Take your time, DST will be with us a while longer

We may have lost summer, and we may have lost some daylight hours, but we're still on Daylight Saving Time. (Please note, it is "saving," not "savings" as so many people say.)

That won't change for a while. When our local time is about to reach
Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 2 a.m. you'll turn your clocks backward (spring ahead, fall back) to 1 a.m. 

Sunrise and sunset both will be about one hour earlier on November 3, 2013, than the day before. That's just the way it is.

For those of you who hate the thought of losing DST, it will make a comeback on March 9, 2014. Not a lot of consolation once winter gloom descends on us, but at least you can mark something uplifting on your calendar.

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Terrace, The Summer of 1995

The first residents of the Terrace at Highpointe began moving in during 1995.

That means, hard though it may be to believe, some of us have been here for 18 years, while other original buyers moved in over the next few years as the development was constructed.

With the spate of newcomers to our community (at last count, 20 of the 34 homes are on their second or third owners), we're left with fewer "pioneers."

Harvey and Lorraine Bailey are the longest residents, edging out Bill and April Dowd by several months.

Among the other original homeowners still here:

• Bernie Mackey 
• Russ and Rose Golino 
• Donna Williams 
• Bob and Polly Hayward 
• Paula Fox Murphy 
• Dick and Betsy Harte 
• Joe and Geraldine Claeys 
• Tom and Ginny Chichester 
• Tom and Peg Savchick 
• Kay Duclos 
• Terry Page 
• John and Susan Milliren 

Here are some scenes from that start-up summer of '95.

View from what was to become No. 7 Hyland Circle.

Model home (now No. 26) is at left.

Looking north(ish) toward the first curve on Hyland Circle.

View across the empty inner-circle of the Terrace.

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Brewing in Troy

The old Stanton Brewery, looking northeast.

At one time, the City of Troy was home to nine breweries. Only two of those nine made it through Prohibition -- Stanton Brewery and Fitzgerald Brothers.

Today, of course, we have Brown's Brewing Company -- complete with its own Taproom restaurant, Malt Room lounge and Revolution Hall event space -- on River Street, just north of the Green Island Bridge.

The old Fitzgerald Brothers brewery, which closed in the late 1950s, also was located on River Street, just off Hoosick Street. 

Stanton was at 5th Avenue and Ferry Street, just down the hill from the current site of RPI's EMPAC complex.

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Images from the 'Collar City'

Troy, which still bears the nickname "Collar City" despite the absence of shirt manufacturing, once was the national leader in making removable collars for men's shirts. In this portion of a stereoscopic slide, workers are folding and ironing linen collars.

Below is a typical print advertisement for their work, this one for Arrow shirts and collars.

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Autumn will return on Sunday afternoon

"Lost in the Moment," oil on canvas by Kit Hevron Mahoney.

• From The Farmer's Almanac 

When does Fall begin?

The equinox brings Autumn on Sunday, September 22, 2013, at 4:44 p.m.

Enjoy a first day of fall poem, quotes, pictures, folklore, and more.

It is the summer's great last heat, 

It is the fall's first chill: They meet. 

-– Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 

"The Autumnal Equinox" 

The word equinox comes from the Latin words for "equal night." The Fall and Spring equinoxes are the only days of the year in which the sun crosses the celestial equator. From here on out, the temperatures begin to drop and the days start to get shorter than the nights (i.e., hours of daylight decline).

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Local Food & Drink Events

Here are a few food-and-drink related events scheduled in Troy and immediate environs this month and next. Just click on the links for details

For the most complete list of such events throughout the Greater Capital Region, go here.

September 16-22 

Troy Restaurant Week 
Prix fixe menus at various venues
Info: Troy 279-7007 (Troy BID office)

September 21

Block Party
Fulton Street
Troy

14th annual Kids Count Testimonial Dinner 
Watervliet Elks Lodge
501 Fourth Avenue
Watervliet
273-8016

September 24 

Capital District Community Gardens' Autumn Evening In the Garden 
Franklin Plaza Ballroom
4 Fourth Street
Troy
274-8685

September 28

3rd annual Story Harvest 
Freedom Square
Where 5th and 6th avenues meet 101st Street
Lansingburgh
272-2390 (Sanctuary for Independent Media)

Craft Beer Harvest Festival 
The Beer Diviner Taproom & Market
243 Bly Hollow Road, intersection of Routes 22 and 43
658-0299

October 3

Rushing Duck Beer Dinner 
McGreievy's
91 Broad Street
Waterford
238-2020

October 7 

Grand Opening 
Bonefish Grill
59 Wolf Road
Colonie

October 13 

7th annual Chowderfest 
Riverfront Park (behind River Street)
Troy
279-7997 (Troy BID office)

Autumn In Austerlitz 
Austerlitz Historical Society at Old Austerlitz
11550 Route 22
Austerlitz
392-0062

October 19-25

Downtown Albany Fall Restaurant Week
16 participating venues
Albany

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Fall meeting coming up

The annual fall meeting of the Terrace at Highpointe Community Association will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 8. This is a departure from our usual Monday meetings.

The venue will be the meeting room at Faith Lutheran Church on Leversee Road, opposite the city's Buckley Water Plant.

Please plan to attend. If you cannot, please give a neighboring homeowner your written proxy. That helps us have an official quorum. As always, there is only one vote per residence.

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Troy's annual ChowderFest nears; start dieting now

As the leaves begin to turn and the temperatures drop, one thing always comes to mind.

Chowder!

The 7th annual ChowderFest is scheduled for Sunday, October 13, at Riverside Park, behind River Street in downtown Troy.

