Gregory's Flea Market

Rustic Chic Open House

Hours for the open house will be 9 to 2 on Saturday, July 25th. . I asked and the owners said it's okay to print this out and they will honor it. If you are out and about, be sure to stop in!

About Town

So this happened. We've actually had no rain for a few days--and the flowers must be watered! I actually had some "guests" in town a couple of weeks ago that asked me if they were real. I assured them that they are!

Stop In And Say Hi!

Memorial Day Weekend

The town is gearing up for Memorial Day weekend. I have to hand it to Altamont-- we do do a few things right!

Snow On Main Street

Yesterday we got our first real snow for the winter, by which I mean it was more than an inch and isn't going away any time soon. I don't mind snow, not really, but I prefer it in December. By February I'm just looking forward to Spring. 

RIP Blue Mound Tavern

I took a pilgrimage to the site of the (former) Blue Mound Tavern yesterday. I say pilgrimage because it truly felt like one! Although it wasn't formally in Altamont, it was a part of us, and our history.

I spent many an evening there in my younger days. We have truly lost a landmark! The building was old (80 years, I heard) and there was probably no chance of saving it.

The twisted metal kind of twisted at my stomach. Seeing what was left of the tables and chairs, thinking "that was the one I sat at last time I was here" made me a bit melancholy.

When I was a kid, occasionally Dad took us in and bought us a soda on Sunday afternoons (a friend of his owned it in those days) and then once I was legally old enough to drink we ended weekend evenings there when the "in town bars" closed.

I had only gone out a handful of times over the course of the last few years, but it was one of my favorite places. May we always remember it fondly.