one, that one and that one. Waffle cone and rainbow sprinkles, pretty please.


July 24, 2013

Noun or Verb?



The word for when someone gets in the shot and
completely ruins the photo? 

Photobomb.

(Yup.)

July 22, 2013

POUND RIDGE PAST @ Scotts Corners Market


. . . We are thrilled to announce that signed copies of Pound Ridge Past (a big stack of them!) are now available at Scotts Corner Market (Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, N.Y.)

Check it out (when you go to check out your other stuff.)

July 18, 2013

ANYHOO ... here's my new Huffington Post


Anyhoo ... to get in the loop of this revival word trend, please click here.


POUND RIDGE PAST: "Anna Scheid Gossett: The Hiram Halle Era"

     In POUND RIDGE PAST: Remembrances of Our Townsfolk, Anna Scheid Gossett recalls growing up in the 1930s and her father's affiliation with Hiram Halle, an impresario, industrialist, entrepreneur and visionary whose remodeling and restoration of houses greatly impacted both the look of the town and the lives of many townsfolk hard hit during the Depression.
     "Mr. Halle purchased and remodeled The Inn at Pound Ridge for his good friend, Emily Shaw. He added on the wing where the kitchen is, and rented it to Emily as an inn. ... We felt attached to that place. There was a bar downstairs made from an oak tree that was perfectly straight, which came from our woods. We were very proud of that."



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POUND RIDGE PAST -- now in its second printing -- is available on Amazon.com, Booksy Galore, Scotts Corner Market, The Pound Ridge Museum and The Kitchen Table.

To order personally signed copies, please go here

July 15, 2013

Bonni's Perfect Antidote for Beating the Heat


Here is my sure fire way to beat the heat. (Turn up the volume.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE

Classic Christmas song by Dean Martin with christmas pics.
BY FRANK SINATRA|YOUTUBE.COM

Hawaii: The Island of Many Syllables


My daughter just called from Hawaii to give us her new address. You know she lives out west when the house numbers are 6-digits long.

And you know she's in Hawaii when you can't even pronounce the town she lives in. "Aiea."

July 12, 2013

A Favorite Family Recipe: Peach Küchen à là Betty (My Mom)

Photo: Bonni Brodnick
We all have foods that remind us of childhood. For me it's S'mores, Charles Chips Potato Chips, Tab with lemon, Schrafft's Shrimp Dip ... and actually anything that we could dip those chips into. But it's the summery scent of this special peach küchen recipe that is one of my fondest July and August memories.

Peach küchen combines peaches and custard with a scrumptious shortbread crust. The cozy summer morning aroma of Mom baking -- before the heat of the day set in -- would waft up the winding staircase in our house, gently blending a touch of cinnamon and summer fruit with the fragrance of flowers in full bloom.

Transport yourself back to those lazy summer days with this tasty dessert ... "The Kogen Girls Peachy Delight."

2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup margarine
12 peach halves (blanched and peeled)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 egg yokes
1 cup sour cream

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and 2 tablespoons sugar; cut margarine in until coarse. Pat mixture firmly on bottom and up sides of 8-inch or 9-inch square pan. Arrange peaches; sprinkle with cinnamon and remaining sugar. Bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees. 

Remove from oven and pour egg/sour cream mixture over top. Return to oven for 30-additional minutes.

Serve with vanilla ice cream.

This summer dessert is elegant, easy to make and simply delicious.

July 11, 2013

TWvSTEE TREAT

                                                                                                                     
Photo: Bonni Brodnick

Summer delight in Levittown, PA.

July 8, 2013

Hot Diggitty Dog!


design solutions on Elm Street is the exclusive seller of
POUND RIDGE PAST
in New Canaan, Conn. They just ordered a new shipment of books ... look no further! 

Note: design solutions is also one of the only places I know that sells uber-cool washable hot dog trays for fine summer dining! (See above above.)


July 5, 2013

Pound Ridge in July

Photo: Bonni Brodnick

Another Pound Ridge summer is a winter’s dream come true. 

July 4, 2013

July 4th commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence

Fireworks at Pound Ridge Town Park  (Photo: Bonni Brodnick)

 *H a p p y   4 t h   f   J u l y ! *

July 2, 2013

In THE NEW YORK TIMES: "Melva Noakes: The bombing of America's Kids day-care center in Oklahoma City"


To all of those who gave their time, compassion and support to the Oklahoma City Children's Memorial Garden project that runs along the playground at the Pound Ridge Community Church playschool, wanted to let you know that I heard from Melva Noakes, the founder-director of the America's Kids day-care center where 19 innocent babies perished one April morning.

Melva is writing a book and I promise to keep you in the loop when she comes to New York.


Pound Ridge Sculpture Honors Oklahoma Dead

By CYNTHIA MAGRIEL WETZLER
Published: April 27, 1997

IF rocks could speak, the white alabaster in ''Unfinished Lives'' by the Pound Ridge sculptor Miles Slater might be saying to the dark granite that it enfolds: ''It's O.K. Let go of the pain.'' The sculpture was the focus of a commemorative ceremony at the Pound Ridge Town House last Saturday to remember the children who perished in the Oklahoma City bombing exactly two years before -- on April 19, 1995.

Melva Noakes, founder-director of the America's Kids day-care center in the Federal Building, flew here to attend the ceremony. Mr. Slater's ''Unfinished Lives'' seemed to mesmerize those who studied the hunk of granite in the sculpture, a piece of rubble from the razed building.

It all happened the way things sometimes do -- with synchronicity. Pound Ridge resident, Bonni Kogen Brodnick had kept the granite in her house for two years and never felt comfortable with it. It had been brought to Pound Ridge in June 1995 by Ms. Noakes to dedicate the Oklahoma City children's memorial garden, which runs along the playground of the play school at the Pound Ridge Community Church and is now blooming with daffodils. But Ms. Kogen Brodnick, who came up with the idea for the garden and enlisted a group of Pound Ridge mothers to help her plant it, said, ''The rock had energies that were reminiscent of an evil event.''  . . .

>> To read full article, go to
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/27/nyregion/pound-ridge-sculpture-honors-oklahoma-dead.html




Mon Jardin


"My garden is looking particularly lush at the moment," she whispered, hoping the deer wouldn't hear.


July 1, 2013

POUND RIDGE PAST: "Barrels of Oil & Blocks of Ice"
































"In the summertime, we went to the Breuningers' on West Lane to go swimming in the pond alongside the house. And on summer evenings, our family went fishing together. With our red cork on the fishing pole, and a can of worms, we'd go down to the big lake in back of the Marshall Oil office on Salem Road. If we were lucky, we caught a bass. We'd also catch sunnies, perch, and at dusk, catfish. Everybody would eat what we caught for dinner. ... When I was growing up in Pound Ridge in the 1930s, everybody knew everybody in town. If you wanted to visit somebody in the evening, you just went. On Sundays, friends would stop in. They'd come unannounced, but they were friends, and you thought nothing of it. It was a super way to grow up. It really was." ~  Excerpt from Bonni Brodnick’s book, POUND RIDGE PAST: Remembrances of Our Townsfolk: "Pat Marshall Bartram: "Barrels of Oil and Blocks of Ice"

Signed copies of POUND RIDGE PAST are available at design solutions in New Canaan, Conn. 
To order personally signed copies, go here.

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