Write-up: Walt Pillar
Leader: Walt Pillar
Co-Leader: Madonna Fellows

16 of us biked 23 miles from Cherry Valley to Middlefield and back on a sunny but extremely windy (15+mph) day.

  We stopped for a lunch break at the Middlefield Historical Association which is an 1850s era schoolhouse. A member of the Association just happened to be there and let us inside to see the facility.
The after-ride refreshments were at the Tryon Inn who opened the bar just for the Tramp n’ Trailers.

From Jim W.

Cherry Valley has a lot of history. The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Iroquois forces on a fort and the village of Cherry Valley in central New York on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It has been described as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the war. A mixed force of Loyalists, British soldiers, Seneca and Mohawks descended on Cherry Valley, whose defenders, despite warnings, were unprepared for the attack. During the raid, the Seneca in particular targeted non-combatants, and reports state that 30 such individuals were slain, in addition to a number of armed defenders. One of the little known skirmishes of the Revolutionary War.
Today the Cherry Valley is a tourist attraction and an artsy town catering to the Glimmerglass Opera crowd. Thanks to Walt and Madonna for a very enjoyable ride.