by Chris Clemens There are dozens of grape varieties grown in the Finger Lakes region. Many of the more common grapes like Rieslings and Concords are well documented but there are lesser known varieties, too. Michael Warren Thomas, who has a weekly radio show about Finger Lakes wines, mentioned to me the Moore’s Diamond grape as […]
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 […]
by Michael Brewster Part One: “There’s an old Native American legend…” A Google search for “How did the Finger Lakes get their name?” will yield millions of hits, and many of them of them will relate some version of what Arch Merrill wrote in his 1951 book Slim Fingers Beckon: “There is an old Indian […]