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Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Central New York

With an emphasis on Cortland and the surrounding area.

How Cortland Landed the New York Jets: SUNY Cortland's networking efforts, high-tech facilities lure NY Jets training camp

by Scott Rapp, Syracuse Post Standard, July 3, 2009. "No one mentioned Mike Alperstein by name when Gov. David Paterson announced that the New York Jets are going to train this month at SUNY Cortland. But those in the know say Alperstein, a December 2004 graduate of the college's sport management program, had a role in helping the college land the Jets. It was Alperstein who encouraged the NFL team -- now his employer -- to consider his alma mater when he learned the Jets were shopping for a training camp location. Alperstein coordinates events and game operations for the Jets."

Cortland Standard: NY Jets

College scrambles to create Jets internship - By Scott Conroe, Cortland Standard, April 24, 2009. "Johnson was especially impressed that the SUNY Cortland sport management department trains its students in the use of Dektronics, Pinnacle Xos and Dartfish digital video technology, which NFL and Major League Baseball have used for years to analyze games."

Dragons happy Jets are coming - By Alan Butler, Cortland Standard, April 23, 2009.

Community excited Jets camp coming to Cortland - By Holden B. Slattery, Cortland Standard, April 21, 2009.

Jets to train at SUNY Cortland - By Holden B. Slattery, Cortland Standard, April 20, 2009.

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Wineries

Antiques

Antique Andirons - Norwich

Building Preservation Works - Architectural warehouse. 45 James Streeet, Homer (607-749-8889)

Clingen Quest Restoration -Trumansburg. Terry Clingen and Daniel Quest, Partners.

D. Sickles Furniture Restoration - Locke (607-898-4131)

Dalton's American Decorative Arts - Syracuse

Hesse Galleries - Auction & appraisal services, Otego

Jacobsen Oriental Rugs - Syracuse

Jean Nowack's Country Caning Shop - Spencer (607-564-9241)

Little Falls Antique Center - Little Falls

Madison Auction Service

Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show

Maine Antique Digest - Has a searchable Dealer Database (Use NY for New York)

Mapes Auctioneers & Appraisers - Vestal

Pastimes - Ithaca

Riverbend Antiques Center - Marathon

Sophia's China and Crystal Matching

Toby's Auction Center - South New Berlin, NY, 13411 (607-859-9409)

Tompkins County Area Antique Dealers Association

TW Conroy Auctions

Architecture

Architects

Crawford & Stearns - Syracuse

Franklin N. Couch Architects Pc - Auburn. (800-870-4415)

HOLT Architects - Ithaca

Janice Miller Architects - 4361 Jordan Rd, Skaneateles, NY 13152 (315) 685-0641)

King & King, Architects LLP - Oldest architectural firm in New York State was founded in 1868 by Archimedes Russell.

Ramsgard Architectural Design - Skaneateles

Castle on the Hill: New York State Inebriate Asylum - Complex of buildings on Robinson Street in Binghamton. Designed by architect Isaac Perry, the original building was constructed around 1864. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 12/09/97. (Binghamton Asylum for the Chronic Insane, Binghamton State Hospital, Binghamton Psychiatric Center, currently the Greater Binghamton Health Center.) See the following articles that have appeared in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin: Make a Call (Editorial), February 8, 2006; 'Castle' development push stalls, by Liz Hacken, January 8, 2006; Group anxious for progress at former asylum, by Liz Hacken, January 27, 2006; Keepers of the castle, by Elizabeth Cohen, June 25, 2005; Local landmark (Editorial), January 5, 2005; Asylum was idea ahead of its time, by Dom Yanchunas, May 10, 2004; Preservationists worry about asylum building, by Dom Yanchunas, May 10, 2004. The Making of America Project (Cornell and the University of Michigan) is a good source for locating contemporary accounts of the Inebriate Asylum: Inebriate Asylums, and a Visit to One, by James Parton, Volume 22, Issue 132, October 1868, pp. 385-404; Our Inebriates Harbored and Helped, By an inmnate of the New York State Asylum [J. W.Palmer], Atlantic Monthly, Volume 24, Issue 141, July, 1969, pp. 109-119; Our Inebriates, Classfied and Clarified, by an inmate of the New York State Asylum, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 23, Issue 138, April, 1969; New York State Inebriate Asylum. Ceremonies on Laying the Corner-Stone of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, at Binghamton, September 24, 1858, The North American Review, Volume 94, Issue 195, April 1862, pp. 387-408; Anchored off Binghamton, by A Passenger, Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, Volume 14, Issue 19, July 1869, pp. 17-28 ("At thirty-six years of age I was rapidly becoming a confirmed drunkard and entered the New York State Inebriate Asylum at Binghamton.....");

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location (See New York). Here you'll find images of many Central New York locations:

Augustus Donnelly House - Homer

Jedediah Barber House - Homer

Calvary Episcopal Church - Homer

Sig Sautelle Circus Training House - South Main Street (State Route 11), Homer, Cortland County, NY, taken by photographer Jack. E. Boucher, 1966. ("Built 1902, living quarters on first and second floors, training area for acrobats on third floor, training ring for animals in cellar." In 1919 it housed migrant workers, in 1960 it was a restaurant).

Carriage House, Sedgewick House (1845) - 742 James Street, Syracuse. Alexander Jackson Davis, architect. Photograph by Jack Boucher, January, 1962.

Indian Castle Church - State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." [Data Page 2]. (Broome County sites include: Cyrus Gates House, Alonzo Roberson House, Alfred Dunk House, Franklin Whitney House, J. Stuart Wells House, Joseph R. Jones House, Mason-Randall House, Sherman Phelps House, Sheldon Hyde House, Amos Patterson House (Washingtonian Hall), G. H. Daniels Clock Shop).

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning - See also Department of Architecture

Dunn Foundation

National Register of Historic Places - Provides listings for New York State counties, including:

Northeast Natural Homes - Syracuse firm, headed by Kevin Stack, provides "quality home construction with minimal environmental impact."

Study of Greek Revival Architecture in the Seneca and Cayuga Lake Regions - By Clifford H. Ruffner, Jr., (Bachelor of Architecture thesis at Cornell University in 1939.) Discusses Elmira, Horsehads, Millport, Montour Falls, Watkins Glen, Reading Center, Dundee, Second Milo, Penn Yan, Lakemont, Dresden, Geneva, Ithaca, Varna, Genoa, Lake Ridge, Kings Ferry, Aurora, Union Springs, Cayuga Bridge, Cayuga, Auburn, Lodi, Ovid, Romulus,Seneca Falls, Waterloo, Odessa, and Trumansburg.

Syracuse University School of Architecture - Has information on Werner Seligman (1930-1999)

Arts (Artists, Artisans, Galleries, Musuems)

Note: Useful resources for locating information about regional artists include: Getty Union List of Artist Names, Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog, Library of Congress Authorities, Getty Research Library Catalog, Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral History Interviews and the Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art.

Artists of Central New York (this list is 'in progress')

Auburn

Frank A. Barney (1862-1954) - See Frank A. Barney: A Man of His Time by Carol Intemann Contiguglia, Auburn: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 2007.

William Henry Yates (1845-1934)

Binghamton:

Franck Taylor Bowers (1875-1932) - Painter, illustrator, photographer. (See Franck Taylor Bowers, 1875-1932: a retrospective of drawings, paintings, and photographs, February 27 - June 12, 1977, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York.)

Cortland:

Shawn Barber - Born in Cortland in 1970, Barber graduated from Cortland High School in 1988. His full-page portrait of President Barack Obama was published in the January 20 Wall Street Journal's special Inauguration section. Cortland Native's Portrait of Obama Goes National by Scott Conroe, Cortland Standard, January 24, 2009 (not available online).

George Dugan (1941 - ) - Local exhibitions catalogs include Reflections of Silence: Landscapes by Geroge Dugan (1994), Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland; George Dugan (1984), University Art Gallery, State University of Binghamton; and George Dugan: Recent Works (1991), Cortland Arts Council.

Homer:

Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900)

Ithaca

Carlton J. Manzano - Freeville. See his Locke Cemetery in Autumn

Banks Violette (1973 - ) - His agent is Jose Freire of Team Gallery. See Biography and Getty entry. He was born in Ithaca in 1973 and attended Tompkins Cortland Community College in 1994-95.

Henry Walton (1804-1865)

Newfield:

Eric Serritella - Ceramic artist. Newfield (607-564-7810)

Skaneateles:

John Dodgson Barrow (1824-1906)

Syracuse:

Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929) - American ceramicist, publisher, and teacher. See entry in the Getty Union List of Artist Names and Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robinea American Studio Potter, edited by by Thomas, Jr. Piche Jr.and Julia A. Monti, Syracuse, Everson Museum Art, 2006. Her works can be seen in the Everson Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Bowl 1924); Cranbrook Art Museum (Collection of Thirty-Four Vases and Jars); the Newark Museum, and Baggs Memorial Library, Ohio State University. She published Keramic Studio. A Monthly Magazine for the China Painter and Potter (1899-1924), continued by Design-keramic studio; a monthly magazine for the art teacher and designer (1924-1930).

Sanford Thayer (1820-1880)

Jerome Witkin - See Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin by Sherry Chayat, Syracuse University Press, 2006.

Abiding Branches - Rustic furniture designed and made by Anto Parseghian, King Ferry, New York. (315-364-7982)

Arnot Art Museum - Elmira

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester

Blink Gallery - Andes

Broome County Arts Council

Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery - The Museum has a permanent collection of over 350 American paintings and sculpture, including 20 works by Winslow Homer.

Cayuga County Arts Council

Center for the Arts - Homer

Central New York Community Arts Council - Utica

Chenango County Council of the Arts - Norwich

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts - Ithaca

Connective Corridor - "1.5 mile signature strip of cutting-edge cultural development connecting University Hill with downtown Syracuse."

Cultural Council of Cortland County

Delavan Art Gallery - 501 West Fayette St. Syracuse (315-425-7500)

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance - Narrowsburg (845-252-7576)

Dowd Fine Arts Gallery - SUNY Cortland

Emerson Gallery - Hamilton College

Everson Museum - Syracuse

Ferro Art - Little York, Cortland County. Also known as the Frog Pond Farm Folk Art Gallery, the Ferro family (Constantino, Carole, Tony, and Selinda) create metal sculpture, wood sculpture, pottery, paintings and furniture. See Playful artwork brings Little York family notoriety, by Christine Laubenstein, Cortland Standard, October 25, 2006.

Finger Lakes Artists and Crafters Network

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film - Rochester

George Rhoads - Painter, sculptor

Greater Ithaca Art Trail

Grove Gallery - 347 Main St., Aurora (315-364-7472)

Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca College

Handwork - Cooperative gallery. 102 W. State Street, Ithaca (607- 273-9400)

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell University, Ithaca

John Francis McCarthy - Finger Lakes photographer

Jungle Science - Binghamton.

Light Work - Non-profit, artist-run, photography and imaging center in Syracuse.

Main Street Gallery - Groton

Maryhill Clayworks - Jacques Schickel. "American organic pottery." 85 Ferguson Road, Dryden, NY.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Mohawk Valley Center for The Arts - Little Falls

Munson Williams Proctor Institute - Utica. See also Oral History Interview with William Palmer conducted by Joseph S. Trovato on June 12, 1965 (Palmer was a director the School of Art at Munson-Williams-Proctor) and Oral History Interview with Robert Indiana conducted by Richard Brown Baker on September 12, 1963. (From the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral History Interviews which is searchable.)

New York State Council on the Arts

Robert R. MacPherson, Armorer - Ithaca craftsman is "producing high-quality harnesses and individual pieces of armor, emphasizing replicas and historically accurate extrapolations from original works."

Shard of Glass Studios - 81 State Street, Binghamton. Studio Karen Stanley.

State of the Art Gallery - Ithaca.

Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York - Syracuse University

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park - Cazenovia

Strong Museum - Rochester

Tioga County Council on the Arts

Titus Gallery - Ithaca. Susan Booth Titus & Matthew James Peterson. 222 The Commons (607-277-2649).

West Kortright Centre - East Meredith

West Lake Conservators - Skaneateles. With a list of Finger Lakes Artists

Books, Bookstores and Library Sales

A-ha! Books - Ithaca

Antiquarian Booksellers' Association - You can search by name, town, state, specialization and owner's name.

Autumn Leaves Used Books - 115 the Commons, Ithaca (607-273-8239)

Barnes & Noble Store Locations

Book Sale Finder - Has a New York section.

Bookery - Ithaca

Books: Slim Fingers Beckon by Archie Hayes Merrill (""poet laureate" of New York's Finger Lakes/Genesee Valley region)

Borders - Has a store locator

Colophon Books - Ithaca

Cornell Store

Cornell University Press

Creekside Books & Coffee - Independent bookstore, with wireless Internet access. 35 Fennell St, Skaneateles, (315-685-0379)

Footprint Press

Friends of Tompkins County Library Book Sales - They have sales in Spring & Fall.

Heart of the Lakes Publishing - Interlaken.

Hope Farm Press and Bookshop - Has a section on Central New York and the Finger Lakes

Mando Books - Cortland

Meyer Bookbinding Co. - Book Restorations and Custom Bookbinding. 35 Market St., Auburn (315-258·3930)

Purple Mountain Press - Fleischmanns

Sean Fagan, Rare Books - Bloomfield

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Over 1700 electronic texts are included. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. A search for Skaneateles, for example, retrieves 5 records. One of the titles, Female life among the Mormons (1855), by Maria Ward, is available in full-text. The novel begins: "My early life was passed in that beautiful and picturesque region which borders Skaneateles Lake, in the State of New York." The narrator leaves Spafford, Onondaga County, for Albany. In the stage, she discusses Joseph Smith and Mormonism with the other passenger. "Many people of my acquaintance, in Scott and Spafford, have embraced Mormonism..." "There was a family in Coldbrook by the name of Cheeny, I think," suggested the man." Other names mentioned from Spafford include Pulsifer, Gould, Maxson, Ripley. A search for Cortland retrieves the following from Artemus Ward, His Travels (1865): "There is an eccentric Mormon at Salt Lake City of the name of W. W. Phelps. He is from Cortland, State of New York, and has been a Saint for a good many years. It is said he enacts the character of the Devil, with a pea-green tail, in the Mormon initiation ceremonies." (p. 193).

Business

American City Business Journals - Covers Albany and Buffalo. Site is searchable and has an archives of back issues.

Business Council of New York State - Among its reports is Micro areas in New York move up in national rankings of economic strength, September 11, 2006. "Areas centered in Corning, Cortland, Plattsburgh, Seneca Falls and Watertown-Fort Drum each moved up more than 100 places in the 2006 rankings of 577 micropolitan areas nationwide, compared to their 2004 positions." See also Policom's Micropolitan Statistical Areas Economic Strength Ranking

Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce

CASE Center at Syracuse University

Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board

Chemung County Chamber of Commerce - Elmira

Community & Rural Development Institute (CARDI) - Cornell University network of over 350 faculty, research and extension specialists in community and rural development.

Cornell Local Government Program

Cortland County Business Development Corporation / Industrial Development Agency - Provides Press Releases and information on the Emerging Technology Alliance

Cortland Companies - Made up of Cortland Cable, Cortland Fibron BX and Puget Sound Rope.

