
Turnings by Robert Gessner
I understand in the schools today they call it general technology. Before that, industrial arts. And when I was in grammar school, it was…
Read MoreI understand in the schools today they call it general technology. Before that, industrial arts. And when I was in grammar school, it was…
Read MoreCortland, like so many upstate areas, blossomed and prospered because of New York’s fertile farmlands. From their first cash crop, potash, settlers who trickled…
Read MoreWhich of these were invented or perfected in Ontario County? A) cabbage harvester; B) Traminette grapes and wine; C) Empire and Northern Spy apples;…
Read MoreIn 1894, with his Cornell law degree in hand, Sherman Moreland returned home to Van Etten, in northeastern Chemung County, poised for a career…
Read More“Paul Middlebrook took me up on a flight one afternoon in Dave Shaw’s restored 1943 Stearman. I suggested that we fly low over Hemlock…
Read More“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain It’s a pity Mark Twain and Eileen Collins never…
Read MoreThe Genesee Valley Greenway is a trail following a corridor comprised primarily of old, smoothed-out railways alongside the old Genesee Canal bed. We found…
Read MoreIt had been quite a while since I had been in Cortland County. My memory of that trip was that of rising hillsides and…
Read MoreHow do you improve upon an already much-loved 1880 stone castle on the shores of Seneca Lake? That’s the question the Reeder family pondered…
Read More“If you like Corvettes, you’ve got to like ice cream,” explained Bob Fleck, who, with his wife Sheila, is a three-year member of the…
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