Saturday Afternoon Jaunts

BTrumansburg is a little village about twenty minutes from the campus, with scenic access to the gorge and waterfalls. The waterfall is about 200 feet and freezes over in winter. However, this was not the time for lengthy leisurely strolls along the many trails. We admired the falls, took photographs, made small talk with other alumni, and one maharashtrian, then left to continue our mission.

Our mission-- to deliver our homemade mulberry jam to a dear friend, 91 year-old Ruth Kahn-- was accomplished. We spent a pleasurable couple hours with her. She gave us a tour of her yard as well as the history of all the trees. Then we sat in her kitchen and shared bread and jam. She ate our bread from an Ithaca bakery, and we ate her homemade bread with caraway seeds with her quince, and grape-currant jams.