New York State Marches for Peace

National Reporting of NYS Marches for Peace
Cynthia Banas from Vernon, NY, who has been a support person for the Utica Feeder March,  called in to report that her local radio station WRVO made several announcements about the Marches for Peace during the past couple of days. She also reported that Monday night, close to midnight, [...]

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I drove the support vehicle for the Utica marchers Saturday from Verona Beach to Cleveland, and Sunday from Cleveland enroute to Central Square.
On Saturday four walkers carried the March forward. After a few miles we were down to two walkers, and then we re-built back up to four, and a support person. The day was [...]

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Pete and I drove up to join the Utica wing of the walk on Sun., Mothers Day.  There was nine of us at the start of day, About half the amount of the Ithaca walk, but it’s not a competition between the three walks, right –}} Anyway  the three wings will join up on Wed [...]

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Today we had up to 25 people joinging us. We walked about 16 miles, the stretch of road was not as populated and not as much traffic, but there was good support as we walked the roads.
Near Lafayette, you could feel the momentum growing and more horns honking as we got closer to Syracuse.
We were [...]

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We gathered this morning at the gazebo in Wolcott, the town where we had stayed last night. We were joined by local friends and newcomers, including a Vietnam Veteran who had heard about the March and joined in. Wonderful to see him comfortable enough to join our morning circle.
A beautiful day to walk, walking thorugh [...]

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Utica Feeder March
Saturday, May 10 Saturday was a pleasant, uneventual day. We walked fro Verona Beach State Park to Cleveland, and stayed at Vanderdercamp Center. Today we are on to Central Square. We will be joined by a few walkers from Cleveland and Utica, and are also expecting to be joined by Pete and Jeffrey [...]

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Today, Saturday, May 10, was another beautiful day. We walked through several orchard areas, joined by several teenagers and children younger than teens with lots of energy. Today was a day with lots of drumming and singing. We were about 25-30 through the day.
We made good time and reached Wolcott around 5 p.m. Our “hosts” [...]

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Rochester Feeder March Friday, May 9
Our Walk today was wonderful ! Our basic group of eleven of us were joined by others along the way. We walked with a parent of a young man who suffers from PTSD. He apparently has had very little contact with others. His dad walked with us and attended our [...]

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More than 25 gathered in Utica on Wednesday evening for a pot-luck send-off supper, hosted by Mohawk Valley Peace Coalition,  Pax Christi, and the Unitarians. On Thursday morning the Marchers gathered in Clinton, NY, at the Clinton Green, covered by both TV and newspaper reporters. The Walk went through the village, up to Hamilton College [...]

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Colleen Kattau is signing in the background. Today went really well, about 20 people walking with us. We walked out of Dryden, and there was no rain (as had been expected). We had several people welcome us along the way. A photographer from the Cortland paper took photos and invited us to his home nearby  [...]

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