Chautauqua Co

A blog about Chautauqua county Ny. 🍇 Chautauqua county is a rural county in western ny bordering Pennsylvania. This is not an official blog.

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Jenna’s 4th st cafe

Jenna’s is a cafe in Dunkirk ny

I go there most Tuesdays after volunteering

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🌿Plant Allies 🌿. Eastern Redbud (native)

Cercis canadensis

AKA. Spice wood tree, American Judas tree,

🌱If you know of any other names for Eastern redbud, esp. native named, please share.

Eastern redbud is a legume(you can tell by the flowers and pods) /tree native to the eastern US, parts of Canada, and a population in central Eastern Mexico.(Cercis canadensis var. mexicana) The tree flowers around April. (When the pic above was taken) and for some reason the flowers may grow from the trunk. They’re understory trees who are pollinated by long tongue bees and are hosts to multiple butterfly and moths. Thier heart ♥️ shaped leaves turn yellow/orange in fall.

Redbud have been bred into dozens of cultivars, including a weeping willow-ish one called “golden falls”. An example may be in my photo.

The flowers and seeds are edible and are traditional food for the locals. Green twigs are used as seasoning in traditional Appalachian cuisine. The bark was used in medicine.

Genus name Cercis is from the Greek Kerkus “weaver’s shuttle”.

It’s the state tree of Oklahoma

The name Judas tree comes from its family member, C. siliquastrum, which, according to some folk belief, was the tree Judas hung himself on. This I’d from a mistranslation of Judea’s tree. That name comes from the former abundance of Cersis trees in the region(mountainous region of the Levant, now the location of Israel and the West Bank).

Symbolism.

Eastern Redbud. Renewal.

Cersis in Turkey. Royalty, wealth, power.

Christian lore. Consequences of temptation. It was believed the nectar was an opiate for bees and they would o.d.

Sources.

Wikipedia: eastern RedBud

Plant. Native. Eastern Redbud

Photo taken by op at The Grape Discovery Center.

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Antique wooden postcard depicting the state of New York, circa 1920s-1930s.

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Building the ice castle in Mayville, Ny

They’re prepping for the winter festival.

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Antique store on the corner of

Brocton, ny, a smallish village in Chautauqua county, ny.

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Cool glass I found at an antique village center. Not sure what most of it is but I want a lot of them.

Especially the orange/marigold and the iridescent dark ones.

Local antique dealers can rent space

Above is a cool lamp.

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Necklace made of human hair braided into fishnet weave beads with gold clasp.

Fenton History center

Jamestown ny

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Went to harvest view green house in brocton ny

I liked how the light was hitting the mums. Those are the 1st 5

The next 2 are ice plants the yellow one has a honey bee.

Yellow yarrow

And

“Crazy” daisy

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Locals (Western NY)

New England Aster (probably). Might be a NY Aster.

Michaelmas daisy, American Starwort

Aster novae-angliae now Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

Native to the Eastern US and Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸

🍂Fall flowers (Aug-Nov)

They grow in thickets and meadows, sometimes they’re cultivated in gardens. (The ones around me are wild) Many insects use asters for food, especially long tongued bumblebees. A lot of Eastern natives used New England Asters in medicine. Where I live the closest surviving natives are the Seneca (O-non-dowa-gah) who are part of the Haudensaunee (Iroquois). They used New England Asters to treat weak skin and fevers.

New England Aster is also used to treat lung, congestion, bronchitis, nerves, pain, diarrhea, 🤧

Dried roots were smoked to attract game(Chippewa) and the Meskwaki and Potawatomi use the smoke to revive unconscious people.

Symbolism

Afterthought, cheerfulness in old age, welcome, welcome to a stranger,

They can be used as protection from ghosts and witches.

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Sources. I’m going to try to properly cite.

Meyernik kitchen

Cornell Botanical Gardens

Dietz, S. Theresa. The Complete Language of Flowers A Definitive and Illustrated History. 2020. Sweet Water Press/ Wellfleet Press

Peterson, Roger Tory/McKenny, Margret. Wildflowers Northeastern/North-Central North America. 1996. Haughton Mifflin. (My copy is a little out dated)

Photo belongs to SJA

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Flowers and some ducks (mallard?) at. Dunkirk city pier, Dunkirk, ny

We got, fom the left

💛common toadflax/butter and eggs. (Native of Eurasia)

🪨 Stonecrop ( non native?)

