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 […]
by Chris Clemens Like so many of his fellow World War II comrades, when my grandfather returned home in 1945 he had done his share of traveling. He was ready to be at home and enjoy his own bed, his own kitchen table, his own garage, his own workshop. Part of a generation that valued […]
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 […]