by Laurel | June 28th, 2010
The Bud
Back again in the Finger Lakes after a brief holiday including a few days in Holyoke.
In January I was in Holyoke for a couple of days, but it was far from a pleasure trip and there was no time to look around . I haven’t been to Holyoke in maybe 7 years. When my son moved out of MA, I lost the easiest lodging place and then, well, life just “got in the way. ”
This time around there was driving around time and frankly I was stunned at the number of buildings ready to be demolished. Some — such as The Bud — were no surprise of course, but others were. And I was to some extent reminded of my tenure in Brooklyn where the symbols denoting condition were on many buildings — many of them historic buildings — that had been left to rot on their own to make demolition possible. Not saying this is true in Holyoke, but it was in Brooklyn.
I don’t mind new buildings done well, but it doesn’t happen all that often, and it saddens me to know next time around many places I saw during this last visit will be gone.
