I’ve lived in Elmira, NY all my life, and I’m glad to say that it is starting to become a nice place to visit again. There used to be an amusement park here called Eldridge Lake that was in business since the early 1900’s, but it was dismantled in the late 1980’s. The park is starting to come back together, due to a lot of money and hard work from the community. Eldridge Park has an old-fashioned carousel again, and one of the horses is from the original Eldridge Park carousel from the early 1900’s. My mom and I walk around the walking path around the lake as often as we can. It’s a lot of fun during the summer time when the carousel is running. They have 1950’s music playing, 50’s era automobiles parked in front of the carousel, and popcorn for sale from a refurbished 1950’s era popcorn truck.

Of course, there’s also Mark Twain’s study in Elmira, which is a really cool thing to see. It’s a small open-windowed building that was given to Mark Twain by his sister and brother in law. He wrote a lot of his books there, and the study is still in great condition, sitting on the Elmira College Campus.