Celebrating the first day of Spring — Buttered parsnips
“In the spring, the buttered parsnip is among the things you eat. In the spring, the festive oyster clambers (moves awkwardly) to the rearward seat,” The Granville Sentinel mused on May 3, 1889.
Spring is the season for tearing down fences.
“Each spring sees the removal of a large number of frost fences,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on May 28, 1894. “This conduces to the beauty of the village, especially where the lawns are well kept.”
In other spring anecdotes collected from northern New York historic newspapers:
1880
- “When the air becomes balmy with the smoke of the farmers’ brush fires in the field, when the trees begin to bud and the birds commence their new song, when the ulster retires to his clothes-press and the strawberries are only a quarter of a dollar apiece, the most hopeless begins to build hope for himself a new world on the ruins of the old.” — Elizabethtown Post & Gazette, April 22.
- Oh, the joy of Spring cleaning!
“The sound of the carpet whipper is heard in the land. Dust is plenty, soap suds thick, but the husbands may wear a forced smile and cheerfully lend a helping hand. — Elizabethtown Post & Gazette, May 6.
1894
- “Glad Spring, we bid you welcome — we greet you without delay. May the sunny days that brought you attend you while you stay.” — The Granville Sentinel, April 13.
1895
- “In the springtime the young man’s fancy lightly turns to leaving his heavy overcoat with his uncle.” — The Granville Sentinel, May 3.
“Glad Spring, we bid you welcome — we great you without delay. May the sunny days that brought you, attend you while you stay.” — The Granville Sentinel
1906
“Spring, spring, beautiful spring, for the baseball schedules are out.” — The Argus of Albany, Feb. 18.
1925
- “To me, the stir of spring, just before it bursts forth from the ground and opens its eyes in buds and blooms, is the miracle of miracles.” — George Matthew Adams “Today’s Talk” column, The Post-Star, April 21
