I just learned that a local pub, Tin and Lint, is where Don Mclean wrote 'American Pie'. That's pretty cool.
Posted by Kevin at March 26, 2006 09:25 PM...and them good old boys were drinkin' Whiskey and Rye...
Posted by: Justin Cavnor on March 27, 2006 9:38 AMI need to go there one day. Suzy went on Saturday night. She said she didn't see a plaque or anything, but it was also busy. I may go in one day and ask where he was sitting.
So, things about Saratoga Springs which are interesting that I know:
* the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in the United States, the Travers Stakes, is held here.
* Potato Chips were invented here
* Don Mclean wrote American Pie here
* A bunch of revolutionary war stuff happened here, and the Battle of Saratoga was some sort of 'turning point'.
* U.S. Grant wrote his memoirs here (up the road from me).
Hmmm.. I think that's all I know, or remember right now.
Posted by: Kevin on March 27, 2006 9:58 AM