Preserving One of the Oldest Buildings in Western Pennsylvania

Preserving One of the Oldest Buildings in Western Pennsylvania

A Cornell University’s tree-ring laboratory report indicated that the home was probably built circa 1775 with a possible cellar replacement or southward expansion circa 1810.

Documents revealed that the northern addition was built circa 1867.

The data established the Carroll Cabin as one of the oldest surviving log homes in Southwestern Pennsylvania -- one that has been standing now for 245 years!

Goats and Soda : NPR

Wacky toilet signs provide toilet humor for World Toilet Day : Goats and Soda : NPR

But in all seriousness, World Toilet Day is a serious event. In 2013, the United Nations officially dubbed Nov. 19 the day to "celebrate toilets and raise awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation" – in other words, a place to do number 1 and number 2 with dignity, without risk to your safety and without endangering others with diseases that stem from fecal matter.

Indeed, each year, diarrheal diseases, which can spread via contact with fecal matter, kill half a million kids age 5 and under. Youngsters who contract these diseases and survive often are physically and cognitively stunted for life.

Using the bathroom out in the open — say, in a field or street or a body of water — is a risk factor for the spread of diarrhea as well as diseases like cholera and typhoid. According to a 2020 report by UNICEF and WHO, 494 million people practice open defecation.

Crossgates Hotel 2021

NY State has posted high-resolution imagery taken of Albany County during the spring of 2021, so I thought it interesting to highlight some of the changes since last round of aerial photography locally -- 2017.