by Chris Clemens Hydesville Memorial Park is located on Hydesville Road just a couple miles Northwest of the center of the canaltown today known as Newark, NY. Today there exists only a stone base where a house once sat, and that base is surrounded by a protective outbuilding. It’s rare that visitors are allowed to […]
by Chris Clemens I have amassed a pretty decent collection of New York history items and bygones. None of it is really worth very much, but for me there’s value in finding an old Iroquois Brewery bottle opener at a flea market or a transit token at a garage sale and saving it from being lost […]
Cartwright’s Maple Tree Inn is an iconic Western New York destination that is only open a few months out of the year. People flock from far and wide to visit for their endless buckwheat pancakes and famous maple syrup. by Chris Clemens Like so many of his fellow World War II comrades, when my grandfather […]
intro by Chris Clemens For 2015 I gave myself a challenge. Each month I’ll be choosing a topic and attempting to find 15 examples of it from my jaunts around New York. My inaugural ’15 for 2015′ was cobblestone buildings and the second was spiritual sites. March has been way busier for me than I anticipated, so […]
by Chris Clemens While we’ve been either loving or hating this winter, the Sugar, Red and Black Maple trees of Upstate New York have been using the frigid months to store the starches that in some cases have already begun to change to sugars. As farmers around our region tap the trees and extract the […]