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89Autumn In New Paltz, New York
Several years ago when first I transferred from Plattsburgh to New Paltz, New York, I didn’t know what to expect. My emotions were an equal mix of excitement and fear as I began a new chapter in my life....
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76The Cardiff Giant - the Greatest Hoax of All Time
Every once in a while, people get massively taken in by a hoax - witness the recent boy in the baloon. The mid to late 19th century was a great time for hoaxes, and the Cardiff Giant was the greatest hoax of all. A farmer claimed to have dug up a giant, petrified man - the Cardiff Giant.
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69Top 20 Jobs in New York State
The Catskill Mountains (public domain) The three major occupational categories in which New York State employers need to hire new workers each year through 2014 are 1) Information Technology (IT), 2)...
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60The Memory Barrel : Come with us and be touched by this lovely simplistic story and understand all things are possible.
"The Memory Barrel" "You will see it when you believe it" Coming in 2010Open the Memory Barrel and see everything isn’t always as it seems to the mind’s eye. A mother reaches from the next realm to...
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55Weaving My Financial Security Blanket - The Preface
I've never been good at saving money. I had a pretty modest, though certainly comfortable, upbringing. My parents were able to raise both my younger brother and me on a single income by knowing how to...
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68Lily Dale
Lily Dale is a modern spiritualist community located in Chautauqua County, in New York State, at the end of Cassadaga Lake, about an hour south of Buffalo. I went on a motorcycle trip to Lily Dale with a...
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70Summer's Biggest Blockbusters
I live in Upstate New York and we only have 3 months of really warm, sunny weather that can be called summer--if we are lucky. The remaining 9 months of the year it is snowing! Okay, so maybe that is a...
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75Train! - Railways, Rail Travel and Great Railroad Journeys
All about trains, railways and great railroad journeys. The train is back. Arguably the best and most environmentally friendly way to see the world is from a train window.
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60Niagara Falls Summer 2008
I was thrilled by the scenery of upstate New York. Mountains, lakes, farms and rivers. So different from the relatively boring flat-lands of the Interstate 95 Miami to New York run that I had covered at...
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57The Glory of the Fall Season in the Adirondack Region
www.flickr.com, photo posted by kate_bygrave Though I was born and raised in Upstate New York in the foothills of the Adirondacks, I thought I hated cold weather until I spent a few years in the heat and...
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