Okay, first — apologies for the headline.\u00a0 I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n
Now on to the cool part.\u00a0 Check out this fascinating article in the Syracuse Post-Standard<\/a> about the weird collaboration between Ed Leary — a Tupper Lake probation officer who passed away in 2005 — and Skaneatles architect Andy Ramsgard.<\/p>\n For 12 years, Leary and close friend Jimmy Bombard lugged concrete blocks up the 20-acre property. With little outside help, they built the four-story castle by hand.<\/p>\n After Leary’s death, the castle sat untouched until last October, when Ramsgard’s wife, Sherie, read a story about the property in The Post-Standard. The couple drove out to see the castle that week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ramsgard is now continuing work on the castle, and he describes Leary’s design and construction of the structure as “brilliant.”<\/p>\n “This is not a project I ever would have started,” Ramsgard said. “I never would have gone into the woods to build a castle. But this story intrigued me. I may not get to write the ending, but I get to write the middle of it.”<\/p>\n So, what’s the moral of the story he’s writing?<\/p>\n “When life gives you cinder blocks,” he said, “you make a castle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Go to the Post-Standard<\/a> to see some great sketches and photographs of the project.\u00a0 And see a full photo gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, first — apologies for the headline.\u00a0 I couldn’t resist. Now on to the cool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}