What’s In a Number? Wine Scores and the Finger Lakes
When searching through a wine shop or an online store, one is bound to come across all kinds of numbers pertaining to wine, from…
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Warm Weather Reading for All Ages
Summer is the ideal time to go on a fictional journey or share a fantasy with a favorite child through a book. Sitting with…
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Time to Fire Up the Grill
I grew up a “lake kid.” When it was nice out you couldn’t get me out of the water from sunup to sundown. I…
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The Seneca Among the Finger Lakes
For more than 10,000 years prior to European arrival, the Finger Lakes region was home to the Haudenosaunee (Ho-den-o-SAW-nee), a group of Native American…
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Take a Walking Tour of a Model Village
Clifton Springs has long been identified with healthy living. Early settlers, like the Native Americans before them, drank and bathed in its mineral waters….
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Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park
Perched atop a Canandaigua sun-bathed hill on the estate known as “Sonnenberg” (German for “sunny hill”) is a 40-room Queen Anne-style mansion. New York…
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Running Away to Home
There is a homing mechanism instinctive in much of nature that draws creatures back to a place. So it is with me when my…
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Of the Earth
Ever since she was young, KJ Hunter-Neff has been fascinated with the world around her. She has always been enchanted by the notion that…
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Letters
High-speed rail could be a very mixed blessing for citizens of Upstate New York, which is already overburdened with property taxes. Although I welcome…
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Hornell, the Maple City
Known as the “Maple City” for its many maple trees, Hornell is tucked quietly in the rolling hills of the Canisteo Valley. To some,…
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