Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is back as the editor of the Skaneateles Press, in beautiful Skaneateles New York.
She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, and most recently the Syracuse City Eagle. She makes her home in Skaneateles where she is also a freelance photographer and caregiver for her parents, Bill and Marion Leahy.
She began her formal writing career as a columnist with one of her hometown papers, The Duxbury Clipper, in Duxbury, MASS. Born in California, she then moved to Sea Girt, NJ. She is a product of small town America - and the late great American Middle Class.
The photo at right is the drive down to Brook Farm off of West Lake Road - one of my former Skaneateles haunts.
Currently reading...
CLEAN, as well as other assorted reads on my dad's Kindle.
Our newsroom here at the Eagle is similar to the catacombs of Ancient Rome – only with vending machines. There are open cubicles separating the various town’s editors. Then there is a random guy named Joe and the city editor, which is me. Joe and I are housed in what is more like a cubicle-slash-cave. It’s a special secluded place for two. The room is lit by fluorescence and we walk on ink stained carpet. The various employees shout out conversation or questions over the fabric covered walls.
In the epicenter sits our sports guy, Phil. He has a giant brain. He knows from an encyclopedic perspective all things sports, music and politics complete with names, dates, statistics, lyrics and speeches...
As reporters all over the nation are scurrying about for the scoop on what the public is doing in regard to gas prices, I kick back and rely on my own edgy style. “Edgy,” that’s me. Simply put, I go to the edge of life by asking mom and dad their take on the topic at hand? Married for 60 years and heading towards their 90s, they know a little something about gas, modes of transportation too. Do they have a thought, an idea, or a possible solution to America’s current high priced gas woes? Of course they do!
In the afternoon, father normally takes mother for a drive. She doesn’t really care where they go, often making up destinations just so he will take her out...
