Birthday Celebration at “The Falcon”

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A while back our friend Joan invited us to a celebration in honor of her birthday. It was to take place at ‘The Falcon‘ a live music venue on Route 9w in Marlboro, NY. From the road the falcon doesn’t look like much, but it’s actually rather interesting. It’s built on multiple, terraced levels, with a waterfall running by.

The music was OK, the food was fairly typical pub fare but the overall experience was great.

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Joan, the birthday girl.

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Professor Louie and the Crowmatix performing.

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One of the terraces as seen from a higher terrace.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

Peekskill Summer Sounds

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We were hungry so we went for a meal first – outside at 12 Peekskill Lounge on Division Street, which was closed for the event. We were just around the corner from where the music was so we could hear, but not see the bands.

After we’d finished our meal we went around the corner and took a seat with the assembled multitudes (see below) to listen to the headline act: a Billy Joel Tribute Band called “River of Dreams”.

There’s a very nice bookstore (Bruised Apple Books, the last store on the left in the second picture) in the same location. These pictures were taken around 9:30pm so I didn’t expect it to be open, but to my surprise it was. I took a look around and came out with “Die Schöpfung” (The Creation) by Ernst Haas in the original German (which luckily I can still just about read).

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Broader view of the people watching “River of Dreams”

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

Military Re-Enactment Day at Boscobel – The Assembled Multitudes

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I don’t know what I was expecting when I went to the re-enactment – possibly something like the large US Civil War re-enactments I had seen pictures of and read about. These seem to be serious affairs with hundreds, even thousands of participants.

This was nothing like that. The above picture shows ALL of the uniformed re-enactors. If you add in the female re-enactors it was probably less that 40 in all. They seemed to be enjoying themselves though.

For a sense of how seriously some people take these re-enactments take a look at Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.