I don’t know where obsessions arise from, but as a kid I was really in to rocks. My parents even bought a rock tumbler one year so I could polish my own! To further support my habit, they made sure we visited Rock City Park in Olean, New York, in the southeastern corner of Cattaraugus […]
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve heard me mention the Buffalo IGers (“Instagrammers”). They’re a community of folks in Buffalo who enjoy taking photos and sharing them on Instagram. Some members of the group are younger, some are older. Some have wicked expensive camera equipment and some use only their smartphone. […]
As a young kid in school, we would regularly visit historical sites and museums. On those trips, it always seemed like the people giving us tours were….well….a lot older. And, to be fair, it does kind of make sense. History isn’t a huge money maker, and often times your local town historian is someone volunteering […]
This year I’ve committed myself to visit at least one new museum each month. Upstate New York has an incredibly long list of museums, so it shouldn’t be a difficult task. What I love about our museums collection is that there are so many small, lesser-known spaces dedicated to telling stories. This month I woke […]
As 2017 was the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal’s birth, it’s been on everyone’s mind more than usual. Most people are aware that the canal we know today is nothing near the size of the original. But, a lot of people don’t realize that this is actually the third version. In between the original […]