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by Brian Sharp • Democrat & Chronicle, link to full post & picture
Fenced off, overgrown and largely forgotten, a patch of land bordering the Genesee River and Dinosaur Bar B Que is getting a closer look.
City officials want to hire a consultant to create a site plan and preliminary design mixing private development, parkland and [...]

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This gets filed under “things you’ll never find from a car.”

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Hike reveals Neverskink Mountain’s lore, history and beauty
Click here for Berks County Conservancy website.

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THE GOWANUS CANAL – History & Canoeing

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Click here to read about the Erie Canal and to see a narrated slide show showing what it’s like to boat the Erie Canal.

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By: Sarah Gantz / The Citizen, link to original post
There it was: the rusted iron skeleton of a wheel once sturdy enough to haul cargo, an 18-inch diameter piece of history poking up through the earth. Excavators did not dare give it an unearthing yank — the thin bars of iron could crumble if not [...]

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Click here to open a pdf of the October 2009 Nordic Ski Club Newsletter: Oct 09 RNSC newsletter (click again on the icon that opens)
Inside you’ll find an article on interesting things to do near Harriet Hollister (including a tractor museum) and current information on access to the Reynolds Gully waterfalls.

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Click here to read a blog post of how a visit to Boston inspired a Greece woman to discover the history in her own backyard. (Greece is a suburb of Rochester, NY.)

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The Daily Mail, link to original post
The Bronck Museum (Coxsackie,NY) is offering two special events as part of the 10th Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble in September. Nearly 300 events will take place from Saratoga County and the Capital Region to New York City on the weekends of Sept. 5-7, Sept. 12-13 (Heritage Weekend), Sept. [...]

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Join in New York State’s first ever New York Heritage Weekend, with free tours at Old Croton Aqueduct’s Ossining Weir, Clermont, Philipse Manor Hall, Olana and Staatsburgh State Historic Sites September 12 and 13.
NYS Parks – Taconic Region joins the more than 100 historic sites, forts and battlefields, museums and churches welcoming visitors during New [...]

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