Try to see what’s on TV on the
ceiling of the Bug Jar.
Board the Mary Jemison or the Sam
Patch from Corn Hill Landing.
Request the private viewing room
at the Cinema Theater.
Enjoy the view from the new ExchangeStreetBridge.
Listen to Fred Costello rock the
organ at Frontier Field. Get a white hot while you’re there.
Step back into music history at
the ClarissaRoom.
Read the quirky stuff at
www.rocwiki.org, therefrigerator.net, or www.toxicrochester.com.
Get frozen custard and stroll Charlotte.
Hear the next new things perform
at the open mics at Java’s and Daily Perks.
Look up in Little Theatre 5 and
see stars.
Try to find the White Lady at DurandEastmanPark.
Watch the stories come to life
with Rochester Children’s Theatre productions.
Read the writing on the wall in
the can at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. (Then get takeout.
It’s quicker.)
Hear a director introduce his film
at the Dryden Theatre.
Frolic in the meadows at Corbett’s
Glen.
Get caught up in a pyrotechnic
Mormon story at the Hill Cumorah summer pageant.
Ride your bike along Route 65.
Watch 19th-century baseball at the
GeneseeCountryVillage and Museum.
Swing in the hammock (weather
permitting) at Lux Lounge.
Find your aural bliss on the low
end of the dial: Rejuvenation on WRUR
88.5 FM, jazz on WGMC 90.1 FM, and the slowFlow Show on
WITR 89.7 FM.
See a memorial from the
Revolutionary War in Groveland.
Find the home of the spiritualist
church in Lily Dale.
Paddle Irondequoit Creek.
Pay a buck to get into the Lamberton Conservatory; seek out the SunkenGarden in Highland
Park.
Sinful taste-test: cigars at the
Rochester Cigar Factory, beer at Custom Brewcrafters
in HoneoyeFalls,
wine all throughout the Finger Lakes.
Find a good hat to borrow at Betty
Meyer’s Bullwinkle Cafรฉ.
Stock up on old paper at the
Antiquarian Book Fair.
Disappear into a tree tunnel along
the Greenway.
Hear something new at A\V.
Find your white elephants at the
Blessed Sacrament Rummage Sale.
Sign your kids up with the master:
Garth Fagan Imaginations Dance Classes.
Get transported to the Renaissance
with MusicaSpei’s choral
music.
Find the DVD you didn’t know you
wanted, Global DVD.
Learn all you wanted to learn
about raptors at BraddockBay.
Look for famous names in Mt.HopeCemetery.
Roam the Central Library: tunnel,
hidden doll room, and all.
Watch local cable access, Channel
15 RCTV.
Read Smugtown, U.S.A. to understand Rochester’s old
money.
Hike up Washington Grove to see
the decorated water towers.
Watch other people’s embarrassing
moments at Home Movie Day.
Visit your youth at the National
Toy Hall of Fame, StrongMuseum.
Shop the collection of artists’
books at Visual Studies Workshop.
Listen: International Jazz
Festival, MusicFest. They come to us.
Eat a garbage plate; take a day of
rest.
Go to an independent bookstore. Brownbag, Gutenberg, Greenwood, LiftBridge, Yankee Peddlar, Write Book.
Watch the trains come in from
behind Village Gate Square
or on the East Main Streetbridge.
Walk the flour mill ruins at HighFalls.
Go to a free concert in the
Eastman Theatre.
Watch: HighFalls Film Festival, ImageOut Film and Video Festival.
Walk around Village
Gate Square and marvel at its othermallness.
Pay $2 admission on Thursday
evenings to the MemorialArtGallery.
See the best drag queens around
— DarienneLake, Aggy
Dune, Pandora Boxx, Ambrosia
Salad — at Club Muther’s.
Check out the model trains at EdgertonCommunity Center.
Visit Lollypop Farm and try not to
bring a pet home.
Walk ARTWalk.
Squeeze a Live From
Hochstein broadcast into your lunch hour.
Get stuck going in circles on the
Inner Loop.
Get a look at the old subway
before they fill it in.
Seek a thrill on the old, wooden
Jack Rabbit rollercoaster.
Visit the Liberty Pole when it’s
all lit up for the holidays. Wonder why you did.
Go to the former ferry terminal
and look longingly across the lake.
Find out if you’re a writer
(Writers & Books); a photographer or potter (GeneseeCenter for the Arts); an artist (MemorialArtGallery’s
Creative Workshop); or a glassmaker (More Fire Glass Studio).
Visit the Public Market early on a
Saturday morning. Eat a breakfast of the gods.
Learn something: go to George
Eastman House and Susan B. Anthony House. Wish we had a Frederick Douglass
house.
Discover the best party
decorations at a Public Star Party with the Rochester Astronomers Club.
Hand-feed those
poor, bloated chickadees in MendonPondsPark.
Head to the ‘burbs
and pick your own produce.
Devote a Saturday to science at RochesterMuseum and ScienceCenter.
Join a participatory dance group
for a night of Irish, Argentinean, contra, swing, or folk dancing.
This article appears in Mar 22-28, 2006.
