Northern Spy

Three nights ago (Wednesday, November 1), and the night before that, I had a Northern Spy apple for dessert.
The Northern Spy was first cultivated in nearby East Bloomfield. In fact, I suppose the thing to say is it was developed here.
There are three Bloomfields: first is the Town of West Bloomfield, where we live; second is the Town of East Bloomfield, home of the Northern Spy apple; and third is the village of Bloomfield, which is in the Town of East Bloomfield.
“Towns” in New York are the equivalent of “Townships” in Jersey. Don’t know what they are in Delaware. They govern the area of the town, zone, collect taxes, plow roads, etc. A “Town” usually has a small assemblage of houses — like up the street — around which it is based.
Some Towns, like East Bloomfield or nearby Victor, have a large village at their center, and often that village is its own government entity separate from the Town.
West Bloomfield doesn’t.
The Town of Canandaigua has the City of Canandaigua at its center.
School districts are separate. The East Bloomfield school district serves West Bloomfield. So we pay East Bloomfield school-taxes. West Bloomfield once had a school, but now it is the American Legion.
The school Linda attended was the Campbell (“CAMP-bell;” not the soup) Central School in Campbell. Thurston had a tiny one-room school, but now it is part of the church.
Campbell Central School had all twelve grades, and classes might be 100 freshmen, but only 25 graduating. Many dropped out to help on the farm.
Campbell Central School merged recently with another district about 2-3 miles away.
The entire Town of Canandaigua is served by Canandaigua city-schools.
When we first moved here the Village of Holcomb was attached to East Bloomfield Village. It broke off long ago over some economic dispute.
Holcomb was an economic center on its own. The famed Peanut-Line went diagonally across the main intersection, and though stub-ended eons ago, railroad service continued to Holcomb, to a large grain-elevator which became Agway.
The stub-end abandoned in the ‘70s, and the Agway was torn down recently. Holcomb has reunited with Bloomfield.
A fairly large post-office was built in Holcomb, and our mail comes from it. West Bloomfield is 14585; East Bloomfield doesn’t have a zip-code; and our mail comes from 14469, the Holcomb post-office.
Holcomb no longer exists; the viable address is Bloomfield.
I don’t think the original village of Bloomfield even has a post-office.
I wasn’t that impressed with the Northern Spy. We bought them because they were still crisp; whereas everything else was going soft.
It tasted too much like a Delicious; i.e. not tart enough.