How Dare You Want More?
Bleachers brings the Jersey Shore sound (including not one, but two saxophones) to SNL. Jack Antonoff also brings his Dad…
Aspiring to Easier Living at Manitoga
Recently we visited Manitoga, a National Historic Landmark that is the studio and home of industrial designer Russel Wright. A…
The Vanderbilt Mansion In Hyde Park, New York
If this 54 room home looks a little bit small for something with both “Vanderbilt” and “Mansion” in its name,…
Art and Design of the New York Central Railroad
The other fab Jazz Age exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art is Romancing the Rails: Train Travel…
Jazz Age Adventurers: Fashion Edition
At the Albany Institute of History and Art: Fashionable Frocks of the 1920s showcases the adventurous dresses of the Jazz…
Rapp Barrens & Six Mile Waterworks
A walk around the Six Mile Waterworks (created to supply drinking water to the city of Albany in the 1850s)…
New York Bricks Go Boutique
Here’s a brief history of the New York brickmaking industry from the New York Times. New York did not have…
Attractive Ruins at Franny Reese
Pictures from a visit last autumn to Franny Reese State Park in New York. The sun-dappled ruins are the former…
Massive and Free Archaeology Book on the Onondaga Iroquois
The New York State Museum has just published James W. Bradley’s new book, Onondaga and Empire; An Iroquoian People in…
Buy Bing’s* Hudson Valley House and Make Holiday Inn Real
A colonial farmhouse in the Hudson Valley that, realtors say, was once owned by Bing Crosby is for sale for…