by Michael Brewster Tekonwatonti and Molly Brant Much of the history of New York and its colonial beginnings center around the men of the time. However, for the indigenous Haudenosaunee of Upstate New York, women are just as important to their society and culture, if not moreso. This is the story of one Haudenosaunee woman, […]
by Chris Clemens This past month in particular, there’s been a lot of discussion in my social media channels about how 2016 has been terrible. I know there have been some difficult events this year. We lived through one of the most emotionally charged Presidential elections I’ve been alive to witness. We’ve had to grieve […]
by Chris Clemens Frank Winfield Woolworth of Rodman, New York first created the five-and-dime store idea after driving to New York City and buying up a bunch of random stuff, returning home and proceeding to sell out of everything he had bought in a single day. Later, on February 22, 1878, he set up his first ‘five cent store’ […]
Coffee Roasters of New York State I’m pretty passionate about a lot of things. One of those things is making lists and another is coffee. So, in early 2015 I got the idea stuck in my head that I should create a list of every single coffee roaster in New York State and begin sampling each […]
The following post about how the Finger Lakes was named is the second in a two part series. You can find Part 1 of this series here. by Michael Brewster Part Two… Earliest Colonizers If we can’t rely on “An Old Indian Legend” to tell us how the Finger Lakes got named, then we have […]