Couch Olympics
This day calls for a couch and some Olympics. Long drives just wear me out, especially when a large-scale mattress...
Photographic evidence
Image via Wikipedia The New York State Museum is currently holding two excellent photographic exhibits. The larger of the two...
A tip o’ the hat
The myth of the magical efficiency of the marketplace can generally be discredited with two words: “customer service.” As our...
Raised by Geese
Every now and then it’s important that we remember the first nursery school teacher ever raised by geese.
Albany Newsies, 1910
Back in February 2010, I wrote a little bit on what I could find about the lives of the newsies...
Know your Presidents!
Image by carljohnson via Flickr In honor of Presidents’ Day, our generation’s way of efficiently ignoring our country’s heritage of...
A Tourist’s Guide through Albany
Among the delights and pleasures of the worldwide web, Google Books, and public domain is the ability to discover, dissect,...