by Chris Clemens You’ve likely seen the Remington Arms plant in Ilion from the New York State Thruway. It’s on the south side of the highway, just west of the exit you’d use for Cooperstown. Ilion appears from a traveling distance like many Mohawk Valley towns. You’ll recognize a large industrial plant surrounded by residential […]
by Michael Brewster. In 1877 when William West Durant set about building a permanent camp on a small peninsula on the south side of Long Point in Raquette Lake, he might have thought he was creating something of a legacy, as wealthy men of his generation might have done in any aspect of their lives. […]
by Chris Clemens Convicts of the Victorian Era found themselves subject to a number of hard labor jobs, both to pass time and to serve the community. It’s pretty well known that one of those jobs was busting up rocks to prep stone for construction jobs. They’d break up rocks with a hammer sometimes up […]
by Chris Clemens The newest coffee beans to have been put through each of my brewing implements comes from Washington County. Lucy Jo’s Coffee Roastery is a small, family run operation based in Hebron, New York, but their fan base is growing quickly. Their Business Alan and Shelley Monder started the business in 2012 after […]