Most of the visitors to New York’s Finger Lakes come for world-class lakes and spectacular wines. Many undoubtedly overlook a historic church tucked away among farmhouses, vineyards and cottages on Bluff Point.
Most of the visitors to New York’s Finger Lakes come for world-class lakes and spectacular wines. Many undoubtedly overlook a historic church tucked away among farmhouses, vineyards and cottages on Bluff Point.
the explosion opened a two-mile hole, flooding more than 130,000 acres of farm land in neighboring missouri. when you look at that, what do you think? i m very sad. i look at that, and i don t have a home. reporter: marilyn nally s farm has been in her family for three generations. it would still be dry if the federal government hadn t blown up the lev yo. i feel like we re having to suffer for someone else. reporter: farmers ray and roy preston have 2,000 acres underwater. we always lived with the idea that someday they might have to blow it. the waters kept rising and we knew they would blow it. we don t like it, but you know, we have to accept it. reporter: the plan since 1928 has always been that if cairo, a city of about 15,000 at the time, was in danger of flooding the levee would be opened to save the city. but back then things were much different.