by Chris Clemens An older, retired man walks in and sits at the counter in the next chair over. He nods first at me and then to the waitress who is already sliding a cup of coffee along that she poured as he walked in. He chats with another man for a couple minutes until a plate […]
by Chris Clemens For 2015 I’ve given myself a challenge. Each month I’ll be choosing a topic that I think is interesting enough and attempting to find 15 examples of it from my jaunts around New York. My inaugural ’15 for 2015′ was cobblestone buildings, and in keeping with the building theme, I’ve decided that […]
by Chris Clemens The English settlers who arrived in North America in the 1620’s established the concept of “Poor Laws” and essentially built a legal arrangement for government oversight and support for those not able to care for themselves. Whether you were someone who had a mental illness, a developmental disability or even were a […]
by Chris Clemens It’s no secret that the months between October and March can be brutal in Upstate. Single digit temperatures make going outside pretty tough to handle, particularly if you haven’t grown up in the region and acclimated to the inclement conditions. So, if you’re a college student who has to walk from building […]
by Chris Clemens One of my favorite activities is to take roads in New York I’ve never driven, turn up music loud and put all the windows down while putting forth my best effort to get lost and discover some new interesting thing I want to stop and take a picture of. An interesting mailbox, […]