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CLYDE, MONTICELLO & COOPERSTOWN
New York, USA
Buffalo Bill Dam

July 29th, 2000

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Greetings Culture Vultures,

Hopefully this letter finds you all as fit as a malley bull and twice as dangerous.

Things are a bit quite here in Gotham City at the moment. I think I'm starting to turn into a bit of a "house poof". I spending a lot of time lately trying to turn my house into a home by picking out furnishings, cutlery & crockery, accessories and all that "Girly Shit" that's associated with a home.

I must be in touch with my feminine side as I can't make my mind as quickly as I used to. Never fear about me turning into a pillow biter though, the home theatre and the beer fridge keep me firmly grounded in my masculinity.

I hit the turps on Friday night with my good mate Dash. We went out on the tiles to introduce him to the great Aussie tradition of "wetting the baby's head" to celebrate the arrival of Alyssa. We had a ball (as our fitness level on Saturday attested to), but both quickly came to the realization that we enjoy sitting on the lounge in front of the home theatre system sipping "Dirty Muther's" or "White Russian's" until the cows come home.

Today's photos are from three towns within New York state. Clyde was a little town the we stopped for lunch in and wondered around a little in. Monticello is the spot where the original Woodstock was held in and Cooperstown is the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Stay Happy ;-)

Fitzy

I'm presuming this is the "dead letter" office as I've never seen a cemetary with it's own mail boxes.	This was a 3 storey antique shop in the middle of the small town of Clyde.
Now, this is the place I would live in with absolutely no dramas at all. It was renting for $350-00 a month.	Cooperstown is a quaint little town whose major claim to fame is that it is the home to the American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Standing in front of Babe Ruth's plaque. The "Babe" is an American icon that arguably is one of the greatest baseball of all times.	Cooperstown, New York is the home of the American Baseball Hall of Fame. This is the gear that Mark McGwire hit his 70 home runs in 1998 with.
This was the site of the Woodstock Aquarian Exposition which ran from Friday August 15th through Sunday August 17th 1969. This is Woodstock!	The Festival was to be held in Woodstock, New York but in fact was held in this paddock on Yasgur's Farm outside the town of Monticello, New York.
This is a pretty good shot of the actual hills that were the natural amphitheatre for the weekend.	Obviously I was only 3 years old when this was taken, but it show how many people turned up.
The original cost for a 3 day ticket was $18-00. More than 500,000 turned up for the weekend but less than a ¼ actually paid.	The reason for Woodstock was to make money to build a recording studio in Woodstock, New York for the big music stars that lived there.