More than 30 local restaurants will be competing for top honors from a judging panel of food writers in such categories as best overall, best seafood, best vegetarian and most creative, as well as for the People's Choice award from eventgoers.

Live music, family events and vendor booths will be available. The event is organized and run by the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID).

Chowder fans will be able to purchase as many chowder tasting tickets as they like for $1 each. Everyone who purchases a ticket will receive a People's Choice ballot.

The schedule and the lineup of chowder makers will be announced closer to the event. Meanwhile, here's a review of last year's winners:

Judges' Awards

• 1st: Autumn Pear Chowder, Treviso by Mallozzi's 
• 2nd: Cape Cod Boat Chowder, Jack's Oyster House 
• 3rd: Grilled Black Angus Steak and Potato Chowder, Albany Pump Station 
• Best Vegetarian: Empire State Apple Chowder, Kingsway Community 
• Best Seafood: Cape Cod Boat Chowder, Jack's Oyster House 
• Most Creative: Roasted Chicken-Corn Chowder with cornbread croutons and pancetta lardons, Yanni's Cucina & Yanni's Too 

People's Choice Awards

• 1st: Cape Cod Boat Chowder, Jack's Oyster House 
• 2nd: Grilled Black Angus Steak and Potato Chowder, Albany Pump Station 
• 3rd: Roasted Chicken-Corn Chowder with cornbread croutons and pancetta lardons, Yanni's Cucina & Yanni's Too

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Thanks for helping the Rotary book drive

Special thanks to those Terrace residents who contributed to the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club's drive to collect books for Unity House, the Troy non-profit that deals with individuals and families in crisis.

Terrace resident April Dowd is the current president of that Rotary Club (husband Bill is president-elect, part of their dynasty building effort).

April reports that more than 500 new and like-new books for children and adults were contributed by Rotarians as well as non-Rotarians from Lansingburgh, Troy, Spiegeltown, Watervliet, Latham, Albany and East Greenbush.

Since 1971, Unity House has provided a wide range of services to meet the needs of people in our community who are living in poverty, adults living with mental illness or HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence, and children with developmental delays. 

Unity House will be moving from its current cramped quarters on Eighth Street to a new, large facility on Second Street adjacent to the Collar City Bridge in mid-October.

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Brown's opening The Malt Room on Wednesday

TROY -- The much-anticipated expansion of the Brown's Brewing Company complex is about to debut.

Right now, Brown's Brewing Taproom and its Revolution Hall event space dominate the lineup of restaurants and bars on a stretch of River Street just north of the Green Island Bridge. They will be joined next Wednesday, September 18, by The Malt Room, a speakeasy-style venue located in the basement of Revolution Hall.

Brown's co-owner Garry Brown has personally been leading the construction project since early last year. The pub and tapas bar will be for adults seeking a quiet, relaxed adult experience -- no big screen TV sets blaring sports, no loud music, no flavored vodkas.

What it will have is Brown's own beers and ales on six taps and three beers from cask-conditioned gravity pumps, as well as some 30 scotches and 20 bourbons.

The investment of an estimated $30,000 was necessary to complete the project, which includes a copper-top bar, banquettes, coffee shop style seating and high top tables. Much of the decor comes from old barns and homes in the area, as well as from Brown's in-progress new brewery site, an old mill in Hoosick Falls.

The Malt Room will be open from 5 p.m. to close, Wednesday through Saturday. The address is 425 River Street, but the entrance is located in the rear of Revolution Hall, near the base of the Taproom dining deck.

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Troy Restaurant Week has 3 price points

Troy Restaurant Week is an interesting variation on the familiar format used elsewhere.

Some communities use dinner-only formats, some lunch-and-dinner. Here, we're talking $5, $10, $20 and $30 specials. It also has something different in terms of time. While 5-day or 10-day "weeks" are commonplace, Troy's actually will run a true week, from Monday, September 16, through Sunday, September 22.

Here are the participants at various levels. You can see their planned offerings here.

• Ale House, 680 River Street, 272-9740.
• Bacchus Wood Fired Pizza, 33 2nd Street, 687-0345.
• Beirut Restaurant, 184 River Street, 270-9404.
• Bootlegger’s On Broadway, 200 Broadway, 874-4475.
• B-Rad's Bistro & Catering, 1809 5th Street, 326-4041.
• Broadway Cafe, 357 Broadway, 273-2233.
• Brown Bag, 156 4th Street, 326-7699.
• Daily Grind, 46 3rd Street, 272-8658.
• Daisy Baker's, 32 2nd Street, 266-9200.
• Finnbar's Pub, 452 Broadway, 326-3994.
• Flying Chicken, 122 4th Street, 326-3546.
• Francesca's Cafe, 461 Broadway, 272-3726.
• Greek House, 27 3rd Street, 272-6058.
• Illium Cafe, 9 Broadway, 273-7700.
• Jose Malone's, 405 River Street, 273-2196.
• LoPorto's Ristorante Caffe, 85 4th Street, 273-8546.
• Muddaddy Flats, 409 Fulton Street, 326-0630.
• Spill'n the Beans, 13 third Street, 268-1028.

• Sweet Sue's, 203 River Street, 892-2933.

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It's that time of the year

A gentle reminder: Fourth-quarter dues must be paid by Tuesday, October 1.

As always, you can save the cost of a stamp by dropping your payment in the white box below the mailbox gazebo bulletin boards.

Checks should be made payable to Terrace at Highpointe Community Association.

Thank you.

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