{"id":11276,"date":"2015-06-01T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2015-09-16T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:53:02","slug":"take-a-daytrip-to-medina-ny-with-the-young-urban-preservationists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/06\/take-a-daytrip-to-medina-ny-with-the-young-urban-preservationists\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Daytrip to Medina NY, with the Young Urban Preservationists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Landmark Society's Young Urban Preservationists and Slow Road Travel are bringing you Backroads &#038; Byways: Medina, the first in a series of daytrips to check out the roads less traveled and to explore historic places and exciting projects in small towns throughout the region. [PHOTO: Landmark Society of WNY]\" rel=\"lightbox-backroadsBywaysMedina\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-01.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Landmark Society's Young Urban Preservationists and Slow Road Travel are bringing you Backroads &#038; Byways: Medina, the first in a series of daytrips to check out the roads less traveled and to explore historic places and exciting projects in small towns throughout the region. [PHOTO: Landmark Society of WNY]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><i>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/01\/contributors\/#about-mike-governale\">Mike Governale<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>We all love Rochester but sometimes you just need to get out of town for a day, right? That&#8217;s why Landmark Society&#8217;s Young Urban Preservationists and Slow Road Travel are  bringing you <a href=\"http:\/\/landmarksociety.org\/yup\/\" target=\"new\">Backroads &#038; Byways: Medina <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>, the first in a series of daytrips to check out the roads less traveled and to explore historic places and exciting projects in small towns throughout the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a title=\"Bent's Opera House. Medina, NY. [PHOTO: Doug Kerr, Flickr]\" rel=\"lightbox-backroadsBywaysMedina\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-02.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Bent's Opera House. Medina, NY. [PHOTO: Doug Kerr, Flickr]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the historic Erie Canal village of Medina, you\u2019ll get a behind-the-scenes look at in-progress building rehabs, a completed loft conversion, and see how Medina\u2019s young entrepreneurs are breathing new life into this small community. We\u2019ll end the day with live music at a truly unique open-air venue (where you can purchase locally made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mead\" target=\"new\">mead <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"R.H. Newell Shirt Factory. Medina, NY. [PHOTO: Keith Ewing, Flickr]\" rel=\"lightbox-backroadsBywaysMedina\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/backroads-and-byways-medina-03.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"R.H. Newell Shirt Factory. Medina, NY. [PHOTO: Landmark Society of WNY]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHighlights include: <a href=\"http:\/\/810meadworks.com\/\" target=\"new\">810 Meadworks <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> (including live music at an amazing historic open air venue behind the former R.H. Newell Shirt Factory), a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing rehab of <a href=\"http:\/\/bentshall.org\/bents-opera-house\/\" target=\"new\">Bent\u2019s Opera House <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> and a tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orleanshub.com\/news2015\/Heritage-Hero-Andrew-Meier-revived-Newell-building.htm\" target=\"new\">completed conversion of the R.H. Newell Shirt Factory <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> building.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n<h3>Tickets:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/landmarksociety.org\/yup\/\" target=\"new\">Order your tickets here before midnight, June 6 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>$20 tickets cover travel (we\u2019re going old school and renting a big yellow school bus!) and dinner. Drinks are up to you. <\/p>\n<p>For more info contact <a href=\"mailto:cmeives@landmarksociety.org\">Caitlin Meives<\/a> at The Landmark Society (585.546.7029 x27).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Governale We all love Rochester but sometimes you just need to get out of town for a day, right? That&#8217;s why Landmark Society&#8217;s Young Urban Preservationists and Slow Road Travel are bringing you Backroads &#038; Byways: Medina , the first in a series of daytrips to check out the roads less traveled and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3095,204,242,114,2294],"tags":[3412,3411,962,3403,3410,2205,3611],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-events","category-rochester-destinations","category-rochester_news","category-urban-exploration-2","tag-810-meadworks","tag-bents-opera-house","tag-landmark-society-of-western-new-york","tag-medina","tag-r-h-newell-shirt-factory","tag-slow-road","tag-young-urban-preservationists-yup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11311,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}