Another view of the Mohawk River bridge
Found among my great grandmother’s keepsakes. I don’t know how old I was, maybe 8 or 9, when I wrote this card. I had tried to fit my message on […]
Found among my great grandmother’s keepsakes. I don’t know how old I was, maybe 8 or 9, when I wrote this card. I had tried to fit my message on […]
Schenectady and what is now the village of Scotia were populated at almost the same time, back around 1662. In fact, Alexander Lindsay Glen held an even earlier grant to […]
One last look at long-gone Glenotia Park, and a tragedy that happened there on July 4, 1915. Adolph Held, owner of the Guarantee Bed Spring Company and the Guarantee Polishing […]
People often ask why the papers don’t print the good things that happen in the community (or they did when they still read newspapers). Well, here we have an excellent […]
News came this week that “Glenotia Island” is up for sale (for a mere $91,000). Growing up in Scotia, I never heard it called “Glenotia” — if anyone had a […]
Some of the grand old homes and buildings around Albany still have lovely ornamental rails and fences, and there’s a good chance many of them were made by Simeon Cunliff, […]
Another advertisement from the 1858 Albany City Directory, this one for Johnson & Offenheiser at the bottom of State Street, where they dealt in foreign and domestic fruit, eggs, poultry, […]
From 1858, an ad for the Marble Pillar Restaurant, ironically using a typeface meant to resemble wooden logs, not marble. “This old and popular House has recently undergone thorough repairs; […]
Ignatius Jones’s “Random Recollections of Albany” included strong and yet confusing praise for a figure I hadn’t heard of before, one Solomon Southwick. Southwick was born into a Newport, Rhode […]
English: An etching of Dutch-style rowhouses in Albany, New York, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Continuing with Ignatius Jones’s 1850 recollections of Albany before it had grown into a mid-19th […]