Glenwood is a small town with a lovely park right on Lake Minnewaska. We parked in the shade then Tony worked while I wandered downtown. I made some purchases from a specialty food store. The park was quiet, so I did get Catnip out on her leash. She got scared and wanted back in the van when some people approached to ask about the nearest Dairy Queen. She loved exploring and eating grass until then. The statue pictured below is Minnewaska, a fictional warrior maiden in a Victorian romance novel published in 1901 by Alice Thomson, a local who had an amazing education and many talents.

Belonging to Harvest Host is a wonderful excuse to spend the night at a winery, and this was a really nice one on the outskirts of Glenwood. We each had a flight to help choose which bottles to purchase, and we enjoyed thin-crust, wood-fired pizza while we played a hand of cribbage (I won). One of the wines I tried was named Castastrose – a once in a lifetime vintage for a once in a lifetime year. I had to ask about the event behind this wine. They had a doozy of a hail storm come in the fall just as grapes were starting to ripen. It looked like an advancing wall and left drifts of hail behind. It ruined cars in the parking lot, and stripped ripe grapes from the vines. Some of the unripened fruit survived. It all had to be hand-picked later as the vines were a mess, and three varieties were mixed to make this wine.