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,...
Albany’s only “garage-IN” hotel!
Much has been written about the demise (and hopefully redevelopment) of Albany’s Wellington Hotel. Saving the facade of the Wellington,...
The city gone by
It’s hard to imagine how different the Albany of the past was from the Albany of today, how different the...
Albany Girl Weds Prince of Spain
As I was preparing the new section of my website, Torn From Yesterday’s Headlines!, I was organizing a set of...
Albany, Dat’s De Only Town Looks Good to Me
The things you run into when you’re cleaning up your hard drive. I’ve been holding on to this for a...
Where have all the bonnet bleachers gone?
I started out on a hunt for information on a local building that’s undergoing demolition, and finding nothing on the...
National Savings Bank
At Howard and South Pearl Streets, the magnificent old National Savings Bank tower (and the much less magnificent corner of...
Bab-O
It was one of those things that happens sometimes, a random comment that, when thought through, makes me realize how...
Walking barefoot through the lumber district
Is not at romantic as it sounds. Started the day with a bike ride down by the river, where I...