Since this writing was first published, the author has created an entirely new website dedicated to finding nonalcoholic options in the Upstate New York region. For more on nonacoholic options in the region, visit nonrocaholic. For the most updated list and a map around Cayuga Lake visit the Cayuga Lake Nonalcoholic Trail. by Chris Clemens […]
Since this writing was first published, the author has created an entirely new website dedicated to finding nonalcoholic options in the Upstate New York region. For more on nonacoholic options in the region, visit nonrocaholic. On the site you’ll find updated nonalcoholic trail maps, locally made NA options from Upstate New York, and more! by […]
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 […]
by Meredith Marsh 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 State. Don’t feel bad–as far as U.S. Presidents go, Millard Fillmore isn’t historians’ favorite either. […]