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Quote of the Day
“Every person has a story and you just have to ask.” – Eleven-year-old Eli Boardman of Boulder, Co., editor/publisher of his own community newspaper, the Boardman Camera, 200 editions old and still...
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NewsClips: An Inspector Calls!
I never knew my paternal grandfather Raymond Haigney (1891-1940), as I mentioned recently when describing his final census appearance in 1940. But I knew that at the time he died, he worked for the New...
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NewsClips: Things Were Different Then.
From the Albany Evening Journal, Watervliet news section, Saturday, May 3, 1902: A meeting will be held this evening by the old members of the Oswald Hose Company. The meeting will be held for the...
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An Unimportant Story
Long before I landed a job at the newspaper that was his home base, I just loved Roger Ebert. Toiling away on a series of night news desks, I sneaked peeks at his film reviews on the entertainment wire...
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Wordless Wednesday: Believe it? Not? Really?
Meet my great-uncle George. The guy with the beer, not the guy with the basketball. Naturally. This panel ran during the height of the Ripley’s craze of the Depression years, when readers from all over...
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NewsClips: Oh, Come ON.
This NewsClip has nothing to do with my ancestors; it just happened to be at the top of a page that did. But the headline was an eyecatcher: BELIEVE MICE CAUSED $3,000 WHITESTONE FIRE [Aside: Don't you...
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Amanuensis Monday: The Subway Song
You might remember my great-uncle George Rudroff (1870-1940). George was a man of distinction — a professional beer brewer; a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! topic; an aspiring playwright. He was also a...
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Chart Fun: Migration Patterns
Via The New York Times, here’s nifty interactive data to play with: a look at migration patterns within the United States since 1900. State by state, this graphic offers a snapshot of where its...
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New: Death Notices from Lansingburgh, NY
Ed. Note: This blog would be missing huge chunks of family stories without the work of the indefatigable Troy Irish Genealogy Society of Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y. The project teams of TIGS...
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The Bystanders’ Tale, With Second Thoughts
Kitty Genovese, rest her soul, would be 80 years old this July. Instead, she ran into a serial rapist-murderer on her way home from work on this day in 1964, and became a symbol. The influential New...
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