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5/27/2007 - With holiday weekend here, let season begin
Whatever the calendar may say about the official first day of summer, by long tradition Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of the long stretch that makes winter snow and sleet tolerable.
We note this year once again that Americans are faced with record-setting gasoline prices just as the vacation season is here. And once again we declare with pride that no one living in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties has to break the bank to have as good a time as can be had anywhere. We can have it right here at home.
We who live here are often too caught up in daily living to appreciate fully the fact that the Chautauqua region is a premier vacation destination for people around the country. But we need only to lift our attention away from daily chores to drink in our beautiful surroundings and peruse a full calendar of summer events to realize why people flock here.
Tourists and we townies share common interests in many of the events — Chautauqua Institution has an inviting, invigorating and thought-provoking lineup this summer, for example, and concerts, dancing and the Chautauqua County Fair, which takes place the last full week of July.
Other events are more down home things that we do for ourselves, although tourists certainly are welcome and are encouraged to come — farmers markets, a Victorian Dazzle celebration in Fredonia, the World War II re-enactment in Dunkirk as well as the Fourth of July festivities and the Gerry Rodeo, to name a few.
We also offer our visitors fine dining, top-notch entertainment, an amusement park, swimming, boating, world-class theater and opera and symphonies — as well as the quiet of country roads and hiking trails, the splendor of deep woods and open meadows, and museums and libraries and places to just sit and watch a sunset.
We have those things for ourselves, too.
How fortunate we are that we need go no further than our own back yard to have a whopping good time.
Whatever the calendar may say about the official first day of summer, by long tradition Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of the long stretch that makes winter snow and sleet tolerable.
We note this year once again that Americans are faced with record-setting gasoline prices just as the vacation season is here. And once again we declare with pride that no one living in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties has to break the bank to have as good a time as can be had anywhere. We can have it right here at home.
We who live here are often too caught up in daily living to appreciate fully the fact that the Chautauqua region is a premier vacation destination for people around the country. But we need only to lift our attention away from daily chores to drink in our beautiful surroundings and peruse a full calendar of summer events to realize why people flock here.
Tourists and we townies share common interests in many of the events — Chautauqua Institution has an inviting, invigorating and thought-provoking lineup this summer, for example, and concerts, dancing and the Chautauqua County Fair, which takes place the last full week of July.
Other events are more down home things that we do for ourselves, although tourists certainly are welcome and are encouraged to come — farmers markets, a Victorian Dazzle celebration in Fredonia, the World War II re-enactment in Dunkirk as well as the Fourth of July festivities and the Gerry Rodeo, to name a few.
We also offer our visitors fine dining, top-notch entertainment, an amusement park, swimming, boating, world-class theater and opera and symphonies — as well as the quiet of country roads and hiking trails, the splendor of deep woods and open meadows, and museums and libraries and places to just sit and watch a sunset.
We have those things for ourselves, too.
How fortunate we are that we need go no further than our own back yard to have a whopping good time.
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