Adding a snow day to the Cobb’s Hill series

Posted by [email protected] | Mar 2, 2018 | Cultural Life | 0 |

These boys were all smiles about having a snow day. The sledder in red goes to SOTA and the sledder above to Brighton. 3/2/18 [Photo: David Kramer]

Over the life of the magazine, we’ve had much winter fun at Cobb’s Hill. (SEE FULL SERIES BELOW)

We’ve played ultimate Frisbee in an April snowfall, football with the Yeshiva students on a frigid late December afternoon, and watched people place well used sleds in the BROKEN SLEDS ONLY barrel during last year’s March blizzard.

(left) 4/03/16, (center) 12/30/17 and (right) 3/15/17

When I arrived this afternoon to the slopes of Cobb’s Hill, dozens of people were playing hookey. Except they weren’t. The late winter snowfall had cancelled school! Many people had an inkling last night; all got the official news in the very early morning.

These students go to Brighton High School and before school starts attend services at the Church of the Latter Day Saints on Westall Road. The sitting guy awoke at 4am to hear the joyous news. Normally, he is up at 5am, carpooled to church and then to school. Today he actually got out of bed past sunrise! The boy’s piety and love of learning notwithstanding, he said sometimes sleeping in is a really good thing.

The snow cancelled both church and state for these sledders.

This family’s son attends Nazareth Elementary School. They got the official news at about 5am. The boy said we was able to fall right back to sleep and didn’t wake up until eight o’clock. I asked when they decided to go sledding: at 5am when they heard it was a snow day!

They geared up for the day as soon as the announcement was official.

This guy — who preferred his face not be shown — was perhaps the most fortunate. On Friday, he was scheduled to take a Chemistry test for which he had insufficiently studied and feared would fail. Now he has the whole weekend to cram for the exam — if he doesn’t spend it skiing or sledding.

This skier plans to ace his Chem test on Monday

THE COBB’S HILL SERIES

Adding Yeshiva football to the Cobb’s Hill series

In search of Talker on Cobb’s Hill for “The Day of Wrath”

The Graffiti Towers of Washington Grove: A Photographic Gallery

Adding a wooded haven to the Cobb’s Hill series with a stroll through Washington Grove

Adding a March blizzard to the Cobb’s Hill series

172 years ago when the Millerites trudged down Cobb’s Hill

42 years and counting for the Kick Ass Kro-Kay Club of Cobb’s Hill

Once more into the breech on the banks of Lake Riley

Flowering Upper Monroe

Ultimate spring fever at Cobb’s Hill

On a mound at Cobb’s Hill! And how the City of Rochester handles its loose leaves.

Cobb’s Hill welcomes the Ninth Cobb’s Hill Cyclocross

Diehards and the Cobb’s Hill Tennis Courts

Back to normalcy at Cobb’s Hill basketball

Rochester’s own street ball Rucker League

The 8th Annual Festival of Softball: After 800 Innings the “Tribute to Noah” nears $100,000

That Championship Season thirty five years later

The Cobb’s Hill tragedy of an “invisible man” ten years later

On the 22nd of October, 1844 on top of Cobb’s Hill

About The Author

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Welcome to Talker of the Town! My name is David Kramer. I have a Ph.D in English and teach at Keuka College. I am a former and still active Fellow at the Nazareth College Center for Public History and a Storyteller in Residence at the SmallMatters Institute. Over the years, I have taught at Monroe Community College, the Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College. I have published numerous Guest Essays, Letters, Book Reviews and Opinion pieces in The New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Buffalo News, the Rochester Patriot, the Providence Journal, the Providence Business News, the Brown Alumni Magazine, the New London Day, the Boston Herald, the Messenger Post Newspapers, the Wedge, the Empty Closet, the CITY, Lake Affect Magazine and Brighton Connections. My poetry appears in The Criterion: An International Journal in English and Rundenalia and my academic writing in War, Literature and the Arts and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Starting in February 2013, I wrote for three Democratic and Chronicle blogs, "Make City Schools Better," "Unite Rochester," and the "Editorial Board." When my tenure at the D & C ended, I wanted to continue conversations first begun there. And start new ones. So we created this new space, Talker of the Town, where all are invited to join. I don’t like to say these posts are “mine.” Very few of them are the sole product of my sometimes overheated imagination. Instead, I call them partnerships and collaborations. Or as they say in education, “peer group work.” Talker of the Town might better be Talkers of the Town. The blog won’t thrive without your leads, text, pictures, ideas, facebook shares, tweets, comments and criticisms.