🤍aster of some kind (native locally)

🦆 Mallard ? Ducks (native locally)

River oats (native locally)

💜 purple-top vervain (native to South America) with honey bee

💜 purple top vervain without bed

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Toy room

Lots of dolls including a sock monkey on the bottom left.

1. Top left Train set/coin bank from Lakeshore Savings bank. 1991-95 got the bank’s 100 anniversary. It was designed in honor of the trains that were made by Brooks Locomotive Works at the Dunkirk plant.

The chalkboard says “I must not tell false tales”. On the far right is another school slate from Leon, NY in the late 1800s.

2. Top right. Front left. Bisque head and shoulders, maker unknown. Doll in the black dress is a replica of a doll from one of the McClurg children. The doll in the bed is a “Mama Doll-Flossy Flirt. Ideas Toy Co, US. 1st American made doll that sold wildly.

Next row.

3. Doll In the far left’s n the white dress is an Armand Marselle doll made in Germany. Next to her, in back, another Mama doll. The wooden doll In front of her is a handmade doll of Lydia Cowgill from the. Early 1800s. The tiny dolls in front are “penny” dolls.

4. Right. Jar of blueberries picked in Cherrycreek, NY by Leroy Phillips. He died of a sudden illness the night after picking them. His mom preserved them as a keepsake.

Third row.

5. Left. Milner’s model 1820-30 used to make sample dresses to show costumers.

6. Right. Wicker baby carriage with doll.

Forth row

7. Left. Doll in a chair I front of a window other a mini umbrella. Wicker rocking chair on front of her. Doll house on the right. Crib in the front.

8. Right. Pirate puppet 🏴‍☠️. Made by Miriam Mayshark for Das Puppenspeil.

Last row

Left. Sock monkey on a high chair from the Portage Inn

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Civil war era.

McClurg museum. Link

Top.

1. Union uniform.

2-3. Details of green, silk dress

4. Green silk dress

5. Painting of William B. Cushing and crew taking out Confederate iron clad CSS Albemarie, October 27, 1864 with a small steam boat

6. Exhibit on Albion W. Tourgee, author and Civil war veteran. His books can be seen on the bottom of the photo. His pic is at the top. I

Exhibit on the 112th Ny Volunteer Infantry , including some of the battles they fought. And in the lower left of the photo is a pic with the name of some of the soldiers.

The cards say

“Some of the Numerous Battles, Campaigns, and Expeditions in which the 112th Participated.

-Jan 1863- Deserted House & Black Water, VA

- April 1863- Siege of Suffolk, VA

-June 1863- Peninsula Campaign in Virginia

-July 1863- White House &Portsmouth, VA

- May 1864-Fort Darling, VA

-May 1864- Drury’s Bluff, VA

-June 1864- Cold Harbor, VA

-June/Dec- 1864- Seige- Petersburg & Richmond,VA

- July 1864- Bermuda One Hundred, VA

-Sept 1864- Chaffin’s Farm, VA

-Oct 1864- Fair Oaks- VA

- Dec 1864- First Battle of Fort Fisher, NC

- Jan 1875- Second Battle of Fort Fisher, NC

-Mar/Apr 1865- Carolina’s Campaign “

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McClurg Mansion/Museum/Chautauqua Historical Society, Westfield, NY

Link

Top. Lincoln funeral stuff.

2. Hours. Teus-Fri 10am- 1pm. Saturday (June-Sept) 10 am-2pm.

3. Gun and medals

4. Desk

5. Stairwell and portrait.

6. Cool stain glass

7. Medals.

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Chalk art contest at Barker library.

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Native plants.

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New mural in Jamestown, Ny.

Roger Tory Peterson lived in Jamestown at some point.

By Chuck Tingley.

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It was moth week on I Naturalist, so here’s some moths from Chautauqua. County Ny.

Top 2. Right. Angle moth of some sort, left. modest sphinx

Middle. Rt. E spotted forester moth, Left. common tan wave

Bottom right. Elophilia of some sort. Left. Carrot seed moth.

💡 You guys have any pics of your local moth friends?