July 30, 2017 Sunday
We love to get our fruits and vegetables at the local Famer’s Market but it seems that, as of late, we are always in towns on the wrong day of the week. Today was the Famer’s Market for Brockport so we delayed leaving this morning until after going to the market. We were so glad we did, the market was small but the selection was perfect, now we need to eat all that we purchased before it goes bad.
Small Medina, population 5,784, has two Ripley’s Believe it or Not entry’s. Culvert Road is the only place in which a road passes under the Erie Canal and St. John’s Episcopal Church, built in the 1830’s, is the “Church in the Middle of the Road.”
What the Village of Medina is famous for is its “Medina Sandstone” a brown stone used widely in buildings not only in this region but throughout the states and England. One such building is Bent’s Opera House, built during the Civil War, it is one of the oldest surviving theaters in the United States. Buffalo Bill Cody, P. T. Barnum, violinists Remenyi and Camilla Urso, and politician William Randolph Hearst were among the hundreds of performers who shared their talents at the Bent’s Opera House.
Cruising down the canal you can certainly tell that this is farm country. At Medina the Oak Orchard Creek not only provides water for the farmers, it also travels beneath the Erie Canal and then drops forty-feet to create the lovely Medina Waterfall.
At the Medina Public Dock, workers are priming the wall for a new paint job. It seems the Sailing Canal Boat Lois McClure is coming to town and the town management wants all in ship-shape order.
