by Chris Clemens I’m a sucker for garage sales, flea markets, and second hand shops. They’re usually a great way to discover regional artifacts. While walking through a garage sale in my Rochester neighborhood last year, I discovered a shoe box of random items. Typically, a box of random stuff will have at least one […]
by Chris Clemens Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911. Though her television persona on I Love Lucy would capture the hearts of Americans and her fame would bring her to live all over the country, her love for her Chautauqua County hometown never waned. Ball regularly visited her childhood […]
by Chris Clemens In 1913, when Edward D. Putnam became the first curator of the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC)–then, Rochester Municipal Museum, Robert Ripley of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! was playing for the NY Giants. Neither could have imagined what their futures would hold. They certainly couldn’t have anticipated each other’s work […]
by Chris Clemens There is a distinct change in scenery while driving Route 17 and passing from the Southern Tier into the Catskills. Waterways seem to lazily meander along each side of the highway. Mountains cast shadows even with the sun at its highest point, and valleys seem to stretch on forever. Nearer to Middletown, […]
by Chris Clemens I get a fair amount of emails from people asking all sorts of questions. Normally, the answers are best served by a direct email, but occasionally someone writes in with a topic that I think other readers would really benefit from seeing the response to. Like, this one from Steve S. of […]
