The following post about how Catharine’s Town, New York was named is a guest submission by regular Exploring Upstate contributor Michael Brewster The Story of Catharine’s Town, New York Because only one battle and a handful of skirmishes were fought in the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, it is relegated to the dusty […]
Protecting intellectual material can be a bit of a precarious plight. One intellectual’s creation could be interpreted and then slightly changed (or not) and then published as something brand new. Nearly everyone has heard the iconic guitar riff from Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’, but for decades Jimmy Page has been accused of ripping the melody […]
Bee stings cause on average about 50 deaths per year in the United States and though that number sounds high, medical professionals agree that bee stings that lead to fatalities are quite rare. That’s precisely the reason that a historic landmark sign on Route 21 in Hopewell Center (just a few miles northeast of Canandaigua) has […]
The majority of the labor team responsible for the construction of Erie Canal were immigrants straight from Ireland. Once the canal was finished and the Irish were looking to settle, Syracuse became a natural choice because of its central location and access to the canal itself. Because so many of those families hailed from the County […]
The following post about how Horseheads, New York was named is a guest submission by regular Exploring Upstate contributor Michael Brewster The Valley of the Horses’ Heads It begins, as so many of these things do, with a trip to a brewery. My brother and I were at Watkins Glen International one August for the […]