"Tulip Star" by Sue

May Saratoga Today "Photo of the Week" image by Sue Clark

Thank you "Saratoga Today" Magazine  for selecting  my image - "Tulip Star," as "Photo of the Week!" Too much fun! 

Sue's February 2024 Your Hometowne front cover!

Driving back from the Warren County Historical Society annual meeting in Lake George, I passed an old truck out in a field with a funny front end. I knew it was a serious piece of solid snow removal machinery, but not much more than that, other than it was sitting outside on the ground, not a good place to store something like that. It was snowing and slippery out, but I turned the 2020  Mustang around  and got the shot. I sent it immediately to YHT publisher Cheryl Hill, who agreed it was a cover shot. I went down the rabbit hole with brothers, Wikipedia and friends to find that the truck could be an early 1950s Ford  with a SnoGo snowblower on the front. The SnoGo Company originated in Iowa in 1932/ 1933, and SnoGo still makes snow blowers to this day. Many municipalities invested in this heavy snow removal machinery. It was reliable, easy to fix, and easy to run with heated cabs and roll up windows! Many airports and  national park roads are cleaned off of  hundreds of tons of snow with these machines,  which are capable of throwing snow 100 feet off to the side. One 1930's  SnoGo in Colorado has made it into the National Historic Registry! Amazing.  I really enjoyed finding out about this months cover "star."

November 2023 Edition of "Your Hometowne" - A desk!!!

Editor Cheryl Hill selected a desk image for the cover shot of November 2023 "Your Hometowne Magazine .' What??? you say. A desk???  Now wait a minute. It's not any ordinary desk. This desk is found inside the historic Grants Cottage, last address for President / General Grant who by then was suffering from an advanced case of throat cancer and writing his memoirs while fighting intense pain, in order to save his family from poverty, due to being swindled out of their savings. So, that's why you see the map of  Vicksburg on the desk. Go visit Grant Cottage when they open back up in Spring. Youll be amazed.