Booze and Fast Cars

As if this area didn't have enough neat things already, it also has lots of booze and fast cars.  There are vineyards, winery, and distilleries galore.  And there are classic car and race car related things everywhere too.  Watkins Glen has car shaped road signs and plaques in the sidewalks.

 The first weekend we were here, there was a Classic Car event.  I didn't grab many pictures of the cars because the area was so congested, it made it hard to drive, let alone snap pictures.  Aric got to stand by some other beauties at the library one day.

 From Watkins Glen Chamber of Commerce website: The community recently celebrated its 60^th anniversary of road racing. The checkered flag first dropped here in 1948 … a time when man and machine used the village streets and hillsides for its race course. Today, Watkins Glen International hosts a full calendar of international motor racing events on a world-class raceway. The original racetrack has been recognized on the National Register of Historic Places … the Village celebrates its road racing heritage each year with the Watkins Glen Vintage Grand Prix Festival…where the cars return to streets for a day of racing on the original course.

 And their information about the agriculture here: 
Seneca Lake provides the ideal climatic environment for the areas wine-making enterprises and we lay claim to being the second largest wine producing region in the United States … second only to Napa Valley.

 Over 700 feet deep, Seneca Lake’s glacial “lake effect” shelters the lush vineyards that flank her shores.

 Retaining residual summer warmth in the winter and winter’s cold in the spring, the vineyards receive protection from disastrous spring frosts during grape formation and early fall frosts before the harvest.

 In 2005 the area boasted 42 wineries on Seneca Lake … currently, more than 50 wineries, of the over 90 in the Finger Lakes region, open their doors to visitors from all over the world.

 Beautiful, just beautiful!