Cortland County Chamber of Commerce

Cortland Line Company - Fly fishing equipment

Crains New York Business

Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

Digital Towpath -"Energizing e-commerce along the Erie Canal."

Empire State Development -Includes the New York State Data Center.

Essential Connections - "Online marketplace for the region's technology-based industries and a resource to stimulate and encourage collaboration and innovation." Joint effort of the Central Upstate Regional Alliance and the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York.

Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce

Federal Reserve Bank of New York - The Empire State Manufacturing Survey is a monthly survey of manufacturers in New York State conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Finger Lakes Business Almanac - Free registration

Geneva Area Chamber of Commerce

Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce

Greater Cazenovia Chamber of Commerce

Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce

Greater Syracuse Economic Growth Council Resource Center

Herkimer County Chamber of Commerce

International Electron Devices Limited - Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Purchased former Buckbee Mears Cortland Plant in October 2004. "IEDL’s clients comprise the biggest names in the picture tube, automobile and general engineering industries, including Samtel, Samsung, JCT Electronics, New Holland and Honda." (Cortland County BDC Press Release, 11/10/04)

Ithaca HOURS Online - Local currency system (barter economics) serving Tompkins County

Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY) - With Member Directory.

Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York - Cayuga, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Seneca & Tompkins counties. Sponsors of the report Essential New York Initiative: Transforming Central Upstate New York to a Knowledge-Based Economy. The region referred to as Central Upstate New York consists of Cayuga, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Seneca & Tompkins counties.

Mohawk Valley Chamber of Commerce - Radisson Hotel, 200 Genesee Street, Utica. (315-724-3151)

Myway.com - Find a business, with directions and a map

New York State Banking Department - Provides Weekly Bulletins. You can search for information on bank fees, including ATMs in Central New York and the Finger Lakes.

New York State Department of State - With a searchable Index of Licensees and Registrants. You can search by ID number, name or business name for the following types of licenses/registrations: Alarm Installer, Armored Car Carrier, Barber, Hearing Aid Dispenser, Notary Public, Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Branch Office, Real Estate Salesperson, Watch, Guard, & Patrol Agency, Appearance Enhancement, Armored Car Guard, Central Dispatch Facility, Hearing Aid Dispenser Business, Private Investigator, Real Estate Associate Broker, Real Estate Broker and Security Guard. They also have a searchable Corporation and Business Entity Database which includes business and not for profit corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships, as well as other miscellaneous businesses. A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves 263 results.

New York State Small Business Development Center

Onondaga County

Otsego County Chamber

Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities

- By Jennifer S. Vey, Brookings Institution, May 2007. "This analysis revealed that New York has seven economically struggling cities: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse and Utica." The full report (84 pages) is available online in pdf format.

Rome Chamber of Commerce

Schuyler County Chamber of Commerce - Watkins Glen

Schuyler County Lodging & Tourism Association

Shovel Ready - Niagaga Mohowk Economic Development Department

Skaneateles Chamber of Commerce

Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board

Taxpayers in New York - Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), associated with Syracuse University, provides data on income reported on Federal Tax Returns for all New York counties. (Free registration)

Tompkins County

Tompkins County Area Development

Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Census Bureau New York Profiles

Yates County Chamber of Commerce - Penn Yan

Canals and Railroads

Canal Society of New York State -

Cayuga County, Springport, Ledyard, Aurelius, Union Springs, Finger Lakes... - Bill Hecht's site includes Erie Canal Info and Maps.

Corn Hill Navigation - Rochester organization formed in 1991 to re-establish a presensce on the Genesee River and Erie Canal with a mission is to promote historic and significantwaterways in the Rochester area. With schedules and fares for the 19th century replica packet boat Sam Patch.

Cornell Railroad Historical Society

Cycling the Erie Canal Bike Tour - 400 mile bike tour from Buffalo to Albany.

Erie Canal - Travel, lodging, weather, hiking, biking

Erie Canal Bibliography - New York State Historical Society

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor - National Park Service. See also Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor

Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection - Syracuse University Department of Special Collections.

Existing Railroad Stations in New York State - Charles P. Woolever

Finger Lakes Railway - Geneva

History of the Erie Canal - Maintained by the Department of History at the University of Rochester, the site has a valuable Bibliography with a number of full-text resources. Texts include History of the Canal System of the State of New York (1906) and History of the Barge Canal of New York State (1921) both by Nobel E. Whitford, Hydrology and Environmental Aspects of Erie Canal (1817-99) by By W.B. Langbein, A Treatise On the Improvement of Canal Navigation (1796 ) by Robert Fulton and Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal (1852) by Jacob Abbott.

Library of Congress Department of Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Search records in over 50 collections of the Prints and Photographs Division. With Subject Index. A search for john collier canal for example, in All Text retrieves 38 canal photographs by John Collier.

Mid-Lakes Navigation - Skaneateles firm offers lake and canal cruises

National Railroad Historical Society - Central New York Chapter

New York State Canal System - Site highlights include canal news, history, maps and boating information.

Tioga Scenic Railroad - Owego

Colleges and Universities

Association of Proprietary Colleges - Represents over 35 degree-granting institutions in New York State providing professional education for students interested in business administration, accounting, computer programming and technology, general and specialized management, marketing, and health services, as well as for careers in such fields as visual arts, merchandising and hospitality.

Binghamton Univeristy

Broome Community College - Binghamton

Cayuga Community College - Auburn

Cazenovia College

Colgate University - Hamilton. Maroon-News is the campus newspaper.

College Town Issues - Information about issues related to student and year-round residents living and working together in college towns.

Commission on Independent Colleges (CICU) - "Voluntary consortium of more than 100 non-profit institutions of higher education, is the coordinating organization and public policy forum of the Independent Sector of the University of the State of New York (USNY)." Lists Independent Colleges and Universities in Central New York.

Cornell University - Highlights include

Cornell University Calendar of Events

Cornell News Service (searchable)

Cornell General News Releases

Infobase: Campus Information and Visitor Relations

Cornell Magazine (with current and past issues)

Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: News

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Cornell Chronicle (full-text for the last two years)

Cornell Daily Sun

Cornell University Library Gateway

Cornell University Rare & Manuscript Collections

Elmira College

Finger Lakes Community College - Canandaigua

Finger Lakes Distance Learning Partnership

Hamilton College - Clinton

Hartwick College - Oneonta

Hobart and William Smith - Geneva

Ithaca College - Highlights include Ithacan (campus newspaper), Ithaca College Quarterly

Keuka College - Keuka Park

Le Moyne College - Syracuse

New York State Education Department: Post Secondary Institutions in New York State

New York State Higher Education Services Corporation - Provides students and families with access to financial aid in New York State. There is a useful collection of information for Parents, a Searchable Lender Directory and a School Codes Search.

New York State Indian Aid Program - Eligible American Indian students can receive grant awards of up to $1,750 per year for attending any approved, accredited postsecondary institution in New York State.

Onondaga Community College - Syracuse

St. Elizabeth College of Nursing - Utica

SUNY Cobleskill

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Syracuse

SUNY Cortland - Highlights include Library, Registrar, Departments, News, Sports and Information, a staff and student Directory Search, Campus Events, College Calendar, Faculty Senate, and Child Care Center.

SUNY Delhi

SUNY Empire State College

SUNY Upstate Medical University

SUNY Morrisville

SUNY Oneonta

Syracuse University

Site Map - Also has an A to Z Index

Daily Orange - With searchable Issue Archives

Calendar of Events

Lecture Series

Tompkins Cortland Community College - Dryden

Utica College

Wells College - Aurora. Calendar of Events, Book Arts Center

Directories

AnyWho Directories - With a Reverse LookUp where you can enter the number and find the address.

Switchboard

United States Postal Service - Offers a Zip Code Lookup and a Post Office Locator.

Yahoo! People Search

Employment

Abracat - Searchable database of classified ads of over 700 newspaper affiliates. You can search by zipcode or in indvidual newspapers.

Cornell Office of Human Resources

Davinci Project - Not-for-profit, Syracuse-based consortium of growing technology companies in Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison, Cortland, and Oswego counties of central New York focused on attracting engineers and technical professionals in all disciplines.

Google Local - Locate by zipcode or address

New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health - Has a list of the 825 most dangerous workplaces in New York State

NYJobSource

New York State Department of Civil Service - With information on Civil Service Examinations

New York State Department of Labor

New York State Workers' Compensation Board

New York's Job Bank - Search by zip code

Rochester Careeers

SUNY Employment

Syracuse.com: Best Local Jobs

Tompkins County Community College Employment Opportunities

Tompkins County Personnel

Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES Human Resources

Welfare-to-Work

Western New York Jobs HomePage - Buffalo and Rochester

Workforce New York - New York State Department of Labor. Listed by county

Environment

600K Gallons of Asphalt Spilled at Suit-Kote - by Aimee Milks, Cortland Standard, 2008. "The spill occurred when a new valve broke after it was placed on a year-old tank that holds 1.5 million gallons....All of the liquid asphalt in the tank above the failed valve leaked out, said (Brian] Renna, who was not sure how much remained in the tank."

Carol L. Johnson - In the Landscape Legends Oral History Project, part of the Cultural Landscape Foundation website, Carol Johnson describes her role in planning for an the Bell site energy project on Cayuga Lake in 1981 (Biography - Energy Projects). "They had started to do excavation for an extension of the powerplant which could be either nuclear or fossil....they ripped the site up and did a lot of blasting..." Johnson had to give testimony at various hearings. "They had an alternate site on Lake Ontario which is a much bigger lake than poor little Lake Cayuga....I felt the power plant on Lake Ontario would not cause as much visual impact as the one of Lake Cayuga would." Johnson was put in charge of restoring the site to a natural meadow landscape. See Carol R. Johnson and transcript of interview.

Catskill Center - Arkville.

Cayuga County Soil & Water Conservation District

Cayuga Heights Deer Project

Cayuga Lake Defense Fund

Cazenovia Preservation Foundation - The Foundation's mission is to "preserve Cazenovia's historic character and important lands and waters for the benefit of the community. To this end, CPF owns over 400 acres of property in the Cazenovia area, holds conservation easements on another 700 acres and has facade easements for several local historic structures." They were the publishers, in 1977 and in 1997 of Cazenovia: the Story of an Upland Community by Russell Grills.

Citizens' Planning Alliance of Tompkins County - Ithaca

City of Syracuse Department of Water

Companies Search for Natural Gas: Tapping Cortland Area's Potential - By Evan Geibel, Cortland Standard, May 1, 2007. "The Cortland County Clerk's Office has records of 1,805 leases for oil and gas exploration, involving at least seven companies and gong back to 1997." Companies mentioned in the article include Fortuna Energy Inc., based in Horseheads, New York and Chesapeake Energy Corp., based in Oklahoma City, which has subcontracted work to Dawson Geophysical Co. Among those quoted in the article are Robert Darling, Professor of Geology at SUNY Cortland, and John Gordon from Dawson Geophysical Co., a SUNY Cortland graduate. See also the following:

New York’s Gas Rush Poses Environmental Threat

- by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest, July 22, 2008. "In New Mexico, oil and gas drilling that uses waste pits comparable to those planned for New York has already caused toxic chemicals to leach into the water table at some 800 sites. Colorado has reported more than 300 spills affecting its ground water."

Natural Gas Drilling: Is New York Ready?

- by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, July 22, 2008. "The culprit is a practice called hydraulic fracturing. It’s never been done much in New York. But it’s the only way to get gas out of the Marcellus Shale. Basically the driller blasts the bottom of the well shaft with water, sand, and chemicals, under very high pressure in order to free up the gas. Hydrofracking demands a huge amount of water of water – up to six million gallons per well."

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's five part report - New York's Natural Gas and Oil Resource Endowment - consisting of: Past, Present and Potential (Part 1), New York's Oil and Natural Gas History: A Long Story, But Not the Final Chapter (Part 2), Rediscovering the Most Mature Hydrocarbon Region in the World (Part 3), The Future: New York's Remaining Natural Gas and Oil Resource Potential (Part 4) and Capturing the Benefits from New York's Natural Oil and Gas Resource Endowment (Part 5). Pennsylvania has also been targeted for drilling as part of the Marcellus Shale Formation. See:

Top Local Stories: Natural Gas drilling Blog - Times Tribune, July 16, 2008. "Two Texas-based natural gas drilling companies, four Lycoming County creeks and 7 million gallons of water added up to a public lesson in state gas drilling regulations. The companies, Chief Oil and Gas and Range Resources — Appalachia, were cited by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission on May 30 for drawing 4 million and 3 million gallons of water, respectively, from creeks to use in their drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale. Those citations led to a wave of new actions: The following week, the River Basin Commission notified 23 natural gas operators in the Susquehanna watershed — which stretches from Indiana County to Lackawanna County — that if they did not have permits to draw large amounts of water from streams, they would be considered in "willful noncompliance" with the interstate commission's regulations."

Gas wells a mixed blessing on property: Lucrative leasing deals are possible for area residents. Negatives: Noise, pollution - By Rory Sweeney, Times Leader, July 14, 2008. "That excitement could quickly wane if problems crop up or owners are unprepared for the realities of drilling. Unlike other unconventional gas sources, shale wells produce consistently over three decades, so well sites are more or less permanent. Even after sites are reclaimed, some infrastructure is left behind. Also, because gas is transported nationally through lines that are more compressed than regional distribution lines, noisy compression stations will need to be installed in what are otherwise bucolically quiet locales. Then there’s the potential to unearth radioactive materials, acid-producing minerals and deplete water resources. In fact, after concerns arose about the amount of water necessary to drill a well, the state Department of Environmental Protection included an addendum to its drilling permit that addresses water usage and is specific to Marcellus shale."

Pennsylvania loses out in natural gas drilling - by David Falchek, Times Tribune, July 6, 2008. "Yet, a key tax on oil, natural gas and mineral removal that has raised billions in public revenue in other states doesn't exist in Pennsylvania. In the Keystone State, oil and gas exploration companies and their landowner partners are given a big pass."

Pa. legislator introduces shale-related bill, Star-Gazette, June 12, 2008. "The Marcellus Shale is a large natural gas-bearing shale formation in the Appalachian Basin. It is estimated the deposit contains recoverable natural gas reserves of between 50 trillion and 200 trillion cubic feet. As a result a number of gas development companies have been attracted to Pennsylvania."

Natural Gas Exploration and Leasing created by Ken Ballie of Penn State Cooperative Extension. There are photographs of drilling site of Ultra Energy in Tioga County.

The Pennsylvania Gas Rush - WPSU

Not everyone will benefit from natural gas by Josh Mrozinksi, Wyoming County Press Examiner, April 23, 2008. "The analyst noted that the value of an acre could reach $20,000-$40,000 if the Marcellus proves to be as prolific as believed."

Gas Rush Sparks Environmental Concerns - Endeavor News, June 21, 2008. "Developing the Marcellus Shale formation requires significant amounts of fresh water. Drilling rigs each require one to three million gallons of water and produce a similar amount of waste. Companies are exempt from federal laws requiring disclosure about additives to water, called "frac' fluid," injected into wells to fracture the Marcellus and release natural gas. It also is hard to know what comes out of the ground -- salt, metals and radioactive particles -- that may differ from site to site."

Cornell Composting

Cornell Lake Source Cooling

Cornell Center for the Environment

Cornell Waste Management Institute

Cortland Herpetology Connection - "Where high school students help with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Amphibian and Reptile Atlas."

