The following post about Millard Fillmore is a guest submission by Meredith Marsh of Penn Yan, New York Millard Fillmore is not the most highly revered of U.S. Presidents. In fact, it’s possible you didn’t realize he existed, let alone that he is one of only four U.S. Presidents born and raised in New York […]
In the first few decades that the United States were burying our deceased, it was primarily done in church-owned cemeteries or small rural family plots. The introduction of the concept of a ‘Rural Cemetery’ owned by a municipality was first introduced in the 1700’s in England, but nothing became reality until 1804 when Pere Lachais […]
If you’ve been let down by your wish results after blowing out birthday candles or tossing a penny in a fountain, you still have some options left for winning that lottery jackpot. Somewhere up in Canada a while back, the tradition of leaving one’s shoes up in a tree after making a wish became a […]
The following post about Town Line, NY is a guest submission by regular Exploring Upstate contributor Michael Brewster You might think that The Last Town in the Confederacy would be in Tennessee or Missouri or some dusty forgotten western corner of Texas, and you’d be… Wrong. Town Line, New York, a little hamlet outside of Buffalo […]
We all know of course that the “Buffalo Chicken Wing” was first invented at the Anchor Bar in 1964. Since then, countless iterations have popped out of fryers all over New York and even other parts of the country. I always think it’s fun(ny) to order the ‘wings’ when I’m traveling and see what kind of […]