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Hello everybody! Today I am going to travel far beyond the area in which we all live, and head all the way to Upstate New York to Syracuse for the largest annual event in the state: The New York State Fair!  This is a 13 day showcase of agriculture, entertainment, education, and technology, and it also has midway rides, concessionaires, exhibits, and concerts. It also begins in August and lasts for 13 days before ending on Labor Day.  I was actually originally planning to write about it as soon as they had announced all the headliners this year, but after going back to last year and seeing that they finished announcing concerts in July, and the fact that I currently can’t think of anything else to write about, I decided to write about it now, talk about its history, its various features, who will be performing this year, and if I want to, I will share who has performed there in the past as well.  It was inaugurated all the way back in 1841 in Syracuse by the New York Stat...

Hello everybody! Seeing how the weather is (sort of) getting better and warmer, I feel it’s only natural that I talk about things to look forward to this summer! One thing that is a big part of the summer is outdoor summer concerts. Now, I’m sure that many things come to mind when someone says “outdoor summer concerts,” but I’m sure that almost all of you reading thought of the same place as soon as I started talking about this: Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York.  It is easily one of, if not the most famous outdoor amphitheater in the area, and it has so many different shows in one season. In fact, as I am currently writing this, they already have a very stacked lineup of shows from June to September, with even more shows to be announced.  In this blog post, I will be writing about all the shows that they have scheduled for this summer, in hopes that any or all of them sound intriguing to all of you reading. The first show they have on June 5 is some rock band called Tr...

Hello everyone! Let’s talk about some tourist attractions in Fairfield County in Connecticut today! As always, my point in writing about these places is that any or all of them are intriguing to all of you reading, enough that you will want to check them out. The first tourist attraction is The Arthur A Harris Linear Park in Brookfield, which is a multi-use trail along the Still River. The next tourist attraction is what used to be The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, but has since been turned into a place that I have talked about several times already, The Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater. The next tourist attraction is the Bowman Observatory in Greenwich, which features a telescope. The next tourist attraction is the Bridgeport Islanders, which is the American Hockey League affiliate of the New York Islanders, and plays at the Total Mortgage Arena. The next tourist attraction is The Bronson Windmill, which is a historic windmill in Fairfield. The next tourist attraction is Broo...

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I talked about upcoming shows in the area, so let’s change that today! To keep this easy for myself, I am only going to be focusing on venues in Westchester County and Fairfield County, as those are the ones closest to me, and as always, my purpose in writing this is that any or all of the shows that I mention sound intriguing to all of you reading, and you want to check them out. Let’s start off in Peekskill at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater! The first show they have coming up is on March 28, and it is Joan Osborne singing the songs of Bob Dylan. For those of you who don’t know who Joan Osborne is, she is the person who sings the song What If God Was One Of Us. The next show they have on April 9 is southern rock band The Outlaws, who are famous for the song Green Grass And High Tides. The next show they have on April 10 is An Evening with author, comedian, and humorist David Sedaris, who will also be giving a book signing in the lobby befor...

Hello everyone! As all of you reading are aware, I live in Westchester County, and like every other place in the state of New York, it has many places that have been registered as historic places by the state of New York, and today, I am going to talk about them!  If you’re wondering how this will work, I will be going over each place, and giving a quick synopsis of each of them, and hopefully by the end of this blog post, all of you reading will be intrigued to check any or all of them out. The first place on the registry is the Armour-Stiner House in Irvington, which is an octagon shaped Victorian style house that is open for guided tours by appointment. The next place on the registry is the Bear Mountain Bridge, which is a toll suspension bridge that goes across the Hudson River and connects Bear Mountain State Park in Orange County and Cortlandt in Westchester County. At the time that this bridge was completed in 1924, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, a title ...

Hello everybody!  Here’s something that a lot of you might not have known about me: I’m a big fan of the cooking competition series Top Chef! And we are also a week and a day away from the new season premiering on March 9, so I figured I would honor the show in some way, and I feel that the best way to do that is by writing about restaurants from past contestants. Yes, that’s right. I am going to be writing about restaurants again. I am not going to be talking about all of them, as that would just be way too much for me to write about, so I am instead going to focus on restaurants in Connecticut and New York, as those are the ones closest to me and most of you reading. As always, my purpose in writing about these restaurants is that any or all of them sound interesting to all of you reading, and it encourages you to go check them out. We will start off in Connecticut! The first restaurant that I am going to talk about is an interesting one, BarVera Mediterranean Restaurant in Stamf...