EcoVillage at Ithaca

EPA Region 2

EPA Global Warming: New York

Finger Lakes Institute - Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Finger Lakes - Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance

Finger Lakes Land Trust - With information on events and FLLT Nature Preserves.

Great Lakes: an Environmental Atlas and Resource Book - Full-text of the 3rd edition jointly produced by the Government of Canada and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Great Lakes Information Network - The Environment in the Great Lakes section covers a number of topics including Air and Land, Water, Flora and Fauna and Pollution. In the Invasive Species section, information is provided about Purple Loosestrife ((Lythrum salicaria), Common Carp, Eurasian Watermilfoil, Black Swallow Wort (Cynanchum louiseae), Pale swallow-wort ((Vincetoxicum rossicum syn. Cynanchum rossicum), Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) and Zebra Mussels.

HUD Environmental Maps

In the Drink: Cities Try Cooling Off with Deep Lake Water - October, 1999 Scientific American article on Cornell's Lake Source Cooling Project by Ithaca resident Liz Holmes.

Invasive Species in New York State include:

Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria),

Black Swallow Wort (Cynanchum louiseae),

Pale swallow-wort ((Vincetoxicum rossicum syn. Cynanchum rossicum). See also Swallow-worts: Increasingly Problematic Exotic Vines in NY State from the Weed Ecology Lab at Cornell

Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum),

Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris),

Eurasian Watermilfoil,

Lakewide Management Plan for Lake Ontario

League of Conservation Voters - With annual National Environmental Scorecards on how New York Senators and Representatives voted on environmental issues.

New York Flora Atlas (NYFA)

- "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.

New York Water Environment Association

New York River Otter Project

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - Provides information on Region 7, Publications, Environment DEC Newsletter, press releases, Conservationist Magazine, texts of Conservation Rules and Regulations and a browsable list of Office of Hearings and Mediation Services Decisions.

New York State Law Reporting Bureau - Their Slip Opinion Service provides access to recently released State court decisions that have not yet been edited for publication in the Official Reports, together with an electronic citation for each decision. A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves 15 opinions, among which is 716 N.Y.S.2d 786 In the Matter of YELLOW LANTERN KAMPGROUND et al., Appellants, v. TOWN OF CORTLANDVILLE et al., Respondents. 87147, decided and entered November 28, 2000, 2000 NYSlipOp 10377. Calendar Date: September 11, 2000. At issue was whether the town of Cortlandville had used spot zoning in granting a variance to the Suit-Kote Corporation. The court found that the zoning change constituted impermissible spot zoning. "In this case, the Town Board engaged in no reasoned consideration of any of the foregoing factors but instead grounded its determination solely on the economic benefit the community would derive from respondent's continued, and possibly expanded, operation and its conclusion that the rezoning would not adversely affect surrounding uses because, even absent the requested rezoning, respondent would still be operating its business as nonconforming use. As properly recognized by petitioners, that kind of reasoning would justify the transformation of substantially any nonconforming use into a conforming one by the facile device of rezoning the affected parcels. Rezoning on that basis impermissibly "rewards the nonconforming user, contravenes the strong policy intended to achieve the ultimate elimination of nonconforming uses * * * and diminishes the effectiveness of the comprehensive zoning plan" (Matter of Augenblick v Town of Cortlandt, 104 AD2d 806, 815). "The court found that "although rezoning can be motivated by a desire to promote economic development, 'spot zoning' is impermissible." John Caher comments on this decision in Local Zoning Board Overturned by Panel in the December 5, 2000 NY Law Journal. Caher calls the decision, "an unusual invalidation of a local zoning decision" and goes on to say that the "Town of Cortlandville had sought to accommodate a major local employer, Suit-Kote Corporation, which for the past 30 years has had to get a variance every time it wanted to modify or expand its asphalt production facility..." )Saturday, March 18, 2006

New York v. United States, 488 U.S. 1041 (1992) - Syllabus of Supreme Court decision in which Cortland and Allegany counties challenged the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 was argued on March 30, 1992 and decided on June 19, 1992. See also Justice O'Connor's opinion and the dissenting opinions of Justice Stevens and Justice White. (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.) Findlaw also provides a copy of New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992). You can hear the oral arguments (March 30, 1992) at Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia in New York v. United States (Peter H. Schiff, Lawrence G. Wallace & William B. Collins) which includes the following summary: "Does the Low-Level Waste Act violate the Tenth Amendment and the "guarantee clause" of Article Four? Conclusion: In a 6-3 decision, the Court upheld two of the three provisions of the Act under review, reasoning that Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause to use financial rewards and access to disposal sites as incentives for state waste management. The third provision, the "take-title" qualification, stipulated that states must take legal ownership and liability for low-level waste or by the regulatory act. "Either type of federal action," wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "would 'commandeer' state governments into the service of federal regulatory purposes, and would for this reason be inconsistent with the Constitution's division of authority between federal and state governments." This last provision violated the Tenth Amendment."

Onondaga County Soil and Water Conservation District

Our Lake: Central New York's Near-Real-Time Surface Water Quality Network

Plant Conservation Alliance Alien Plant Working Group - They are producing an extensive list of alien plant invaders. Has information on Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum). (See also Non-native Freshwater Plants, Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plant Particulars and Photographs. The Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Site has abstracts for 47 papers on Eurasian Watermilfoil.)

Preble News & Opinion - Frank Hogg

Review of New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process - National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1996. Full-text is available - see Table of Contents.

Skaneateles Lake Watershed - Provides information on Aquatic Plant Management and Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophlyllum spicatum).

State of the Owasco Lake Watershed

Toxic Release Inventory - EPA site provides direct access to toxic chemical releases and other waste management data at the local, state, regional and national level. Use the TRI Explorer to search for data by facility.

Tri-County Skaneateles Lake Pure Water Association

Upstate Freshwater Institute - Syracuse.

U.S. Geological Survey in New York - With data on acid rain, earthquakes and groundwater including Near-Real-Time Surface-Water Data. You can search for Water Resources on Cortland County

Wolves and Honey (2004) - by Susan Brind Morrow. "The Finger Lakes region of western New York is remote from much of the state, and, unlike the Hamptons, the Catskills, and the Adirondacks, was never really settled by summer people. It is nevertheless a beautiful and somewhat mysterious part of America—with long, clean lakes, hidden valleys, and towns bearing Greek names like Hector and Ithaca—and was the birthplace of Mormonism, spiritualism, and the American women's-suffrage movement." (New Yorker, August 9, 2004)

Events

Antique & Classic Boat Show - Skaneateles.

Blackwater Challenge - Watertown. Host of the North American Freestyle Kayak Championships.

Blues on the Bridge - South Washington Street, Binghamton. Held in September

Boilermaker Road Race - Utica. "Nation's largest 15-kilometer race." See also the Observer-Dispatch's uticaBoilermaker.com

Bon Ton Roulet - 400 mile, seven-day bicycle camping trip held annually in July.

Carrier Dome - Syracuse

Cayuga Lake Triathlon - Ithaca Triathlon Club

Cazenovia 4th of July Foot Race

Central New York Maple Festival - Marathon

Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival

Coors Light Balloon Fest - Jamesville Beach Park

Cornell University

Cornell Chronicle: Events

Cornell University Events Calendar

Cornell Department of Music Concert Schedule

Cornell Concert Series

Department of Natural Resources Seminars

Department of Theatre, Film and Dance - Has Performance Series

East Asia Program Calendar of Events

Cornell Plantations Fall Lecture Series

Cornell University Summer Events

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Monday Night Seminar Series

Cultural Council of Cortland County - Has an Events Calendar

Crappie Derby - Whitney Point. Held annually in late January.

Cycling the Erie Canal Bike Tour - 400 mile bike tour from Buffalo to Albany.

Empire Expo Calendar - New York State Fairgrounds

Empire State Brewing & Music Festival - Syracuse

Friends of the Tompkins County Library Book Sale

General Clinton Canoe Regatta - Cooperstown to Bainbridge. (Held annually on Memorial Day weekend.)

Grass Roots Festival - Trumansburg.

Guinness Irish Festival - Syracuse.

Homer Calendar of Events

Ithaca College

News, Events & Media

Master Calendar

Ithaca College Office of Multicultural Affairs Events

Department of Theatre Arts: Main State Season

Ithaca Events

Ithaca Festival

IthacaNet: Arts, Entertainment, Sports

Lafayette Apple Festival

Lake Ontario Pro Am Fishing Tournament

Light in Winter - Ithaca. Annual winter festival held at the end of January.

Lights on the River - Owego

Lilac Festival - Highland Park, Rochester. See obituary: Richard Fenicchia, a Horticulturist, 88

Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show

Mountain Goat Run - Syracuse

Musefest - Ithaca, September 2-4, 2005

New York Rhythm & Blues Festival - Syracuse

New York State Fair - Official site for the State Fair held at the end of August. There's also an unofficial New York State Fair site.

Onondaga County Parks Calendar of Events

Onondaga Land Rights issues and Our Common Future - "This free series of programs will take place about every month at Syracuse Stage (820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse) and involves a historic collaboration of many departments and organizations at Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), along with several community organizations." Scheduled speakers include Robert W. Venables, and Winona LaDuke, Oren Lyons and Joe Heath.

Oswego Harborfest

Renaissance Festival - Sterling

Rogers Environmental Education Center - Sherburne. Has Program Schedule.

Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series - Syracuse. Sponsored by the Friends of Central Library, the lectures are held at the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.

Saltonstall Literary Salons

Skaneateles Festival - Five weeks of summer chamber music, chamber orchestra and children's concerts

Spiediefest and Balloon Rally - Binghamton

SUNY Cortland Events - Campus Artist and Lecture Series

Syracuse Arts Net

Syracuse Jazz Fest

Syracuse University Weekly Calendar - See also Syracuse University Lecture Series, This Month's Events At The College of Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture Events, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Hot News, Drama Department

Turning Stone Casino Resorts Showroom

Watkins Glen International Speedway

Western New York Events Calendar

Farming, Agriculture, Livestock

Beak & Skiff Apple Farms - LaFayette

Berry Picking

Reeves Farms - Route 370, Baldwinsville (315-635-3357 or 638-3276) Four miles west of Baldwinsville

Casey's Farm Produce - 36 Berry Road, Apulia Station (315-683-5674) Just off Route 80 near Tully

Hencle's Berry Patch - 7629 W. Dead Creek Road, Baldwinsville (315-638-0767 or 635-6942)

Schader Farms - 1590 Babcock Road, Baldwinsville (315-635-7456)

Paul Hafner Farms of Baldwinsville - 1481 W. Genesee Road (315-638-4033)

Cream of the Crop Produce - Route 31 and Henry Clay Boulevard Clay (315-652-7823)

Tim Reeves Farm Market - Route 48 and Lamson Road, Baldwinsville (315-695-6446)

Hahn's Farm - 8630 Dunham Road, Baldwinsville (315-635-9328 or 635-3374)

Williams Farm - Whiting Road and Route 31, Cicero (315-699-3442)

Pompey Hill Produce - Route 20, Pompey (315-677-9547)

Manley's Farm Market - West Main Street, Elbridge (315689-5339)

Chenango County Farm Bureau

Cornell Cooperative Extension - There's also one for Onondaga County

Critz Farms - Cazenovia

Environmental Working Group - Their Farm Subsidy Database shows where farm subsidies go.

Farm Sanctuary - Has a shelter near Watkins Glen

George Eastman Historic House & Gardens

Grisamore Farms - Locke

Ithaca Farmers Market - With Calendar of Events and links to Related Resources.

Johnny Appleseed Farm - Nelson

Liberty Ridge Farms - Verona. Farm owned and operated by Tom and Sunny Bixby "established in 1974 to produce natural fibers for spinning, weaving, felting, knitting and crafts."

Lindesay Patent Rural Historic District - "9,200-acre parcel of land comprising the southwestern portion of the Town of Cherry Valley, Ostego County, New York, is located at the northeastern corner of the Allegheny Plateau in central upstate New York. The Lindesay Patent was first surveyed in 1739, and includes the historic village of Cherry Valley, as well as many farmsteads surrounding the village that represent 19th and early 20th century regional patterns of land use."

New York Apple Association

New York Farm Bureau

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station - Geneva

New York State Dairy Farm Profitability and Productivity Project - Cornell

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets- Has information on Farmers Markets. You can search I Love New York Farms: a Guide to Farm Fresh Products, which lists nearly 2000 farms offering food, products, and services directly to the public. For example, a search for maple products in the Central Region located over 100 farms which sell maple products.

New York State Berry Growers' Association - With a list of members

Northeast DairyBusiness

Ontario Orchards - West Oswego

Rodale Farm Locator

Sanctuary Stables - Cazenovia. Coosa Lad Registered Quarter Horses

Gardens, Nurseries & Florists

Arnold's Florist and Greenhouses - Homer. 607-749-2631

Bakers' Acres - Groton

Ballantyne Gardens - Liverpool

Bedlam Gardens - King Ferry. (315-364-8725) Owner Debi Lampman grows "14 varieties of hibiscus and several varieties of a hardy fuchsia." (From "On the Road: Ithaca, New York" by Kathy Purdy, Horticulture Magazine, Special Northeastern Supplement, October/November, 2006.)

Binghamton Garden Club

Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens

Cayuga Daylilies - Ithaca

Cayuga Landscape - Ithaca

"Clinton Park and Botanic Garden, which contains within its limits Hamilton College, at Clinton, N.Y., is a very successful illustration of this improvement. Fifteen or twenty acres have been enclosed within the College Park, and entirely laid out in the most skillful and artistic manner. Broad and extensive lawns are divided by graceful walks throughout the whole extent; trees and shrubs of every description flourishing in this climate, have been planted in groups, masses, or as single specimens. A section of the ground will be used as a Botanic Garden, in which trees, shrubs, and flowers will be arranged according to their several families. The humanizing influence of harmonious and beautiful surroundings upon every one, is beyond all question and it was truly said by the Rev. Mr. Gridley, towhose taste and energymuch of the success of the Clinton Park is due, that "it is no vain thing to suppose that the minds and hearts of the students will be benefited by daily walks through such grounds, and in view of such a varied and wide-spread landscape: these peaceful shades and sunny slopes and laughing streams -- this hum of cheerful industry --- the music of distant church bells, and the glimpses and echoes here caught of the great thoroughfares of business and travel that mark the great world without -- these skies, every cnanging and ever beautiful, and the seasons rolling through them -- what mind can be brought into the midst of such scenes without deriving from them essential profit?" (from A. J. Downing, Treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (1859) 6th edition, p. 572. , Making of America, a "digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction", University of Michigan.)

Cold Climate Gardening - Kathy Purdy

Cornell Plantations - Ithaca. There is a list of publications

Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture

Countryside Flower Farm - Honeoye Falls

Cutler Botanic Gardens - 840 Front St., Binghamton (607-772-8953) Take exit 5 from Interstate Route 81.

Dickman Farms - Auburn

Dilmun Hill Organic Farm - Student-run organic farm & experiential learning center at Cornell University.

