Elbert Hubbard loved the out-of-doors. He is known to have taken the employees of the Roycroft Campus on many hikes in the woods. Not much has been written if he liked the water or if he canoed or boated. We do know there was a well-known boating and canoe launch not far from the Roycroft Campus.
It was called Creekside Park (later called Donner's Grove). Roycroft visitors and locals rented canoes and went on boat rides in the Cazenovia Creek.
There is no longer a park in this exact area but you can still canoe or kayak the creek. Here is a photo of my son and I launching into the Cazenovia Creek just like Roycroft visitors and workers may have done 100 years ago. (Ok maybe not in plastic kayaks but you get the idea)
Julie (in the yellow/black kayak)
there was a humorous artical written about Elbert walking a group of visitors both men and women thru the waters of cazanovia creek,as a prank, knowing full well that there was a bridge around the next bend.
Posted by: don meade | July 11, 2009 at 09:11 AM
Oh, I think I have read that before. That is a good story!
Posted by: julie | August 06, 2009 at 08:15 PM