Wood burning fire pits create localized pockets of wood smoke that smell as much as the wood smoke from Canada, and the smell persists after a fire pit goes out, sometimes for several hours.…
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The climate-controlled storage area side of the barn will be up and functioning by this fall, so our Swart-Wilcox local collections of unique items will be safe and secure from the elements this winter.…
It is county fair season. A time I look forward to every year. This year more than most. Why? Because after a day at a fair, especially watching so many young people attend to and show their animals, it restores my sense of faith in this country’s inherent goodness and potential.…
Verna Everitt, Hyde Hall’s programs director, says “Great Expectations” fit the series as part of an exploration of the social effects of wealth disparity, and how that connects to Hyde Hall.…
210 YEARS AGO: The Difference! Lord Exmouth sails to the Mediterranean with a powerful fleet—pays from 500 to 1,000 dollars apiece for the release of Christian captives...…
135 YEARS AGO: News Items—The dancers at the Paris Opera—some of them—are paid $30,000 per annum. John B. Gough’s house is for sale. It has all the modern improvements except a wine cellar. A man drew a wagon weighing 520 pounds, eleven and a half miles in Mantus County, Ohio one day last week, winning a wager of $40.…
The Clark and Scriven Foundations and the Community Foundation of Otsego County are collaborating to ensure that their respective funding efforts are underwriting the county’s food pantries and meal programs year-round.…
160 YEARS AGO: The Freeman’s Journal is now about the oldest country newspaper in the State, and one of the oldest papers in the Union, having been established by the late Col. J.H. Prentiss in 1808.…
135 YEARS AGO: Case of Elopement reported in the Albany Express—Last Thursday afternoon a telegram was received at police headquarters from one Jacob Winne of Oneonta, requesting the arrest and detention of his wife Sally Winne and Lemuel Higgins, who had eloped together, and would arrive in this city on the afternoon train.…
150 YEARS AGO: Are lead pipes poisonous? The question of lead poisoning is attracting considerable attention at the present time. There has been a large and influential gathering of scientific gentlemen and representatives of the Water Boards of New York and Brooklyn, and delegates from the Board of Education of the former city at the Manhattan Lead Works, to witness tests and inquire into the merits of the lead encased block-tin pipe.…