Ear to the Ground: Insider dirt on the gardening scene in upstate New York - Jane Millman's gardening blog (associated with Upstate Gardeners' Journal)

Federated Garden Clubs of New York State

Finger Lakes Native Plant Society

Genesee Country Village & Museum Gardens - Mumford

Genesee-Finger Lakes Nursery and Landscape Association - With Member List

George Eastman Historic House & Gardens

Graceful Gardens - Mecklenburg

Green Thumb Markets - Lafayette

Grisamore Farms - Locke

Ithaca's Children's Garden

Landmark Society of Western New York - Has information on the Ellwanger Garden in Rochester

Lilac Festival - Highland Park, Rochester.

Linwood Gardens - "An historical site, Linwood Gardens, of great significance in the history of the American tree peony is located in Pavilion, NY, southwest of Rochester. Linwood Gardens belongs to the Gratwick family. William Gratwick worked for the first significant breeder of peonies and tree peonies in America, Arthur P. Saunders, who taught chemistry at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Saunders conducted his breeding experiments from about 1915 until his death in 1953. He created over 17,000 cultivars, including about 300 herbaceous peonies and 70 tree peonies. His tree peonies passed to William Gratwick who continued his breeding work with a friend, Nassos Daphnis at Linwood Gardens. Together they created a legacy of American tree peonies that are among the most unique and beautiful in the world. In an era where the tree peony is enjoying a huge increase in popularity (due largely to the importation of many tree peonies from China), Linwood Gardens should be visited by more tourists and gardeners. Because it has been marketed only via booklets distributed locally in the spring, it has some visitors, but remains unknown to many. The owner of Linwood Gardens, Lee Gratwick, daughter of William Gratwick who died in the 1988, maintains the gardens and opens it for visitors in May, June, and July." (RIT Digital Media Library).

MacDaniels Nut Grove - Occupies 7 acres within the Cornell Plantations Upper Cascadilla natural area. Established in the 1930s by Professor LH MacDaniels to study temperate nut tree varieties, the grove was abandoned in the 1950s and has been recently renovated.

Mackenzie-Childs - Aurora.

Magic Garden - Newfield

Michaleen's Florist & Garden Center

National Register of Historic Places: New York - Linwood in Livingston County, a private garden which open to the public for the last two weekends in May, has an outstanding collection of 360 mature tree peonies.

New York Flora Atlas (NYFA)

New York State Nursery/Landscape Association

New York State Preservationist - A publication of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

National Association for Olmsted Parks - The Olmsted Research Guide Online is a database "that will index the 150,000 Olmsted landscape plans and drawings and other archival materials housed at Fairsted, the firm's former headquarters in Brookline, Massachusetts, and the 500,000 pages of related correspondence housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C." Database consists of descriptions only - you do no have access to the actual documents. See also Olmsted Associates Papers (Library of Congress) and Olmsted Associates: A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress. Central New York items located in the database include: O-We-Ra Point, property of George W. H. Allen on Cazenovia Lake (1915); Lone Oak (Loanoak), property of C. D. Beebe, Skaneateles (1907); Lake Delaware (Andes, Bovina and Delhi). The firm did work for various members of the Gerry family: Robert L., Angelica, Louisa M. and Peter G. between 1911 and 1932. (This collection includes a sketch of the boys camp located on the Gerry estate); Donald B.Webster, Palmyra (1939); Hillcrest Farm, property of Anson R. Flower, Watertown (1901-1907); Sangerfield Farm, property of William Carey Sanger, Sangerfield (1904-1912); W. G. Chard, Cazenovia (1912-1914); Arthur G. Chase, Syracuse and Fayetteville (1926-1939); Lee Jeffreys, New Hartford, (1929); J. Letchworth, Auburn (1879); W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo (1874);

Oneida Community Mansion House

Oriental Garden Supply - Al Pfeiffer has 70 cultivars of Japanese Maples at his store in Pittsford

Phoenix Flower Farm - Phoenix. "We are located on Lamson Road, between NYS routes 48 and 57 in Onondaga county about halfway between Syracuse and Oswego. The farm is easily accessible from routes 690 and 481, which connect with the thruway and interstate 81."

Plantasia Nursery - Spencer.

Plants for Life - Project to benefit the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance

Plantsmen Nursery - Locally grown plants, shrubs and trees, including a large selection of native plants. ""aspires to provide the greatest diversity of native plants in central New York. Besides being a nurseryman, owner Dan Segal has experience in wetlands management." 482 Peruville Road, Groton. (607-533-7193)

Renewing Syracuse - Sept/October 2003 Issue has an article on Oakwood Cemetery.

Root Glen - Gardens and nature trail located on College Hill Road, Kirkland and maintained by the horticultural staff at Hamilton College. Root Glen was originally the homestead of the Root family. Grant Garden has a large collection of Saunders' Tree Peonies. (Call 315 859-4691for more information.) Arthur P. Saunders, a chemistry professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, was an early hybridizer of peonies in the U.S. He developed many of the peonies in Winterthur Gardens. (For more about the tree peony see The gardener's peony: herbaceous and tree peonies by Martin Page, Timber Press, 2005). See Root Glen a hidden treasure for nature enthusiasts by Linda Murphy, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Jan. 21, 2005.

Der Rosenmeister - Heirloom roses. 190 Seven Mile Drive, Ithaca (607-273-8610). Leon Ginenthal "grows roses from more than a dozen countries, including Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden and Dorea. You can fall in love with them - they won't die on you. He's got drought-tolerant hardy-to Zone 5 roses bred by the late Dr. Robert Bayse of Texas, many of which are thornless, as well as Grifith Buck, Canadian Explorer, and rugosa roses, all of which have made a name for themselves in colder climates." (From "On the Road: Ithaca, New York" by Kathy Purdy, Horticulture Magazine, Special Northeastern Supplement, October/November, 2006. The article also mentions Wilcox General Store, Bedlam Gardens, the Plantsmen Nursery, Cornell Plantations, Ithaca Children's Garden, and Bakers' Acres.) Among the old roses sold are Charles de Mills, Koenigin von Danemark, La Belle Sultane, Madame Hardy, Maidens Blush, Stanwell Perpetual (exceptionally fragrant), Tuscany Superb, and William Lobb.

Salmon Creek Specialty Growers - Lansing. Custom grown plants. Sharon Gombas (607 533-7390)

Secret Gardens of the Flower City (Rochester) - WXXI-TV 21

Sonnenberg Gardens - Canandaigua

State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry - Syracuse. Has a Landscape Architecture Program. Houses the Fletcher Steele Archives. Steele was a landscape architect who created over 700 gardens, including Ancrum House for Angelica Gerry on Lake Delaware in Bovina, Delaware County, New York (near Delhi and Andes). The house was razed 1962, some of the stonework from the gardens remains. You can search for books in the Library Catalog. The Garden Club of America Collection, searchable via SIRIS also has information on the Gerry estate (Do an "all name" browse for Gerry). See under History for additional information on the Gerry family.

Sycamore Hill Gardens - 2130 Old Senca Turnpike, Marcellus

Syracuse Rose Society

Tender Loving Compost - "We can deliver our compost, and custom blends all over the Finger Lakes region." Fessenden Dairy, King Ferry (315-364-5762)

Tobeytown Hosta - Marion Tobey, 1520 Ridge Road, Lansing (607-533-4771)

Watson Greenhouse - Lafayette

Gateways

Cayuga County

Cooperstown Network: A Comprehensive Guide to Cooperstown, NY

Cortland Connection - Sue Reynolds

Syrahoo: Websites of the Syracuse, NY Metropolitan Area - This comprehensive, searchable directory of sites, primarily within Onondaga County, is maintained by Marie Williams.

Tier Net: Southern Tier Online - Binghamton & Broome County

Tug Hill Region

Yahoo! - New York: Counties and Regions

Yahoo! New York: Cities

Genealogy

Annals of Binghamton and of the Country Connected With It From the Earliest Settlement - Full text of the 1840 book by J. B. Wilkinson. With index.

Burned-Over District: 1810-1830 Federal Census Indices

Cazenovia Village Tax Lists for 1811 to 1833 - Daniel H. Weiskotten

Central New York Genealogical Society - With a list of names in their Surname Project.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. A search for Skaneateles Lake, for example, retrieves the following classified ad in the June 11, 1905 New York Sun (Second Section, p. 10 - Image 24): "On Skaneateles Lake: For sale, a fine plot of five acres, suitable for a gentleman's summer home, in the beautiful village of Skaneateles, N.Y., 18 miles west of Syracuse on the line of the New York Central and Syracuse Electric R. R. It has a 200-feet lake front and 190 feet on the main residential street. There are no mosquitoes or malaria; it is an ideal summer resort, and has the purest drinking water in the State: good sewerage and electric lights. The lake is the finest in central New York, being 17 miles long and ¾ mile wide. Will sell at $10,000. Address T. W. Specht, Skaneateles, N.Y."

Cortland County GenWeb Project - Vicki Hall Titus

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: New York

Delaware County NY Genealogy & History - Historical texts available include History of Delaware County by Jay Gould, Roxbury, Keeny & Gould, Publishers, 1856 and History of Delaware County by W.W. Munsell, 1797-1880.

1895 New York State Atlas - Alphabetical by city or town, provides population, county, location, and whether or not it had a post office, railroad or express office in 1895.

FamilySearch - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. You can also locate the closest family history center.

General History of Columbia County - By Captain Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, Everts & Ensign, 1878.

National Archives and Records Administration - A rich source for Genealogy research, there are sections on Vital Records, Ethnic Heritage and Research in Military Records. There are lists of Korean War Casualties by name and by town and Viet Nam War Casualties by name and by town. When you search you can limit your search to Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies. Try a search for Cortland to locate the World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from New York, 1946 (ARC Identifier: 305309).

NYGenWeb - Organized by county (Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Monroe, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tompkins, Tioga and Yates.) Has a useful New York Cemeteries Directory, organized by county. Highlights from the Onondaga County section include Photographs & Postcards, USGenWeb Project Archives Updates, Journals and Diaries, Cemeteries, Land Deeds, Court Records, Church Records, Census Records, Wills, Military Service & Pensions and Bible Records. RootsWeb also has a New York page. The Oswego County section has a number of publications including

New York State Library - Genealogy - New York State Census Records

Historical Documents Available Online

New York State Newspaper Project - "Identifying, describing, preserving, and making available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State since the first publication in 1725." Browse by title, City of Publication and County of Publication (Broome, Cortland, Cayuga, Tompkins, Chenango, Onondaga etc.)

Oswego County Underground Railroad - Judith Wellman

Personal Briefs from History of Broome County - Brief biographies of early settlers, organized by town.

Places Where Women Made History - National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary for historic places in Western and Eastern New York.

Political Graveyard: Cemeteries in New York - Lawrence Kestenbaum's database of historic cemeteries.

Rome Citizen Death Notices - Collected by Barbara Andresen. There are obituaries for 1846, 1847, 1856, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1872, 1878, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887 & 1888. Includes obituaries for John Bloomfield Jervis (January 12, 1885) and his brother Rev. Timothy B. Jervis (August 8, 1887). See also Rome Citizen Deaths and Oneida County Death Information.

76th New York State Volunteers: the Cortland Regiment - With a Regimental Roster

Seymour Library Local History Room - Auburn. Has a "partial list of genealogy research items available in the collections."

Skaneateles Historical Society - Provides access to St. Mary's Cemetery Gravestone Database, the Lakeview Cemetery Database, and a Newspaper Database (14,500 records compiled from the old newspaper announcements from the Columbian from 1831 to March 1853, the Democrat from 1843 to 1880 and the Free Press from 1881 through 1899.)

Towns and Historians of Cayuga County, New York

USGenNet - Has a list of Historical and Genealogical Societies of New York

Golf

CNY Golf Guide - Has golf course listings by county

Conklin Players Club - Conklin

Drumlins Country Club - Syracuse

Endwell Greens - Endwell

Golfcourse.com - Search by name or browse by state

Heritage Country Club - Johnson City

Hillendale Golf Course - Ithaca

Knickerbocker Country Club Golf Course Cincinnatus

Lafayette Golf & Country Club - Syracuse

Links at Hiawatha Landing - Apalachin

Links at Sunset Ridge - Marcellus

New York State Golf Association

Robert Trent Jones Golf Course - Cornell

Rome Country Club - Rome

Syracuse District Golf Association Member Clubs

Walden Oaks Country Club - Cortland

Yahoo Sports - Golf

Government and Politics

Association of Towns - With over 175 links to Individual Town Websites.

Capital Impact - Has information on various government entities in New York by zip code

Cayuga County - With page for Niles. They also provide Tax Maps (There is one for Niles.) See also CayugaNet

City of Binghamton

City of Canandaigua

City of Cortland - With information on the proposed Tioughnioga River Trail

City of Geneva

City of Ithaca

City of Syracuse

Congressional Record - Via GPO Access for 1995 thru 2002 (Volumes 141 thru 147). Portions of the Congressional Record in pdf format are available for 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999. You can also retrieve a specific page. A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves a Tribute to Retiring Homer Mayor Mary Alice Bellardini by Hon. James T. Walsh (House of Representatives, Tuesday, May 8, 2001, page E746).

Congressman Amo Houghton - 29th Congressional District

Congressman Jim Walsh - 25th Congressional District.

Congressman John McHugh - 23rd Congressional District of New York

Congressman Maurice Hinchey - 22nd Congressional District ranges from the Hudson Valley, through the Catskill Mountains, across the Southern Tier to the city of Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region.

Congressman Sherwood L. Boehlert - 24th Congressional District

Contacting the Congress - Provides names, e-mail addresses urls, and phone numbers for senators from New York.

Cortland County

Federal Election Commission - Offers Campaign Finance Reports and Data. With their Transaction Query System you can search for campaign contributions by contributor's name, committee and candidate. A search for Walsh for Congress Committee, for example, retrieves a list of 478 individuals who gave to Congressman James Walsh, Representative from from New York's 25th Congressional District. A search for Friends of Maurice Hinchey retrieves a list of 965 individuals who gave to Congressman Maurice Hinchey. You can see who has contributed to the National Committee for an Effective Congress.

Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Biography - First chapter from the book by Godfrey Hodgson describes Hillary Clinton's July 8, 1999 visit to Derrymore, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 500 acre estate in Pindars Corners, Delaware County.

Internal Reveune Service Political Organization Filing and Disclosure - With Filing Requirements. You can Search Political Organization Disclosures. Political Organization Section 527 Search Form 8871 Filings - You can browse an alphabtical list or search for a political organization name by keyword or phrase. (See Political Organizations for a detailed explanation of IRS rules regarding political parties, campaign committees for candidates for federal, state, or local office, and political action committees.) Random examples of Central New York Section 527 Political Organizations include Team De Regis (Syracuse), IBEW Local 2084 COPE (Liverpool), Aubertine Assembly 2000 (Watertown), Bipartisan Committee for Dan Ohara (Baldwinsville), Bragman for Assembly Re-election Committee (North Syracuse), Casella for Assembly Campaign (Canandaigua), Chenango County Republican County Committee (Norwich), Christensen Campaign Committee (Syracuse), Empire State ABC Political Action Committee (East Syracuse), Excelsior 2000 - Bragman - (North Syracuse), Friends for Hammill (Oswego), Friends of Farley (Schenectady), Friends of Jim Wrigh (Watertown), and Friends of Senator Librous Committee (Binghamton). " A new law (P.L. 106-230) imposes three different reporting and disclosure requirements on section 527 organizations. It requires section 527 political organizations to file periodic reports with the IRS. These political organizations are required to report the names and addresses (and occupation and employer if an individual) of all persons who contribute $200 or more after July 1, 2000, and of all persons receiving expenditures of $500 or more after July 1, 2000. In the Internal Revenue Service Political Organization Section 527 Search Form 8872 Filings there are links to the actual filings (in pdf format).

