Monday, January 29, 2007

Downtown Etna



Etna is a a small hamlet a few miles east of Ithaca and Cornell. We have a cemetery, bus stop, playground, nature preserve, firehouse, bridge and river (pictured) little old church and community hall/post office (pictured)and about 200-300 residents. The shot of the river is looking from the bridge up behind my back yard.
Etna was once a toddlin' little town with 2 stores, creamery, black smith, train station, school and the cobbler's shop: our house was the cobbler's.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I tell ya... sounds like the perfect place for me to live in! I hope it has the feeling of communityu there as well

gary rith said...

It does have a tight community. I wish we had a bar/cafe ('The Pot and Pig') but we see each other at the PO because everybody has to get mail in a box, plus there are events all the time, like chocolate fest next week, at the community building, and easter egg hunts and such....
help gordo with his black mark and come visit!

Mother of Invention said...

This looks like a beautiful place to live! Can you canoe in the river? We'd love that!

Anonymous said...

parts of the river are very good for canoeing--last summer it flooded dangerously with rains several times, and a couple times fell quite shallow. it is now solid ice! poor geese and ducks...