by Chris Clemens Stretching about 40 miles in length, Cayuga Lake is the longest of the collection and also the second largest in volume and surface area. It features one of the two islands found in the the Finger Lakes Region and is hugely popular with boaters. The City of Ithaca sits at the bottom […]
by Chris Clemens The Finger Lakes Region is known throughout the country as one of the top wine producing regions, and for good reason. We have a myriad of really fantastic winemakers, brewers and distillers who are doing great things to put New York on the culinary map. It also happens to be one of […]
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. […]