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Albert Benton Pullman: Gilded Age Entrepreneur

December 9, 2025 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Simon Cordery’s Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of Albert Benton Pullman (Cornell University Press, 2025) illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman (1828-1893).

The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman (1831-1897) and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips to show them off. In those heady early days, he met national business and political leaders and hired the first Pullman porters. [Read more…] about Albert Benton Pullman: Gilded Age Entrepreneur

How Winter is Changing in the Tug Hill Region

March 31, 2025 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Tug Hill receives the greatest average snowfall totals in New York State. In Harold Samson’s book Tug Hill Country; Tales from the Big Woods (1971) he wrote “Tug Hill is, and always has been, noted for its winter snows… In winter, the Tug Hill plateau becomes a vast wilderness of white; favorite playground of snowmobilers and other winter sports enthusiasts.”

An economic study in 2021 estimated that 34,254 unique snowmobile users ride Tug Hill’s trails each year, bringing in nearly $81.6 million in sales from snowmobile activity. A new study by the Tug Hill Commission hopes to better understand how our warming climate will affect the region and its winter sports industry in the years to come. [Read more…] about How Winter is Changing in the Tug Hill Region

Man Dies in Adirondack Rail Trail Snowmobile Accident

February 5, 2025 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

New York State Police are investigating a deadly snowmobile accident that occurred on the Adirondack Rail Trail in the Town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, NY, in the early afternoon of Saturday, February 1st. A snowmobiler had crashed close to the trail’s intersection with McMaster Road, known as McMaster’s Crossing, near McCauley Pond. [Read more…] about Man Dies in Adirondack Rail Trail Snowmobile Accident

58 Acres Added to Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area

December 6, 2024 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently acquired fifty-eight acres that are now part of Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area (WMA), bringing the total acreage of the WMA to 8,956. The WMA is located in the towns of Albion, Williamstown, Parish, and Amboy in Oswego County and has generally flat terrain. [Read more…] about 58 Acres Added to Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area

More Than A Dozen Rescue Missions Over Busy Fall Weekend in New York

October 8, 2024 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers launched more the a dozen rescue missions from Friday, October 3rd through Sunday, October 6th, bringing several unprepared and injured hikers out of New York’s back woods, locating a lost dog and fighting two wildfires. What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of these recent missions. [Read more…] about More Than A Dozen Rescue Missions Over Busy Fall Weekend in New York

Salmon River Fish Hatchery: Supplying New York’s Salmonid Fishery

October 31, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Built in 1980, the Salmon River Fish Hatchery specializes in raising Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead, and brown trout.

The hatchery was constructed to revive and enhance the Great Lakes fishery and now provides most of the fish for the multi-million dollar Lake Ontario salmonid fishery. [Read more…] about Salmon River Fish Hatchery: Supplying New York’s Salmonid Fishery

Battle of Pine Knob Focus of 154th NY Descendants Reunion

April 17, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The 37th Annual Reunion of Descendants of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry (aka, “The Hardtack Regiment”) is set for Saturday, August 5th, at the Delevan Fire Fighters Memorial Training Center in Delevan, northeastern Cattaraugus County, NY. [Read more…] about Battle of Pine Knob Focus of 154th NY Descendants Reunion

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