League of Conservation Voters - With annual National Environmental Scorecards showing how New York Senators and Representatives voted on environmental issues.

Legislative Gazette - The weekly newspaper of New York state government. Also available via the New York State Library (Scanned New York State Agency Documents) from 1995 to 2003.

Living in Dryden

Municipal Codes Online - Jeannette Voiland, Seattle Public Library. Other municipal code sources inlcude Municipal Code Corporation List of Codes and E-Codes: Municipal Codes on the Internet.

Madison County

New York State Assembly

New York State Association of Counties - With links to counties

New York State Banking Department - Provides a directory of Federal, State, and Local Government and Non Profit Financial Assistance Programs

New York State Board of Elections - Election Law was recently amended to provide for mandatory electronic financial disclosure by political committees registered with the State Board of Elections. Information on political contributions can be found in Campaign Finance . There is an Electronic Filing Database. You can view contributors, committees, committees by office an Alphabetical list of Active Committees.

New York State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness - "Tasked with identifying barriers to more efficient local government through merger, consolidation and or regionalization of services, and partnerships that enable localities to provide services more efficiently." They have commissioned studies by the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester, to identify ways local governments can reduce costs and improve services. See Study Looks at Options for Cortlandville, City Merger: Consolidation would return boundaries to where they were in 1900 by Aimee Milks, Cortland Standard, Arpil 10, 2008. (For related material see also Shared Municipal Services Incentive Program, 2007-2008 Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) and Central New York Regional Planning & Development Board Minutes for October 17, 2007 in which Mr. Jesse Olczak, Senior Analyst for the New York State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitivenes, describes the initiative. ) Among the reports available:

Developing Intermunicipal Arrangements for Highway Services: A Guide for Local Government Officials, March 2008 (64pp.)

Upstate New York: A House Divided

Consolidation, Dissolution and Annexation of Towns and Villages: How to Guide

Cayuga County Vehicle Maintenance Pool Service to the City of Auburn

Smart Growth in New York State: A Discussion Paper

Sprawl Without Growth: The Upstate Paradox

Impact of School District Consolidation on Property Values

New York State Consumer Protection Board - With information on the Do Not Call Registry and an online Do Not Call Complaint Form (pdf file).

New York State Library - Offers a Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York. Accumulated annual versions are available electronically for the years 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, and 1989. Publications from 1996 on have been scanned and are available in TIFF or GIF format. You must first find the document's OCLC number and then paste it into the search form provided.

New York State Office of General Services - Because it is fully searchable, this is a good resource for locating information about companies doing business with the state. There is a Table of Contents, a list of Services and Programs, Press Releases and a very useful State Telephone Directory, which includes addresses and phone numbers for various state agencies including the State Police, Parole Division (with correctional Facilities), Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

New York State Office of Real Property Services (NYSORPS) - Provides Municipal Profiles, (including cities in towns in Cortland, Tompkins and Onondaga counties). Provides information on Taxpayer Rights and full-text access to Assessors' Manual. You can also look up Rates for School Apportionment and find your County Real Property Director. There is full-text access to their monthly publication Uniform Standard with archives.

New York State Senate

New York Temporary State Commission on Lobbying - You can search their database for lobbyists, amounts contributed, employers, and contact information.

Onondaga County - With Property Tax Database

Open Secrets - Center for Responsive Politics tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. It provides detailed campaign finance profiles for politicians. In Donor Lookup you can find individual and soft money contributors by name, zip code, employer, candidate or recipient. The section on Political Action Committees is searchable and organized by category. The State Information Directory features campaign finance profiles of the 106th Congress (updated monthly). There is a Lobbyist Database where you can search for firms, clients and individual lobbyists.

Oswego County

Senator Charles E. Schumer

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Soft Money Laundromat - Common Cause's searchable database of special interest soft money contributions to the Democratic and Republican national party committees.

Yahoo! - New York - Also offers sections on New York: Cities and New York: Counties and Regions.

History

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945 - Over 160,000 black & white and color photographs of rural and small town America during the late 1930s from the Library of Congress. "The images are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II."

American Antiquarian Society - Provides access to online catalog. A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves over 40 results including The Impartial Citizen, an anti-slavery weekly newspaper (1849-1851) edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward. The notes for the record indicate that it was "formed by the union of the True American (Cortland, N.Y., 1846) and the Northern Star and Colored Farmer (non-extant?) and that the newspaper supported Gerrit Smith for president. AAS is a rich resource for American history and culture through 1876. There is a Guidebook which describes the collections. There is a useful section on Newspapers. "The Society has accumulated over 15,000 newspaper titles in 20,000 volumes. Today, AAS has more than two million issues on five miles of shelving."

American goliah, a wonderful geological discovery - 36 page pamphlet, published in Syracuse in 1869, about the discovery of the Cardiff Giant. Part of the Making of America Project which "includes over 1.5 million images, representing approximately 5,000 volumes of primary source materials." Other Central New York-related items that may be found in the MOA Project include Gazetteer and business directory of Cortland County, New York, for 1869, Historical collections of the state of New York (1851) by John Warner Barber and Pioneer history; or, Cortland County and the border wars of New York (1855) by Henry C. Goodwin. Papers relating to western New-York by E. B. (Edmund Bailey) O'Callaghan,

Wabanip's Speech to Assembled Iroquois Chiefs, April 30, 1798

Joseph Brant's Speech to British Government Concerning Indian Land Claims, Niagara, October 22, 1796

Moravian Journals Relating to Central New York, 1745-66 Notes, p. 21-22: "June 16. On the U.S. topographical chart but three ponds now appear in the town of Cortland. Some may have been drained, but in the five mentioned Ganneratareske and Oserigooch should be included. Ganiataragachrachat is the end lake, the first of a long group. Lake Ganneratareske is Big Lake in Preble, and the meaning given me was on the way to the long lake, or Oserigooch. Morgan's name for the west branch of the Tioughnioga is O-nan-no-gi-is-ka, shagbark hickory, and the sound is suggestive. Oserigooch is Big Lake in Tully. The other Tully lakes they did not see. The whole group is called by the Onondagas T-ka-ne-a-da-her-neuh, many lakes on a hill."
p. 32: “At last we came to a beautiful plain, on which stands an Indian town inhabited by Gajukas, named Ganatocheracht. This was the port for which we were bound, and from whence we were to continue our journey be land to Onondago.”
p. 39-40: "We then passed through the plain over several hills, and at last came to a lake, which the Indians called Ganiataragechiat. We reached it at the point where the before mentioned creeks empty into it. At first it flows from E. S. E. to N. N. W., and then, as we saw on the morrow, it inclines to the N. and at Gajuka to the N. by E. In the beginning it is from three to four miles wide, continues thus for a time, then widens from five to six miles, until at Gajuka it is from seven to eight miles wide. It is a very long stream, for we traveled 50 miles along it, and saw it later from ten to fifteen miles farther on, so that it must be a least seventy miles long before it flows out. Its water is as clear as crystal, and the Indians say deeper than they can tell. There are many fish it in, especially eels. Hills and mountains bound the lake on both sides. Many large and small creeks rush down from them and empty into the lake, often falling down over the rocks from a height of ten, twelve to twenty feet. Beyond the lake there is a particularly large creek, named Tschochnioke, which, as the Gajuka and another Indian told us, falls over the rocks from a height of 150 feet, and empties into the lake."

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 - Library of Congress collection "comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites." A subaltern's furlough; descriptive of scenes in various parts of the United States, upper and lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, during the summer and autumn of 1832, Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi (1896) and Travels through the United States of America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811 contain descriptions of upstate New York.

Annals of Binghamton and of the Country Connected With It From the Earliest Settlement - Full text of the 1840 book by J. B. Wilkinson. With index.

Antique Photo Gallery

- Dryden Mutual Insurance Company exhibition of photographs by Verne Morton (1868-1945) of Groton, New York. Images include:

Verne Morton against a grapevine, ca. 1903

Elm tree house from east, McLean

Groton lumber yard, office, etc., 1914

Riggs auction

Dennis Kelly and the desk he made, 1913-1914

Standard Typewriter shop (old), Groton, 1910

Anti-Rent Wars - Populist agrarian movement for land reform in the 1830s and 1840s, particularly militant near Albany and in the hill towns of Delaware, Greene and Schoharie counties. Research can be conducted in the following categories:

Patents

Landlords

Library of Congress subject headings

Antirent War, N.Y. 1839-1946

Land grants - New York (State)

Land Tenure - New York (State)

Landlord and tenant - New York (State) - History

Rent strikes - New York (State) - History
Key Words:
distress for rent, Downrenter's Rebellion, durable leases, lease in fee, landlordism, manorial tenures, feudal tenures, feudal privilege, landlackers, leasehold lands, leasehold estates, leasehold tenures, leases in perpetuity, manors, patents, patroons, patroonship, perpetual lease, perpetual tenancy, quarter sales, rent strike, rent system,

Books

Agrarian Conflict in Colonial New York (1940) - By Irving Mark

Anti-Rent Agitation in the State of New York, 1839-1846, by Edward P. Cheyney, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, circa 1888 (64pp. pamphlet.) Number two of the "Political Economy and Public Law Series" issued by the University of Pennsylvania, and edited by Edmund J. James.

Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (2001) - By Charles McCurdy. $45.00 at Amazon.com

Centennial History of Delaware County, New York : 1797-1897 - Chapter VIII - Anti Rent Troubles

Downrenter's Son - By Ruth Hall (fiction)

Free Soil - a Free People: the Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York (1997) - By Dorothy Kubik

Helderbergia, or, the Apotheosis of the Heroes of the Antirent War (1855) - By Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (fiction)

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York... by Jay Gould (1856)

History of Delaware County: Town of Middletown by W. W. Munsell

Land and Reform: Rural Society, Popular Protest and Party Politics in Antebellum New York (2000) - By Reeve Huston

Littlepage Manuscripts - Fiction, a trilogy by James Fennimore Cooper consisting of Satanstoe (1845), The Chainbearer (1845), and The Red-Skins (1846)

Parsonage Between Two Manors: Annals of Clover Reach (1925) - By Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard (fiction)

A Return to His Native Town: Martin Van Buren's Life at Lindenwald, 1839-1862 - National Park Service (207 pages in pdf format)

Tin Horns and Calico: A Decisive Episode in the Emergence of American Democracy (1945)- By Henry Christman
Legislation: Duer Report, Act Concerning Tenures by Lease, Armed & Disguised Act, Whipple Report
Names: Osman Steele; Edward O'Connor; John Van Sternburgh; Smith A. Boughton; Daniel W. Squires; William A. Duer; Thomas Ainge Devyr, editor of The Anti-Renter;
The Colonial Albany Social History Project is a good source for locating biographical information. It has an index.

Another valuable source of full-text materials is the Making of America project, a "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction" at the University of Michigan and Cornell. Relevant titles include: Books

Colonial Records of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1768-1784

Documentary History of the State of New-York (4 vols.)

General Index to the Documents of the state of New York, [1777-1857]

Geography of the State of New York - See pp. 129-131

Index to the Documents of the Legislature of New York, from the Year 1842 to the Year 1854, Inclusive - See pp. 160-162, 262, 264, 275-276

Life of Silas Wright, Late Governor of the State of New York (1852) - See pp. 178-185, 196-198, 207-213, 221-222

Life of William H. Seward with Selections from his Works (1855) - See pp. 60-62

Lives of Governors of the State of New York - See pp. 781-783

Reminiscences; Personal and Other Incidents; Early Settlement of Otsego County (1852) - By Levi Beardsley. Pp. 445-446. "Looking up to the north over the blue expanse of waters may be seen a high head-land jutting out into the lake, where stands Hyde Hall, the splendid and costly residence of the late George Clark, now owned and occupied by his son. Mr. Clark, the elder, was an Englishman by birth, and came to this country a few years after the revolution. He was a decendant in the direct line from Lieutenant Governonr Clark, a former provincial governor of New York, from whom the late George Clark (who I believe was his grandson) derived a large landed estate in Otsego county, as well as other portions of the state, and in other states also. George Clark encountered, at an early day, much opposition from his tenantry. The tenure by which they held their lands was not in accordance with the views of our citizens generally. They large estates were leased out, some on durable leases, at a small rent and and others for three lives or twenty-one years. I have a lease drawn out on a monstrous scroll of parchment, executed by his ancestor, and acknowledged before Sir William Johnson, now nearly one hundred years old, under which, as assignee, I used to own and occupy one of his farms in Cherry Valley. For many years I was tenant under Mr. Clark for this and other farms, and always found him kind and gentlemanly, so that I wanted no better landlord. He, of course, wanted his rents and what legally was due do him; and in exacting these his undoubted rights, he no doubt offended many of his tenants, who wanted a little more than their own. It was a tenure that I have often told him would give him trouble; for in my judgment, it was calculated to invite agressions on his rights, and its tendencies were adverse to the rapid growth and improvement of the country, as with us, each one wanted to be sole owner and master of what he possessed.
       I have no doubt that leasing real estate in agricultural districts is a most pernicious system, and so I used to argue with him. Had he lived till the present time, he would have probably found in the anti-rent demonstrations, good cause to change his views, so far at least as the profits of leasing are concerned.
       I am told that his son is inclined to pursue a different course, and by selling out the fee of his extensive domains, will relieve himself from much trouble; and I hope, will realize in the interest of his money, a better return than from the rents exacted under the old leases.
      To do justice to his father's memory, I wish to state as the result of my honest and unbiassed judgment, that had tenants treated him with respect and kindness, and paid him the rents honestly due to him, they would have had no good right to complain; but they disliked the relation of landlord and tenant, and hence he was frequently annoyed with insolent demands, which his high English notions of strict right would not allow him to concede. He could be as obstinate as they, and hence collisions. Otsego county certainly should not complain of Mr Clark, for he not only expended his rents derived from that county, but a far larger amount, in the erection of those elegant buildings that adorn his estate; and which are, undoubtedly, the most expensive structures in the county, and probably the best private establishment west of Albany." [Beardlsey continues for several more pages to describe Clarke and his estate.]

Articles

Anti-Rent Disturbance - New Englander and Yale review, January 1846, Volume 4, Issue 13, pp. 92-113.

The "Anti-Rent" Movement and Outbreak in New York - The American Whig review, December 1845, Volume 2, Issue 6 pp. 577-598. [There is an error in pagination, the article actually begins on p. 577 which is misnumbered 587.]

Unrest: Manorial Society and the Market in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1850 - By Martin Bruegel, Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Mar., 1996), pp. 1393-1424.

The Helderberg Advocate: A Public-Nuisance Prosecution a Century before Near v. Minnesota - By Ralph Frasca, Journal of Supreme Court History, Volume 26, Issue, November 2001, p. 215 - .

Bakery Adds Story to Developing Museum - By Aimee Milks, Cortland Standard, January 15, 2008. "A Durkee Bakery display will be part of the CNYLiving History Center, along with Brockway Museum."

Banners South: A Northern Community at War - By Edmund J. Raus, Jr. About the men of Company H, 23rd Regiment, New York Volunteers from Cortland, New York. Portions of this book can be read in Google Books.

