The Erie Canal changed the political and social fabric of a young American nation, not unlike the times we find ourselves in today. Historian Carol Sheriff explores many of those cultural themes in her award-winning book “The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862,” Sheriff renders a rich account of how the canal changed American life between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.…
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The CSO’s season theme, “The Orchestral Kaleidoscope,” reflects this philosophy perfectly. Like a symphony itself, it truly takes an entire community—musicians, board members, volunteers, donors, and audience members—working in harmony to create something greater than the sum of its parts.…
135 YEARS AGO: If your hay crop is large and you wish to feed it out on the farm, call at Dr. James’ when you come to the Fair, and have your horse’s teeth put in order. Chris Post says that his horses eat three times the amount they did before he had their teeth floated...…
110 YEARS AGO: The new processing creamery plant of the Sheffield Farms Slawson Decker company at Oneonta Plains is now practically completed. Though not as large as some of their many stations scattered throughout the rich farming sections of the state, none is more complete in detail or embodies more of...…
One Saturday morning in the early 1990s, when I was around 8 years old, my father and I kept to our tradition: he, a runner, would jog next to my bike as we wandered through the suburban streets of Murray, Utah. As I became stronger and older, we started exploring farther and farther from home.…
The Afghan families FFTA has focused on helping share a trait: Each has at least one woman activist who protested publicly against the Taliban in Afghanistan after they banned education for girls after the sixth grade and banned women from employment.…
Anyone who’s followed the steady progress of restorations at Hyde Hall—the National Historic Landmark in Cooperstown renowned for its neoclassical architecture and scenic views of Otsego Lake—can testify to the fact that this is a museum and cultural site that has truly reinvented itself.…
110 YEARS AGO: Infant mortality statistics for July made public show a decrease of 15 points from the rate of July 1914. The month of July this year recorded 844 deaths under one year as compared with 946 in July 1914...…
90 YEARS AGO: Thomas Jefferson said: “A free press has its evils, but a controlled debate is intolerable.” Democratic majority leader Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas says “The filibuster has disgusted the Senate and the country..."…
If I see an empty spot, I fill it. So what if it is impossible to get to the lone zucchini in the corner (which, by the way, I had to sneak in after being told NOT to plant any) without bushwhacking my way through the bushy, overbearing haricots verts overshadowing a row of lettuce, itself shadowed and obscured by another row of beans.…
