A Sign Of Summer In October ...

“I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.”

         ~ Bill Bryson

         ~ American-British author

          ~ born 1951

A cool sign beckons travelers on South Delaware Drive – Route 611 – to The Canalside Cup, open seasonally in the spring and summer, in Williams Township, Easton, Pennsylvania, along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) on a late October afternoon.

Sadly, The Canalside Cup is now permanently closed, but it dished up tasty fare with a cup of retro on the side.

The Canalside Cup served up ice cream, funnel cake fries, burgers, hot dogs and the like with a retro vibe, as 1950s music played over speakers outside where shaded picnic tables invited patrons to soak up the scenic view while they noshed.

I captured this shot after setting off from the Wy-Hit-Tuk Park Trailhead, Easton of the D&L Trail.

The trail is positioned between the Delaware River and Delaware Canal, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Wy-Hit-Tuk means “river” in the Native American language of the Lenape, the American Indians who lived throughout the Delaware River Basin at the time of European contact.

 

October's Turn ...

“To everything (turn, turn, turn)

There is a season (turn, turn, turn)

And a time for every purpose under heaven …”

        ~ “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

         ~ recorded by “The Byrds”

                ~ 1965

“Turn! Turn! Turn!” or “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) is a song written by Pete Seeger in the 1950s & first recorded in 1959. The lyrics ~ except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines ~ consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.

It’s October’s turn to show off its brilliant fall foliage as the leaves turn to autumn hues on a beautiful late October evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

October Fire ...

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”
               ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                     ~ 1803~1882

The fiery sunset of October 2, 2021 sweeps across the vast sky on a beautiful autumn evening at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Art Down The Alley ...

 “Feeling is what I like in art, not craftiness and the hiding of feelings.”

           ~ Jack Kerouac

             ~1922 ~ 1969

An artistic view of Bank Street, just off Northampton Street in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania as evening looms on a mid-November afternoon.

Bank Street is the site of “Artists in the Alley,” a tented arts and crafts event, held every Saturday from May through November from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

The sign for the now closed “Just Around The Corner Fine Art & Fine Craft Gallery” can be seen at right.

Easton, an historic Delaware River Town founded in 1752, is just across the Delaware River from historic Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and is located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Lehigh River.