Schenectady: Two Museum Gems
Two small but fascinating museums in Schenectady, New York offer a day's worth of information and education. One's for science, the other for history.
Two small but fascinating museums in Schenectady, New York offer a day's worth of information and education. One's for science, the other for history.
Olana, in Hudson NY, was home to Frederic Church, one of the most famous painters of the Hudson River School.
Long forgotten except in Schenectady's science museum, the little GE electric car that could, long before Prius and Tesla. Here's its story.
For Samantha, a huge baseball fan, a visit to baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown was a dream come true, and one she shares with us.
While touring New York City, Ottoman came upon this iconic skyscraper.
History, photography, history of photography, all rolled in to one.
An empty train station on a cold day. A great chance to take some photos
Sometimes you don't have to travel very far to get that amazing photo.
Rockefeller center at Christmas is one of those things that you just have to say "To heck with crowds!" and come to see.
It's clearly winter now at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with only a few days left until Christmas, and only the hardiest of crops remaining—but those include lovely piles of scallions with their roots showing, and plenty of turnips, beets and carrots. Not to mention lots of apples of many varieties (no, those aren't tomatoes in the boxes) as well as meats, baked goods and specialty foods. And, of course, it's the season for some non-edibles as well, in the form of holiday...
Walking to work, I encountered this scene
Ithaca, New York is famed for its colleges and universities, and for the gorges and waterfalls just adjacent to its center, as streams make their way to Lake Cayuga.
Every year the NY Botanical Gardens turns the Haupt Conservatory into a model train holiday fantasy.
A travelers wanders at home, trying to view his neighborhood as he views others, and wondering how others see his.
Visiting the former immigration center, Samantha finds it was both a new start for many and the end of a dream for others.