…How about free-range humans? This article from the U.K. confirms what many have suspected: the personal range of children has shrunk drastically over the last century. When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a [...]

While looking through photos on Flickr recently, I found myself coming across some absolutely stunning pictures of Syracuse and environs taken by various people.

A comment on Bob Niedt’s Store Front column from Sunday’s paper… “When I brought the Wal-Mart project awhile back and was talking to town officials, I said Wal-Mart coming to Camillus will drag a lot of traffic to Camillus Commons and Fairmount Fair, and will draw a lot of tenants that had not come to [...]

Just a quick observation on the report of the fatal accident last night at the corner of North Warren and James…

Today, June 12, is the so-called “upstate” federal public meeting over the NYRI issue, from 1 to 7 p.m. at the RIT Inn and Conference Center in Rochester. None of the news over the past week or so has been good for NYRI opponents.

Who killed the Genesee?

This review of a Romanian film called A Fost sau n-a fost? (Was there or wasn’t there?) in the NYT caught my eye. It’s a comedy about a TV personality who puts on a program to investigate whether the Romanian revolution of 1989 had any on-the-ground effects in his hometown. Was there a revolution, or [...]

This is skipping ahead a bit in the History of Fairmount, but I thought I would share this useless, though possibly briefly diverting, annotated Google map of street names in Fairmount. Many of them represent the typical suburban developer “themes” of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s — but in Fairmount Hills particularly, some slightly irregular [...]

Was I hacked? Did my database die? Or did my hosting company (the one I am going to shortly drop) just simply screw me? I don’t know and I don’t care, since I was planning to move this blog anyway from its very inappropriate home where it was never supposed to be in the first [...]

And here I thought my vacations were boring… 70 Wegmans in 4 days! The idea of visiting every Wegmans store began as a joke among the four, all of whom work at the chain’s Buffalo store on Amherst Street. Last fall, the crazy idea gave way to serious planning. The four friends, all in their [...]