The New York State Fair has a lot of competitions for kids, from dance to animal husbandry to even a spelling bee, but I wonder why they don’t hold a New York geography bee for kids at the fair. (Couldn’t be any more boring than some of the other stuff going on!) I […]

A New York Times story on disappearing regional foods has an interactive map dividing North America into “food nations.” We’re part of the Maple Syrup Nation, and some of our endangered foods include the Java chicken, Seneca hominy flint corn and the beautiful Cayuga Duck.

It seems that the Empire State might not be restored to its former glory after all.

How to argue about I-81 with maps.