Forty-one years ago, photographer Nathan Farb, of Jay, traveled to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a major cultural center and the third most-populated city of Russian after Moscow and St. Petersburg.Leonid Brezhnev had just been named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the ...
If you happened to be in Wilmington on the morning of the Monday before Thanksgiving and found yourself wondering who turned out the lights, I can tell you.Or maybe not. There are different theories.As I type this column, the event just happened. A very nice family came to buy a rug for their ...
CRANBERRY LAKE - In the fall of 1968, Leroy Peet returned home from the U.S. Army. He spent some time as a forklift operator for Adirondack Plywood, but he wasn't happy with the job. The following spring, he was tipped off about open interviews at the Newton Falls Paper Mill.It wasn't long ...
Like most young boys, I pretended I was at bat, just beyond the 3-point arc or on the goal line with the crowd on its feet. The fate of the game was in my hands. Sometimes I hit the homer or made the catch while falling out of the back of the end zone. Sometimes I didn't. Win or lose, the ...
How would you feel about advising your son or daughter to take pictures of snowbanks, ice on the lakes and winter activities so they may one day use them to illustrate what winter looked like to their grandchildren?That's the advice that Paul Smith's College professor of natural sciences Curt ...
The California wildfires are terrorizing me. They are changing my sleep patterns, flaring up in the back of my mind even when I'm focusing on other things, consuming my attention, taking up all the oxygen so that I can't think straight. People I love live there.Not that I'm trying to upstage ...