Townies

The reason I started this blog was cause I had to register as one to post a response in the Pittsford Blog of the D&C on Schoen Place and the over population of ducks and geese there.I recall that in the 70's Schoen Place was pretty much no mans land.There were some stores there but no one hung out along the canal except guys like us when we partied out behind thirstys in the area that would become a little park.Who knew we were pioneers?.That one winter some of the guys living at Richie C's worked at the Ski Hut down there.We had the Brow Party at his house over X-Mass the one my brother taped some of.Hey Jeff L. if you ever decide to run for office we DO still have that video of you holding that piece of glass with all those little white lines on it.Anyhoo that small park behind thirstys has tables and all nowdays.Tom B. told me years ago he, the wife and young daughter went down there for a picnic on a warm summer eve.As they were eating the late(Steady) Eddie Beers comes walking down the hill strips to his underwear and jumps into the canal basically to bathe.Then he gets out and walks away.It turns out he was offspring of one of the very first families to settle in Pittsford.Those townies were a strange eccentric bunch to us suburban Pittsfordites.You had R.C. and Hutch running one end of town and the Boland brothers the other.Numbers,Racketts,Acey Ducey you name it they had a finger in it.Then there was the crowd from Sherwood.It's a wonder they aren't all in prison or Design School teachers.I believe it was a July 4th parade down Main Street one year when Terry Huntoon turned a corner on his cycle and all of a sudden was leading the parade.Lets not forget Bob Wurt... who was shot at by a drug lord/country club exec and has modeled the orange jumpsuit.After the parade that day I went over to Bill F's for the first time and we were out in the back of his house rolling a bone when his mom wanders out and makes some crack about smoking dope and Then he introduces me to his mother.There are still areas of the village I won't go after dark.You just don't feel safe like out in Suburban Pittsford.Maybe it's the water that made townies act so strange.