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Hometown History: August 14, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: Decline in Passenger Traffic—The number of travelers over the Delaware & Hudson lines is far below normal and the decrease is felt all over the system. Through-travel between Albany and Rouses Point, as reported on the June statement, shows a deplorable loss of 31 percent as compared with last year. The group of trains running between Albany and Rutland earned 23 percent less than they did last June. Between Albany and Binghamton, earnings are 15 percent off,…
August 14, 2025

Lasting Impressions: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’: a 400-Year-Long Conversation

Shakespeare wrote the tragedy “Hamlet” sometime around 1600 CE, a time of political uncertainty in England, as Queen Elizabeth I aged with no obvious heir. The Glimmer Globe Theatre’s production of “Hamlet,” directed by Michael Tamburrino, offers a chance to delve into what is widely considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest masterpieces, often placing at the top of lists of his best plays.…
August 7, 2025

Life Sketches: Green Eggs and Hmmm…

For several weeks I was gathering as many as 10 or 12 brown eggs a day until one late morning three of the eggs I collected turned out to be green. I thought maybe it was because of all the dandelion leaves the chickens were eating when I’d let them out to free range, but neighbors assured me that eating weeds wouldn’t do that.…
August 7, 2025

The Partial Observer: Local Boy Who Made Good

John is the quintessential “local boy who made good.” He founded and operated his own business, providing very well for himself and his family. He moved a few miles away from the family homestead to Wileytown Road, where he raised his family: one son and two daughters. Over the years, he added onto his property on and around Wileytown Road.…
August 7, 2025

Bound Volumes: August 7, 2025

160 YEARS AGO: Wives and Husbands—With a wife comes a certain loss of freedom, which is irksome to willful natures. This, a man, who is a very short-sighted creature, never thinks of until after the subject of his love is his. Waking thoroughly to the consciousness that he is a married man, he finds in his house a person who has an absolute claim on his attention, his time, his affection and his services. He is surrounded by new conditions.…
August 7, 2025

Hometown History: August 7, 2025

90 YEARS AGO: Political satire has a way of flourishing in spite of governmental opposition, and in Germany no edict of Adolf Hitler seems powerful enough to check the “underground” manufacture of pointed jibes at the ruler of the Reich. The story goes that Hitler went to see a movie incognito by himself and took his seat unobtrusively in the rear of the house. When the newsreel came around and Hitler’s picture was flashed on the screen, everyone stood up…
August 7, 2025

The Partial Observer: The Dismantling of Science

The EPA’s July 18 announcement of its plans to close the Office of Research and Development and the Health and Human Services restructuring plan that pushed out practically everyone staffing the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health give evidence that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. have rarely, if ever, met a polluter or workplace abuser they could not support, all politspeak notwithstanding.…
August 7, 2025
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