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December 8 2015

Off The Beaten Sculpture Park Path in Horseheads, New York

by Chris Clemens I recently had the opportunity to spend some time wandering what is now believed to be one of the largest sculpture gardens in the country, right in Horseheads, New York! When comparing the 40 acres that the display rests on, it may seem at first that competing with some of the better-known parks […]

This Day In Upstate History

1829 Sam 'The Yankee Leaper' Patch dies while jumping from High Falls on the Genesee River in Rochester.

1832 Ephraim Goss, a Justice of the Peace; colonel of the State Militia; recurring term Supervisor of the Town of Pittsford; Clerk of Monroe County from 1838 to 1840; and a member of the New York State Senate (28th D.), marries Margaret Porter.

1897 Dr. Susan Ann Edson, originally from Fleming, New York in Cayuga County, dies in Washington D.C. Edson is one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States, and was personal friend and physician to President Garfield and his wife Lucretia. She was buried the day following her death in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington D.C.

1956 Charlie Baker, a modern American politician and 72nd Governor of Massachusetts, is born in Elmira, Chemung County.