Auburn - Was known as Hardenburg's Corners or Hardenburgh's Corners. (See Auburn, N. Y., its facilities and resources by D. Morris Kurtz, 1884.)

Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England - Electronic edition of the 1855 work by Samuel Ringgold Ward. Born into slavery in 1817, Ward was a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society, published the Impartial Citizen, an anti-slavery newspaper and taught at the Free Central College of McGrawville. "In 1846 I became pastor of the Congregational Church in Cortland Village, New York, where some of the most laborious of my services were rendered, and where I saw more of the foolishness, wickedness, and at the same time the invincibility, of American Negro-hate, than I ever saw elsewhere. Would that I had been more worthy of the kindness of those who invited me to that place--of those friends whom I had the good fortune to win while I lived there--especially of those who showed me the most fraternal kindness during the worst, longest illness I have suffered throughout life, and while passing through severe pecuniary troubles. My youngest son, William Reynolds Ward, is buried there; and there were born two of my daughters, Emily and Alice, the former deceased, the latter still living." Ward also describes his role in the Jerry Rescue Case in Syracuse. "Residing then at Syracuse, we went home, arriving on Wednesday, the first day of October. We found the whole town in commotion and excitement. We soon learned the cause. A poor Mulatto man, named Jerry, at the suit of his own father had been arrested under the Fugitive Law, had been before the Negro-catcher's court, had escaped, had been pursued and retaken, and was now being conveyed to prison. I went to the prison, and, in company with that true sterling friend of the slave, the Reverend Samuel J. May, was permitted to go in and see the man. He had fetters on his ankles, and manacles on his wrists. I had never before, since my recollection, seen a chained slave. He was a short, thick-set, strongly built man, half white though slave born. His temperament was ardent, and he was most wonderfully excited. Though chained, he could not stand still; and in that narrow room, motioning as well as he could with his chained, manacled hands, and pacing up and down as well as his fetters would allow, fevered and almost frenzied with excitement, he implored us who were looking on, in such strains of fervid eloquence as I never heard before nor since from the lips of man, to break his chains, and give him that liberty which the Declaration of Independence assumed to be the birthright of every man, and which, according to the law of love, was our duty towards a suffering brother." (p. 118) (From Documenting the American South.)

Biographical Review: The Leading Citizens of Delaware County, NY (1895)

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. For example, there are photographs (with supplementary material) of four buildings in Homer: the Augustus Donnelly House, the Jedediah Barber House, Calvary Episcopal Church and the Sig Sautelle Circus Training House, South Main Street (State Route 11), Homer, Cortland County, NY, taken by photographer Jack. E. Boucher, 1966. ("Built 1902, living quarters on first and second floors, training area for acrobats on third floor, training ring for animals in cellar." In 1919 it housed migrant workers, in 1960 it was a restaurant). There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." [Data Page 2].

Cayuga County New York: Historian's Office

Cayuga County, Springport, Ledyard, Aurelius, Union Springs, Finger Lakes... - Bill Hecht's site provides maps, old photographs, genealogy, history and geology. Two chapters from the History of Cayuga (1927) by Florence Pharis McIntosh describe the early settlement of Cayuga County.

Cazenovia, Fenner and Nelson History Pages - Created by Daniel Herman Weiskotten, "late historian, archaeologist and Cazenovia Town Historian." Weiskotten died on May 6, 2005 at the age of 45.

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, New York - With a searchable online collection of Rochester Images which may be printed for personal, educational, or research use. The database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County and currently includes at least 2,000 images. Rochester History, a quarterly magazine which began publication in January of 1939, is completely indexed and available in its entirety online in pdf format. With a Table of Contents and an Index, this is a rich resource for material on Western New York history.

Central New York Library Resources Council: Digital Collections

Chenango County Historical Society

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Clinton Liberal Institute - Fort Plain. Destroyed by fire March 25, 1900.

COMPANY I, 185 Regiment, N.Y.V. - From the April 19, 1888, Veteran's Column of Fayetteville's "Weekly Recorder" newspaper.

Coreorgonel - Principal village of the Cayuga located at the southern end of Cayuga lake (Tiohero) - present-day Ithaca. Destroyed September 24, 1779 by Lt. Col. Henry Dearborn.

DeWitt Historical Society - Ithaca

Documentary history of the state of New-York - By E.B. O'Callaghan. Contents include: Papers relating to the First Settlement at Onondaga, and the Discovery of the Salt Springs (pp. 31-56). (From the Michigan Making of America Project).

Eldbridge Gerry - Moon Library Special Collections at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry in Syracuse houses the Fletcher Steele Archives. Steele was a landscape architect who created over 700 gardens, including Ancrum House for Angelica Gerry, in Bovina, Delaware County, New York. For more on the Gerry family see Politics to philanthropy: Prominent family had link to Delaware County, Oneonta Daily Star, January 18, 2003. The Gerry family was also responsible for the construction, in 1922, of St. James' Church in Lake Delaware, built by Miss Angelica Gerry as a memorial to her mother. It was designed by the architect Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), a professor at MIT and part of a group known as the the Boston Gothicists. Cram was considered the leading ecclesiastical architect of his time. He was known for his French Gothic style and was one of the architects of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and many college and university buildings at Williams, Wellesley, West Point, Princeton and Sweet Briar. Elbridge T. Gerry died on February 26, 1999, at Lake Delaware Farm, Delhi. "He also served as president of the Lake Delaware Boys Camp, a not-for-profit camp founded in 1909 by his father, which he and his family sponsored and operated for underprivileged young boys principally from the greater New York metropolitan area on their farm, Lake Delaware Farm, Delhi." The term gerrymander, arose from the combination of the name Gerry with salamander, which describes the shape of the political district created by Massachusetts Governor Eldbridge Gerry for political purposes that looked like a salamander. For more about the Gerry family see the Gerry Family Papers at Hartwick College, particularly the Detailed Inventory. The Garden Club of America Collection, searchable via SIRIS also has information on the Gerry estate (Do an "all name" browse for Gerry).

Existing Railroad Stations in New York State - Charles P. Woolever

Ezra Cornell Papers - Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections provides this searchable collection of the papers Ezra Cornell (1828-1878). There is also an online exhibition, Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a Nineteenth-Century Life, as well as a genealogy of the Cornell family (scanned pages of the 1902 book Genealogy of the Cornell Family by Rev. John Cornell and a guide.

Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards - Blake McKelvey's article about Rochester's horticultural history was originally published in The Rochester Historical Society Publications, Vol XVIII (1940), 121-169. There is a section on George Ellwanger and Patrick Barry.

Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church - Provides full text of A History of Herkimer County (1856) by Nathaniel S. Benton (but you'll probably need to enlarge the font in your browser to read it). Other Contents offered at the site include The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks (1897) by A. L. Byron-Curtiss and maps, photographs and articles on the region.

Gallica: bibliothèque numérique - Collection of electronic texts at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. See also France in America / La France en Amérique , a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress and the BNF. A search for Saint John de Crèvecoeur locates the text and illustrations for

Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New-York depuis l'année 1785 jusqu'en 1798 (in French only). The search (recherche) results also include illustrations (Mosaique) from the work: there are images of Késkétomah, ancien Sachem de la Nation Onondaga and Koohassen, guerrier de la Nation Onéida.

Gazetteer and business directory of Cortland County, New York, for 1869 - From Cornell's Making of America collection. The Gazetteer of Towns, which includes historical information on each town, starts on p. 71. Here is an interesting fact about Cortlandville (p. 73): "In the south-west part of the town are three small ponds, fed by springs, and furnishing a large amount of marl, from which an excellent quality of lime is produced. The marl, as it comes form the ponds, is generally of an ash color, but whitens on exposure to the air. When partially dried it is moulded into the form of bricks, which are thoroughly dried and burned. In some places this marl is twenty feel thick." Also lists names of residents Cortland County: Cincinnatus (p. 111- 115), Cortlandville (115-129), Cuyler (130-137), Freetown (137-139), Harford (141-143), Homer (143-156), Lapeer (156-159), Marathon (p. 160-165), Preble (165-167), Scott (169-171), Solon (171-173), Taylor (175-177), Truxton (177-183), Virgil (183-193), Willett (193-196).

George Washington Papers - Library of Congress. A search for Onondaga retrieves 14 results, stanwix 110, (including George Washington to Seneca Indians, January 19, 1791). Also try searching for these terms: Mohawk

Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum - 19th century philanthropist, social reformer and leader of anti-slavery activities whose papers are preserved in the Syracuse Department of Special Collections. There is also Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamplet Collection (1793-1875), with an index.

Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums - Digital Library at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, consists of over 1600 volumes (including a good collection of early travel books describing North America. A title search for Onondaga, for example, retrieves the following titles:

Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the six nations of Indians in 1779 (1887) by Frederick Cook. (See The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh, p. 115. "He was the first settler of and owner of a tract of land at what was called Hardenbergh's Corners, now the flourishing city of Auburn, N.Y."...)

The history of the five Indian nations of Canada (1747) by Cadwallader Colden

Travels in New-England and New-York (1821) by Timothy Dwight

Travels in North America in the years 1827 and 1828 (1829) by Basil Hall. In Geneva, New York, Hall observed "As we drew onwards to the west, we observed a gradual acceleration in the speed at which the people swallowed their meals." (Volume I, p.138)

Guide to the Harold L. Creal Papers - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. "Harold Leroy Creal graduated from Cornell University in 1921. He operated a dairy farm in Cortland County, New York. From 1932 to 1938, he served as Supervisor of the Town of Homer, New York. He also served in the New York State Assembly from 1939 to 1950, as Director of the New York State Fair from 1950 to 1955, as Director of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, and as Director of the Cooperative Grange League Federation."

Hagley Museum & Library - Wilmington, Delaware. The Library collection documents the history of American business and technology. (A keyword search in the online catalog for Cortland retrieves 19 records in which the word Cortland appears. Among the Cortland-related businesses and businessmen represented in the collection are A.R. Peck: manufacturers of Peck's cash register, W.H. Gunlocke Chair Company, Cortland Wagon Company, Brockway Motor Truck Company, Brewer-Titchener Corp., Elmer A. Sperry, founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, and the Marshall Company.)

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program - "Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections." In January 2006, the Women Working collection consisted of "7,500 pages of manuscripts 3,500 books and pamphlets 1,200 photographs." You can

browse by subject and genre,

search by keyword, author, title and subject and

search the full text. Currently consists of two collections:

Women Working, 1870-1930 and

Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930. A search for Cortland, for example retrieved 86 items, including

Trials and triumphs of an orphan girl, or, The biography of Mrs. Deiadamia Chase, physician and phrenologist by Luna M. Hammond, Cortland, N.Y.: Van Slyck & Hitchcock, 1859. A search for Skaneateles retrieved the following from Dexter C. Bloomer's Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer (Boston: Arena, 1895): "This needed rest she therefore sought at Dr. Jackson's water cure on the beautiful shores of Skaneateles Lake. Here secluded from public gaze she spent some weeks in retirement; and yet not entirely so, for she was there invited and consented to deliver her lecture on Woman's Enfranchisement to the inmates of the cure." (p. 129). On pages 14 and 15 Amelia Bloomer recollects: "My earliest recollections are of a pleasant home in Homer, Cortlandt County, New York. Here I was born, and here the first six years of my life was passed. But little of these early days can now be recalled after sixty years have been added to them, yet there are a few incidents that are so deeply impressed upon memory that they seem but the occurrence of a week ago. First I recall the visit of some Indians to my father's house, and the latter buying a large knife of them. The Indians, my father and the knife come before me now as though they were indeed a reality of the present. Again, a scene comes before the mind's eye of my brother and myself looking from an upper window and seeing some Indians knocking at the door of a small untenanted house opposite to us. My brother, who was a few years older than myself, called out 'come in.' The Indians opened the door and stepped in, then out, and hearing a voice, but seeing no one, while my brother and I danced behind the blind at the trick we had played on them. Several children were on their way to school. One little girl jumped upon the wheel of a wagon which stood in front of a house, intending to get in and ride to school. The horse became frightened while she stood on the wheel, and ran away, throwing her violently to the ground and injuring her severly. The mirth of childhood was turned to sadness, and we trudged on to school, after seeing her unconscious form carried into the house." Other titles in the collection include

History of Schohaire County and border wars of New York (1845) by Jeptha R. Simms; and

American communities : brief sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, the Shakers, Oneida, Wallingford, and the Brotherhood of the New Life (1878) by William Alfred Hinds.

Feminism, by Correa Moylan Walsh (New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1917) has the following footnote "Back in 1843 John A. Collins, an abolitionist, anarchist, communist, vegetarian, and woman suffragist, founded a community in Skaneateles, N.Y...."(p. 124, footnote 21).

Historic Cazenovia - Photographs. Maintained by Don Crossman

Historic Central New York - Subtitled "Celebrating 19th Century Social Reform", this New York History Net site includes information on Gerrit Smith, Harriet Tubman, John Humphrey Noyes and Beriah Green. Other sections inlcude Underground Railroad in New York State, Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Central New York Freedom Trail.

Historic Marker Search - New York State Museum

Historical Postcards [of Cortland]

History of American Socialisms - Full-text of the 1870 book by John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community in upstate New York (Making of America Project)

History of Cayuga County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers - By Elliot G. Storke, assisted by Jas. H. Smith, Published by D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. 1879.

History of Delaware County - By Jay Gould, Roxbury, Keeny & Gould, Publishers, 1856.

History of Delaware County (1797-1880) - By W.W. Munsell.

History of Madison County - Rootsweb site provides the full-text of the History of Madison County by L. M. Hammond, Syracuse, NY, 1872. Has chapters on DeRuyter (De Ruyter) and Indians.

Jay Gould - Financier born in 1836 in West Settlement (later renamed Roxbury), Delaware County. See also Roxbury

John Davison Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, was born July 8, 1839, on Michigan Hill, in Richford, Tioga County, the son of William Avery ("Bill") Rockefeller and Eliza Davison Rockefeller. Rockefeller married Eliza Davison, the daughter of John Davison, a prosperous farmer from Niles, Cayuga County, on February 18, 1837. In 1843, the family moved from Richford to Moravia, where they lived for six years. The family also lived in Owego for three years and in 1853 moved to Strongville, Ohio. Albert I. Berger, Department of History, University of North Dakota has written an account of William Avery Rockefeller in William Avery Rockefeller of ND. Amazon.com provides the first chapter from Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. See also John D. Rockefeller: A Character Study by Ida M. Tarbell, McClure's Magazine, July 1905, pp.[226]-249. The Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, a division of Rockefeller University, provides history, biographies, a family tree and a bibliography about the family.

Library of Congress Department of Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Search records in the 30 collections of the Prints and Photographs Division. With Subject Index. A search for Cortland, for example, in All Text retrieves 30 results which include the following images by photographer John Collier (1913-1992) taken in 1941 when he worked as a photographer under Roy E. Stryker for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. Photographs include Barn door near Cortland, New York, County fair sign near Cortland, New York, New England prudence near Cortland, New York, New Englanders shuck corn and talk politics near Cortland, New York, This diner depends on the "truckers" for its trade. Near Cortland, New York (Riverside Diner), The comforts of home" lure tourists into private family tourist rests. Near Cortland, New York.

Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton - William W. Campbell, 1849. (From the University of Rochester Department of History History of the Erie Canal which has put a number of full-texts online in the Erie Canal Bibliography.) Of particular interest is Clinton's Private Canal Journal (1810) consisting of Part 1: New York to Three River Point, to Oswego, back to Three River Point, and on to Baldwinsville, Part 2: Baldwinsville to Black Rock and Part 3: Black Rock to New York. This journal contains many descriptions of many Central New York locations, including the following passage on Oneida Lake. "We arrived at Mrs. Jackson’s tavern, at seven o’clock, near the mouth of Wood Creek, which enters Oneida Lake from the north-east. To the west, the eye was lost in the expanse of waters, there being no limits to the horizon. A western wind gently agitated the surface of the waters. A number of canoes darting through the lake after fish in a dark night, with lighted flambeaux of pine knots fixed on elevated iron frames, made a very picturesque and pleasing exhibition. We walked on the beach, composed of the finest sand, like the shores of the ocean, and covered with a few straggling trees. Here we met with an Indian canoe, filled with eels, salmon, and monstrous cat-fish. In another place we saw the native of the woods cooking his fish and eating his meal on the beach. We could not resist the temptation of the cold bath. On returning to the house, we found an excellent supper prepared; the principal dish was salmon, dressed in various ways."

The Life and Times of George Peck Written by Himself - Published by Nelson & Phillips in 1864, the book describes the life of George Peck, a Methodist preacher, who was born in 1797 in Otsego County, and moved with his family to Hamilton, Madison County. The book describes his travels as a circuit preacher in upstate New York. Chapter 3 covers the Cortland Circuit. From the Holiness Classics Collection at the Wesley Center for Applied Theology, sponsored by Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. "In the morning I rode to Jesse Hale's, some six miles above Great Bend. Father Hale was a mighty hunter. In fact, he came from Vermont, and fixed his home in this new region for the purpose of pursuing game in the Harmony Woods – the great forest which then stretched from the Susquehanna to the Delaware….He was the father-in-law of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet."

The Lineaments of Guilt - Describes how photographs were used as evidence in a 1870 Binghamton murder case. From Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence in Nineteenth-Century American Courts by Thomas Thurston, part of American Quarterly: Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies.

Lives, Livelihoods and Economic Development Planning: The Impact of the Rubbermaid Plant Closing on Dislocated Workers in Cortland, New York - PhD dissertation by Jennifer Sarah Tiffany, Cornell University, 2004. See also Beneria L, Santiago LE. The impact of industrial relocation on displaced workers: a case study in Cortland, New York, Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1, 78-89, 2001.

Montgomery County - In the 1780s Montgomery County stretched from Canada to Pennsylvania and encompassed much of Central New York. For various maps of New York in the 18th century, see New York State Historical Maps, in particular A Map of the Province of New York, 1776 by Claude Joseph Sauthier NYPL Digital Gallery and The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789

Murder Trial of Chester Gillette - Points of counsel and other archival material from the sensational capital murder case, the subject of An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York). See also the June 26th, 2006 lecture, part of the New York Court of Appeals Lecture Series, a webcast of Dreiser's "An American Tragedy": The Law and the Arts with speakers Susan N. Herman, Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School and Francesca Zambello, Director of the Metropolitoan Opera's production of An American Tragedy by Tobias Picker. See also:

Jailhouse diary surfaces a century after convicted killer's executionby Evan Geibel, Cortland Standard, March 10, 2007. Chester Gillette's diary was donated to Hamilton College by Gillette's grandniece, Marlynn McWade-Murray, of Tallahassee, Florida.

Diary offers insight but no answers: Collection of Chester Gillette’s prison dairy and letters published by Evan Geibel, Cortland Standard, January 21, 2008.

Theodore Dreiser Web Source

- A vast amount of primary source material is available online from the Theodore Dreiser Collection at the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania. You can browse or search by correspondent. "I must tell you once again, Dreiser, that I have read the last five or six chapters of Book 2 with real agony. The slow, fatal working-up to the death of Roberta is one of the grimmest and most gripping tragedies that I have read in years. The whole idea was so powerful that I had difficulty in re-editing it for you. " T. R. Smith to Theodore Dreiser, June 3, 1925. Thomas Robert Smith, Dreiser's editor at Boni & Liveright, was referring to Dreiser's American Tragedy.

National Archives and Records Administration Archival Information Locator - You can locate records pertaining to the arrest and trial of Susan B. Anthony. On the Expert Search page, in the Enter Description Level Identifiers section at the bottom of the form, do a Series search for NDNYCRIM and limit the search to Only Descriptions Linked to Digital Copies. This will retrieve 10 documents, including an 18 page transcript of the hearing including examination of witnesses by the defense and prosecution atorneys, and Susan B. Anthony's testimony in her own defense.

National Register of Historic Places - "Nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation...properties listed on the Register include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture." Includes Central New York sites. You can search by name, location, agency and theme.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for Cortland retrieves over 250 records which includes a number of historic church records in the Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York Collection at Cornell University. A search for Skaneateles retrieves 48 records among which is a manuscript diary owned by the New-York Historical Society - Sketches of My Life, a Diary, 1830-1831, by John Petheram (1809-1858) which includes a description of a trip he made to Skaneateles, N.Y.

National Women's Hall of Fame - Seneca Falls

New York State Books in Digital Form- State University of New York at Stony Brook

New York State and the Civil War - Compiled by Sue Greenhagen, a technical services librarian at SUNY Morrisville, who also maintains the 114th New York State Volunteer Infantry: A Regimental Archive and the Civil War Letters of Galutia York (Galutia York was the oldest son of a farm family from Hubbardsville, New York).

New York State Archives Digital Collections

- "The Digital Collections provide a gateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Through the collection, you can access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials." Below are links to a selection of photographs from the collection depicting Central New York. See Digital Librarian: Adirondacks - History for additional images.

Gerrit Smith House. Peterboro, N.Y. (1916)

Solar Process. Several Salt Well Houses Where Brine Is Pumped; Flats and Covers. Syracuse, N.Y. (1908)

Wire Drawing, Wickwire Factory Cortland, New York (1916)

Shoe finishing. Endicott Johnson Plant, Endicott NY, 1917

Group of Indian Children. Onondaga Reservation, N.Y. (1910)

Amherst-Cornell Hockey Game on Beebe Lake, Ithaca (January 14, 1922)

Toboggan Slide on Beebe Lake. Ithaca - February, 1924

Delta Dam (1916) - General view from below; Gate House, locks of relocated Black River Canal, a tow and a change bridge. Four miles north of Rome

Seneca Corn-husk Dolls Dressed in Tribal Costumes (1937)

Group of farm workers in a hop field - 1890-1910? "View into a hop field where hop pickers - men, women, and children are working. The area, near Cooperstown, is dubbed "Hop City." New York was a leader in the production of hops by 1849. The major producing counties were Otsego, Oneida, Madison, Schoharie, and Montgomery."

Erie Canal. Remains Of Old Aqueduct Over The Mohawk River

Panorama near Callicoon - 1890-1910?

Civil War. Prison Camp in Elmira, N.Y. during Civil War

Glass factory: man tamping clay with bare feet - Corning

Binghamton State Hospital - 1890-1910?

State Prison in Auburn - 1880-1910?

View of Black River Falls in Watertown - 1880-1910?

Queen of the Fairies and her attendants. Cortland - ca 1910

Oswego Life Saving Station - 1880-1910?

Fish Rack (Oneida)

New York State Historical Association - Cooperstown

New York State Historical Literature - Cornell University Library collection consists of 691 New York State Historical pamphlets and monographs. Titles of interest include:

Auburn, N. Y., its facilities and resources - By D. Morris Kurtz, 1884. [CONTENTS Chapter 8: History of Auburn, pp. 35-37; Chapter 9: The Theological Seminary, pp. 37-42; Chapter 9: The Auburn Prison, pp. 42-49 etc.]

Groton, N. Y. and vicinity - From "Grip's Valley Gazette", Vol. VII, NO 10, Albany, N.Y., October, 1899 [58pp.] There is an index on p. 58.

Historical Sketch of the town of Groton by M. M. Baldwin

Indian Names in New-York, with a selection from other states, and some Onondaga names of plants, etc.... by William Martin Beauchamp

Millard Fillmore Papers

The Natural, Statistical and Civil History of the State of New York by James Macauley (with Volume 2)

Notes of Other Days in Skaneateles, written for the Skaneateles democrat in 1876, by the Rev. Wm. M. Beauchamp

Reminiscences of Syracuse by Timothy Collingwood Cheney (1808-1871)

Revolutionary Soldiers Resident or Dying in Onondaga County, N.Y.; by William Maritin Beauchamp (1830-1925)

The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall (1871-1918)

An Historical Review of Waterways and Canal Construction in New York State by Henry Wayland Hill, Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Volume Twelve, Edited by Frank H. Severance, (1908)

New York History Net - Has a section on Historic Central New York

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - With information on Historic Sites

New York State Library - Has a searchable online catalog. There is a Finding Aids to Manuscripts Collections. Collections relating to Central New York include the papers of William M. Beauchamp, Episcopalian minister who was the "greatest authority on the history and institutions of the Iroquois", Arthur C. Parker, archaeologist, writer and descendant of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, and Lulu Stillman who served as stenographer for Assemblyman Edward Everett, chairman of the New York State Indian Commission from 1919 to 1922.

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New York State Preservationist - Archives back to Spring 2000.

Newspapers in Virginia Database - Searchable by title, name/place, subject and keyword, this datablase consists of catalog records for almost 6,000 individual newspaper titles published throughout the country, not just in Virginia. For example, a subject search for Afro-Americans locates 10 pages of results for African American newspapers. (There are 25 records for New York.) Another useful resource is Newspapers in Virginia, a Bibliography of American Newspapers Examined by the Virginia Newspaper Project, an alphabetical list grouped by state, county, and city.

Newark Valley Historical Society

The Nineteenth Century in Print the Making of America in Periodicals - Includes the article: Susquehanna by T. Addison Richards, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volune 7, Issue 41, October 1853.

The Northern Frontier - Report (in pdf format) issued by the National Park Service, Northeast Region, Boston Support Office, 2002. ""The Northern Frontier study area extends over an expanse of lands situated in present-day upstate New York. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this region was a frontier of European settlement and for centuries had been the home of numerous indigenous peoples, notably members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy." Covers the period 1730-1815. The Appendix is "a complete listing from the State and National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks that are within the Northern Frontier Special Resource study area." Additional information is provided in Northern Frontier Special Resource Study.

Object Lessons: Indians, Objects, and Revolution - Article by Kirk Davis Swinehart, Common-place, Vol. 2 · No. 3 · April 2002. "This essay derives from his dissertation, "This Wild Place: Sir William Johnson among the Mohawks."

Old Mohawk Turnpike - By Nelson Greene, Mohawk Valley Historic Association. 270 pp. transcribed by Joan Redmond and others as a project of Fulton County NYGenWeb and Herkimer and Montgomery County NYGenWeb.

185th New York Volunteer Infantry - Sixth Onondaga County Regiment; Onondaga and Cortland Regiment; Otsego Regiment

Onondaga Historical Association - Offers an online collection of over 150 photographs of the Franklin Automobile made by the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company of Syracuse, which ceased production in 1934.

Oneida Community Collection - "Inventories and bibliographies relating to Oneida Community materials held at Syracuse and elsewhere, the full text of several books written by, and about, members of the Community, and 140 selected photographs..." (Department of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library.) See also Developing the interpretive plan for Oneida Community Mansion House by Moseley, Bruce M. and Schwartz, Helen S., CRM 24, no. 9 (2001), pp. 29-32. and Oneida Community Mansion House.

Panoramic Photographs - American Memory, Library of Congress. These are photographs of exceptional detail and clarity, Examples include:

Panorama of Auburn (1909)

Auburn Works No. 1 (1907)

Theological Seminary (1909) - Auburn

Panorama of Binghamton (1909)

Carthage (1911)

Hamilton College (1916) - Clinton

N.Y.C. Terminal (1915) - Corning

Empire Bridge Company (1909) - Elmira

Four Gable Place - Geneva

Hobart College - Geneva

Water Front - Geneva

Cornell University (1909) - Ithaca

Panorama of Oswego (1909)

River front - Oswego

Genesee River view (1914) - Rochester

Rochester (1896)

Syracuse University #2 (1909)

College football game (1908) - Syaracuse

Panorama of Utica (1909)

Watertown Square (1909) - Watertown

Pioneer history; or, Cortland County and the border wars of New York. From the earliest period to the present time (1855) by Henry C. Goodwin. (Making of America Project.)

Political Graveyard: Cemeteries in New York - Lawrence Kestenbaum's database of historic cemeteries

Preservation League of New York State - With a list of the Most Endangered Properties in New York State. Central New York properties that appear on the list include U.S. Route 20 and the Corning Free Academy.

Preserve America Communities - Created by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservaion and the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Commerce, Agriculture and Houseing and Urban Development. Of the ten communities in New York State more than half are from upstate New York: Roxbury, Ithaca, Saratoga Springs, Rochester, Brockport.

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Library of Congress. A search for "Cortland County" located 27 records including several from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection:

Farm and good earth near Cortland, New York, to be optioned by Resettlement Administration. Photo by Paul Carter, April 1936.

Barn door near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941.

County fair sign near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941.

New England prudence near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941. (WCTU sign reads: "Total Abstinence Not Moderation will reduce accidents.")

New England prudence near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941. (WCTU sign reads: "Liquor means Alcohol. Alcohol means poison. Why drink poison.")

New Englanders shuck corn and talk politics near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941.

Cast-iron fountain piece originally from Milan, Italy (fifty years ago), on the lawn of a house in Cortland, New York. Photo by Jack Delano, September 1940. [Could this be Cortland, Illinois? Other photos by Delano depict that location.]

This diner depends on the "truckers" for its trade. Near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941. (Riverside Diner)

"The comforts of home" lure tourists into private family tourist rests. Near Cortland, New York. Photo by John Collier, October 1941. Sign reads: "Tourists. Innerspring Mattresses, Shower Bath, Garage. Mrs. Eva. M. Eldredge"

Private Letters of James S. Griffing & J. Augusta Goodrich - "Collection of letters and journal entries authored by James S. Griffing and J. Augusta Goodrich span the period from 1841 to 1882. James and Augusta grew up within a mile of each other in the area known as Goodrich Settlement, west of Owego, in Tioga County, New York." Has information on the November 30, 1849 Murder of Nathan Adler

Rochester History - Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, New York.

Rochester History - There is a Table of Contents and an index. Among the articles is Diary of a Young Girl The Erie Canal in 1822. Part I - Edited by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History, Summer 2000, Vol. LXII, No. 3.

Rome Citizen Death Notices - In 1846, 1847, 1856, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1872, 1878, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887 & 1888. Includes the 1885 obituary for John Bloomfield Jervis. (Collected by Barbara Andresen.)

Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection - Cornell University. Samuel Joseph May was a Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist in Syracuse. The collection consists of 10,000 digitized "pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, newsletters of local and regional anti-slavery societies, sermons, essays, and arguments for and against slavery" donated to Cornell University in 1870 by the American abolitionist Reverend Samuel J. May. A phrase search for Gerrit Smith, for example, retrieves many items.

