By Kara J. H. Kizis As someone who’s always been passionate about reading, I must admit there’s much I love about the digital media revolution: the plethora of fascinating blogs, e-books, and curated websites, the search engines that make information so easy to find, and the handheld devices that allow me to carry a whole library in my purse. But sometimes there’s nothing … [Read more...] about Reveling in Nostalgia for Ink and Paper at NYC’s Strand Book Store
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10 Places to Learn about New York’s Erie Canal
By Sandra Scott The Erie Canal is a New York State treasure. In the early 1800s when New York governor DeWitt Clinton proposed building a canal that would connect the navigable Hudson River to Lake Erie by a 300-mile canal through the wilderness, Thomas Jefferson said, “It is a splendid project and may be executed a century hence … but it is a little short of madness to … [Read more...] about 10 Places to Learn about New York’s Erie Canal