by Reverend George Lansing Taylor
This article from the Auburn Daily Bulletin, December 16, 1873
was contributed by John Duda.
In a recent issue of the New York Christian Advocate, the Rev. Geo. Lansing Taylor gives a charming description of a day spent on Chrysler’s Bluffs, in the vicinity of Little Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario.
Mr. Taylor, who is a graceful poet and prose writer, as well as preacher, grew up from boyhood to manhood in the town of Sterling, in this county. Last October he spent several days amid the old scenes, giving one whole day to a ramble on the lake shore, among haunts of his boyhood. His description of the visit is a beautiful word-picture, and moreover possesses local interest, though we presume few of our readers were even aware so charming a locality lay within the borders of our county.
Mr. Taylor describes his adventures as follows :
On the morning of the 18th of October [1873], Jacob Chrysler, Esq., of Fair Haven, drove me in his buggy from Fair Haven, some five miles, by roads familiar to my memory, past well-known farms and old houses, past “M.Knight’s red school house,” whence several of my schoolmates Continue reading “An Autumn Day on Chrysler’s Bluff”