If it’s autumn along the Genesee, it’s apple time, cider time, and fry-cake time. For anyone who’s lived in Western New York, the familiar sight of bushel baskets of apples, … Continue reading The Glen Iris Orchard Company
Crime Along the Genesee: The Bertha Kingsley Shooting
The news is filled with senseless crimes—road rage that turns deadly, an argument that results in someone being shot, and random assaults. But it’s nothing new, and the story of … Continue reading Crime Along the Genesee: The Bertha Kingsley Shooting
The Amazing Rise and Fall of Hulbert Harrington Warner and His Safe Cures
America’s love affair with “natural” remedies and supplements is certainly nothing new. Over 140 years ago, store shelves were loaded with remedies, tonics, and elixirs advertised to cure everything from … Continue reading The Amazing Rise and Fall of Hulbert Harrington Warner and His Safe Cures
Dr. Edwin G. Munn: Genesee Country’s First Ophthalmologist
Most of us regularly visit our “eye doctor” once a year for a checkup, and consider cataract surgery a rite of passage in the aging process. Laser surgeries and other … Continue reading Dr. Edwin G. Munn: Genesee Country’s First Ophthalmologist
The Noted Musicians of Castile
This month’s story is a personal one and part of my maternal grandmother’s family history, dating back almost 100 years to the time of the Great Depression. It’s a story … Continue reading The Noted Musicians of Castile
Riding the Stagecoach Along the Genesee
Just mentioning the word “stagecoach” likely conjures up images of vintage western movies featuring desperate gangs of robbers holding up passengers, or a high-speed chase across the desert with Indians … Continue reading Riding the Stagecoach Along the Genesee
Crime Along the Genesee: Murder in the Cemetery
It was an ordinary Saturday when seventeen-year-old Anna Schumacher asked her mother for permission to visit her father’s and sister’s graves on August 7, 1909. The young woman wanted to … Continue reading Crime Along the Genesee: Murder in the Cemetery
In the Line of Duty: Lieutenant Thomas Boyd and Sergeant Michael Parker
Part Two The first-person accounts from the diaries of officers with General Sullivan give us a front-row seat to the gruesome scenes these men found as they advanced to Little … Continue reading In the Line of Duty: Lieutenant Thomas Boyd and Sergeant Michael Parker
In the Line of Duty: Lieutenant Thomas Boyd and Sergeant Michael Parker
Part One If you’re familiar with the drive on NYS Route 39 between Perry and Geneseo, you’ll know about the Boyd-Parker Park just outside of Cuylerville on the south side … Continue reading In the Line of Duty: Lieutenant Thomas Boyd and Sergeant Michael Parker
Scales, Shape Notes, and Singing Schools
Early in the 19th century, as villages dotted the landscape along the Genesee River and Western New York, churches sprang up, and residents organized according to Protestant doctrinal persuasions—Presbyterian, Baptist, … Continue reading Scales, Shape Notes, and Singing Schools