The Search for Hunts Falls - by Porter Kingsbury Bennett, Cortland County Chronicles, Volume 3, 1979. Bennet quotes form the Historical and Statistical Gazetter of New York by J. J. French, 1860. "Lapeer was formed from Vergil May 2, 1845 and embraces the South East quaeter of that Township. It lies upon the high ridges west of the Tiooughnioga River on the South border of the County wst of the ctner. The declivities of the hills ar precipitous. 'Luce Hill' in the northwestern part of the Town is 1600 to 1700 feet above the tide. The streams are small brooks. Upon Fall Creeknear the south border of the town is a wild and beautiful cascade 71 feet high known as Hunts Falls. The soil is sandy and gravelly loan. Nearly one half the town is unsettled. Hunts Corners contains 10 houses. Lapeer post office is near the center of town. There is no church edifice in town. The first settler was Phineas Grant, a colored man."

Selkirk Lighthouse - Salmon River & Lake Ontario (From Jim Walker's WWW Virtual Library - World's Lighthouses, Lightships & Lifesaving Stations. See also his Tibbetts Point Lighthouse and Sodus Bay Lighthouse Lighthouse & Museum.)

76th New York State Volunteers: the Cortland Regiment - With a Regimental Roster

Small-Town America: Stereoscopic views from the Robert Dennis Collection - 12,000 photographs of small towns in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as "they were captured in stereoscopic views from the 1850s to the 1910s. In addition to showing buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages, the photographs show farming, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local celebrations, natural disasters, people and costumes." Central New York is strongly represented: Binghamton (26 images), Cazenovia (18 images), Clinton (32 images), Central New York (65 images), Cooperstown (47 images), Elmira (37 images), Homer (23 images), Ithaca (40 images) and Syracuse (29 images). (From the New York Public Library Digital Library Collections.)

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - Searchable Library of Congress collection offers many i of New York State (Adirondack Mountains - Corning, Crown Point - Opalescent River, Oriskany - Youngstown.)

Towns and Historians of Cayuga County, New York

Tully Ice Harvest: History

- Pulse of the Planet, February 12, 2009. The Tully Ice Harvest Festival is held annually in February. See also:

Tully Ice Harvest: Prepare, February 5, 2009. "We're in upstate New York's farm country, where a team of horses is pulling a plow, clearing the snow off a frozen lake, just in time for the annual Ice Harvest. I'm Jim Metzner, and this is the Pulse of the Planet. In the days before electric refrigerators, ice was cut from Green Lake, near Tully, New York, to use in ice boxes. Blocks of ice were stored in icehouses, where they'd stay frozen for many months, packed in sawdust, and then in the spring and summer, shipped as far away as New York City. Every year about this time, folks in Tully gather to celebrate their region's history by harvesting ice the old-fashioned way, with horsepower and antique tools."

Tully Ice Harvest: Cutting, February 6, 2009. "While some people continue sawing through the lake's frozen surface, others float blocks of ice through the channel to the shore. Here, volunteers are using huge tongs to move the blocks of ice into a chute that leads into a horse-drawn sleigh. Dairy farmer Delbert Haynes is in charge of today's ice harvest."

Tully Ice Harvest: History - March 4, 2005.

Uncovering the Freedom Trail: The Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African American Life Syracuse and Onondaga County, 1820-70 - Preservation Association of Central New York. With bibliography prepared by Judith Wellman.

United States Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive - With 2 interviews from the Endicott Johnson Corporation Oral History Project, presently stored by the Oral History Program, Department of History, University at Albany. Sam Salvatore, an Endicott-Johnson Corp. worker, is interviewed by Gerald Zahavi, July 7, 1981 (audio file) and Prof. Gerald Zahavi comments on corporate loyalty at Endicott-Johnson (video and audio file). Interviewed by Brian Mauriello, March 1, 1996.

Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement - 1995 exhibition at the University of Rochester Library.

Vintage Views - Postcard views of Central New York.

Women's Rights National Historical Park - National Park Service site provides historical background on the first Women's Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 & 20, 1848.

Hospitals, Healthcare, Human Services

AMA Physician Select

American Board of Medical Specialties

Arnot Health - Elmira

Bassett Healthcare - Cooperstown

Binghamton General Hospital

Caring Community Hospice of Cortland

Cayuga Medical Center - Ithaca

Community General Hospital - Syracuse

Cortland Regional Medical Center - Formerly known as Cortland Memorial Hospital

Crouse Hospital - Syracuse

Faxton St. Lukes - Utica & New Hartford. Part of the Mohawk Valley Network.(315-624-6000)

Greater Binghamton Health Center - "Comprehensive outpatient and inpatient services for individuals who are seriously mentally ill." Formerly known as the Binghamton Psychiatric Center.

Guthrie Clinic

Healthcare Association of New York State

Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County

Lourdes Hospital - Binghamton

New York State Department of Health - New York State Hospital Profiles

New York State Education Department Office of the Professions - Has Online License Verification and Professional Discipline Actions

New York State Department of Health Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline Search

St. Elizabeth Medical Center - Utica. (2209 Genesee Street Utica, NY 13501 Phone: 315-798-8100)

St. Joseph's Healthcare - Syracuse

Strong Memorial - Rochester

SUNY Upstate Medical University - Syracuse

Syracuse VA Medical Center

United Health Services: Wilson Medical Center - Binghamton

Upstate New York Hospice Alliance
(Links in this section verified 3 January 2005)

Law and Criminal Justice

Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY)

Cortland County Bar Association

Cortland County Courtss

Digital Librarian: New York State Law Resources

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties - "Historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S.treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins." A project of the Oklahoma State University Library.

Lawyers Fund for Client Protection - Has a New York State Attorney Search

LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - Provides links to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of New York rules and forms.

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator

Municipal Codes Online - Jeannette Voiland, Seattle Public Library. See also the Municipal Code Corporation List of Codes, "a collection consisting mostly of local government Codes of Ordinances from around the United States" and General Code Publishers.

NativeWeb Resources: Law and Legal Issues

New York Northern Attorney Lookup - Northern District of New York's Attorney Database

New York State Bar Association - Has Legal Links by County

New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA)

New York State Department of Correctional Services - Their Inmate Lookup provides "information on the status and location of inmates incarcerated in a New York State Department of Correctional Services prison. Information is also provided on former inmates; primarily so an inquiry regarding a released inmate results in a positive result telling when and why the inmate was released." A list of Correctional Facilities with Map is also provided. The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services offers a New York State Sex Offender Registry.

New York State Education Department: Office of Counsel - WithDecisions of the Commissioner which has searchable decisions from July 1996.

New York State Law Reporting Bureau - Their Slip Opinion Service provides access to recently released State court decisions that have not yet been edited for publication in the Official Reports, together with an electronic citation for each decision. (A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves 15 opinions, among which is 716 N.Y.S.2d 786 In the Matter of YELLOW LANTERN KAMPGROUND et al., Appellants, v. TOWN OF CORTLANDVILLE et al., Respondents. 87147, decided and entered November 28, 2000, 2000 NYSlipOp 10377. (A search for Cortland, for example, retrieves 15 opinions, among which is 716 N.Y.S.2d 786 In the Matter of YELLOW LANTERN KAMPGROUND et al., Appellants, v. TOWN OF CORTLANDVILLE et al., Respondents. 87147, decided and entered: November 28, 2000, Calendar Date: September 11, 2000. (At issue was whether the town of Cortlandville had used spot zoning in granting a variance to the Suit-Kote Corporation. The court found that the zoning change constituted impermissible spot zoning. "in this case, the Town Board engaged in no reasoned consideration of any of the foregoing factors but instead grounded its determination solely on the economic benefit the community would derive from respondent's continued, and possibly expanded, operation and its conclusion that the rezoning would not adversely affect surrounding uses because, even absent the requested rezoning, respondent would still be operating its business as nonconforming use. As properly recognized by petitioners, that kind of reasoning would justify the transformation of substantially any nonconforming use into a conforming one by the facile device of rezoning the affected parcels. Rezoning on that basis impermissibly "rewards the nonconforming user, contravenes the strong policy intended to achieve the ultimate elimination of nonconforming uses * * * and ddiminishes the effectiveness of the comprehensive zoning plan" (Matter of Augenblick v Town of Cortlandt, 104 AD2d 806, 815). "The court found that "although rezoning can be motivated by a desire to promote economic development, "spot zoning" is impermissible." John Caher comments on this decision in Local Zoning Board Overturned by Panel in the December 5, 2000 NY Law Journal. Caher calls the decision, "an unusual invalidation of a local zoning decision" and goes on to say that the "Town of Cortlandville had sought to accommodate a major local employer, Suit-Kote Corporation, which for the past 30 years has had to get a variance every time it wanted to modify or expand its asphalt production facility.." )

New York State Unified Court System - Highlights include a Table of Contents, a New York State Attorney Directory, an Uncontested Divorce Packet, Legal Forms, Press Releases and links to New York State Courts, Unified Court System Law Libraries, Town and Village Courts, Bar Associations and Legal Research.

Onondaga County Bar Association

Sixth Judicial District - With links to Court Web Pages.

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York - With offices in Albany & Utica and six official places of holding court: Albany, Binghamton, Plattsburgh, Syracuse, Utica, and Watertown.

United States District Court for the Northern District of New York - Offices located in Albany, Auburn, Binghamton, Syracuse, Utica and Watertown.

Women's Bar Association of the State of New York - With a Central New York section.

Libraries

Broome Community College Library - Binghamton.

Broome County Public Library - Binghamton

Cayuga-Onondaga School Library System - BOCES - Auburn

Cazenovia Public Library

Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC)

Colgate University Libraries

Cornell University Library - With access to Library Catalog.

Cortland Free Library

Directory of New York State Library Systems and Members - Includes more than 6300 libraries in New York State and is organized alphabetically by the names of nine geographic regions.

Directory of SUNY Libraries - State University of New York Librarians Association.

Durland Alternatives Library - Ithaca

Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Inc. (ENY/ACRL) - With links to Member Library Websites

Fayetteville Free Library - Their Motto Sheet Music Collection is a "remarkably diverse compilation of 35,000 sheets of popular American tunes from the last 150 years. It also includes 500 reference books and assorted materials in different formats."

Finger Lakes Library System - Ithaca. With links to Member Libraries in Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca Tioga and Tompkins counties.

Four County Library System - Serving Broome, Chenango, Delaware and Otsego counties.

Gifford Lecture Series - Syracuse. Sponsored by the Friends of Central Library, the lectures are held at the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.

Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR) - The HAPLR 100 lists the top ten libraries in each population category, among which are Fayetteville Free Library, Manlius Library, East Syracuse Free Library, Hamilton Public Library, and Poland Public Library.

Ithaca College Library

Le Moyne College Library

LibDex: the Library Index - Peter Scott's index to over 18,000 libraries.

Liverpool Public Library

Manlius Library

Mid-York Library System

Monroe Country Library System - Rochester

New York State Association of Library Boards - Offers a Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State,

New York State Electronic Doorway Library Network - "Virtual network of all online resources of public, school, hospital, academic and special libraries statewide"; cooperative effort among New York's Reference and Research Resource Councils (3R's)

New York Public Libraries

New York State Library

Excelsior online catalog - You can search the New York State Library/Archives/Museum Catalog for digital documents by clicking on the blue bar on the top of the page that says "digital collections". A search for Cortland, for example, located the entire text of Pioneer History; or Cortland County and the Border Wars of New York from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, by H. C. Goodwin, New York, A. B. Burdick, Publisher, 1859. (463 pages in pdf format).You can also browse the digital collections which are divided up into four categories: the Native American Collection, New York State Government Publications,New York State Library Scanned Documents Collection and Environmental History Collection. Among the New York State Government Publications, Judicial Branch, is the Lawyer's Manual on Domestic Violence : Representing the Victim, Supreme Court Appellate Division First Dept., 2005, a 344 page pdf document.

New York State Electronic Documents - Consists of scanned New York State Agency Documents.

Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York

Finding Aids to Manuscripts Collections - Collections relating to Central New York include the papers of William M. Beauchamp, Episcopalian minister who was the "greatest authority on the history and institutions of the Iroquois", Arthur C. Parker, archaeologist, writer and descendant of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, and Lulu Stillman who served as stenographer for Assemblyman Edward Everett, chairman of the New York State Indian Commission from 1919 to 1922.

Find Your Public Library by Community Name.

NOVEL: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library - Provides access to the Steering Committee Minutes.

New York State Archives - Resources include

Research Room - Provides access to a Historic Documents Inventory (HDI), in which you can "search catalog records for more than 25,000 archives and manuscripts collections housed locally at repositories throughout New York State (libraries, historical societies, and other organizations with established archives," the RLG Union Catalog with "close to 700,000 catalog records", the OCLC MSS Records with "Close to 300,000 catalog records",

Photo Gallery

Guide to Records Relating to Native Americans.

Motion Picture Scripts Collection - The largest collection of film scripts in the world. See Behind the Screens - State Archives has biggest collection of film scripts, by Patrick Kurp, Schenectady Gazette. You can search the Motion Picture Division Film Script Index in any of the following categories: film title, film title in English, , alternate film title, country, writer's last name, director's last name, year, manufacturer, and exchange (company applying for the license).

Nylink - Not-for-profit membership organization for approximately 350 institutions, representing more than 700 academic, special, government, law, medical, public, school and non-profit libraries, and library systems.

Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES School Library System

Onondaga Community College Coulter Library

Onondaga County Public Library - Provides access to the online catalog and links to member libraries.

Rochester Regional Library Council

School Libraries: New York - Peter Milbury's network of school librarian web pages in New York.

School Library Systems Association of New York State - Has a Directory by Region.

Skaneateles Library Association

South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) - Provides access to databases and catalogs, a Member Directory, and a Calendar.

Southern Tier Library System - Serving Allegany, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Yates Counties.

Special Libraries Association - Upstate New York Chapter

SUNY Connect

SUNY Cortland Memorial Library

SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) - Resources include Directory of SUNYLA and SUNY Libraries with an alphabetical list of SUNY Library Web Sites and information on the annualSpring Conference.

SUNY Library Catalogs - Links compiled by the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

SUNY Upstate Medical University Health Sciences Library

Syracuse University Library

Tompkins Cortland Community College Library

Tompkins County Public Library - Ithaca

Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES School Library System

Utica College Library

Wells College Library
(Links in this section verified 3 January 2005)

Literature

cnybooks.com: Books with a Central New York Connection

Central New York Writers: J. Robert Lennon - Ithaca Alison Lurie - Ithaca

Cornell English Department Readings and Lectures

Cortland Review

Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

From Quill to Keyboard: A Bibliography of Oneida County Authors, 1798-2004 - Mid-York Library System, Utica.

Gifford Lecture Series - Syracuse. Sponsored by the Friends of Central Library, the lectures are held at the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.

James Fenimore Cooper Society - Hosted by the State University of New York College at Oneonta, the site offers texts of hard-to-find works by Cooper, transcribed and annotated by Hugh C. MacDougall, articles and papers about Cooper, a special section devoted to Cooper's eldest daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894 and links to other resources.

Zembla - Site devoted to the life and works of author, translator and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. Many of Nabokov's Homes & Haunts after 1948 were in Ithaca and Cayuga Heights.

Writers and Books - Rochester

Lodging

Finger Lakes Bed and Breakfast Association (FLBBA)

Alice's Dowry Bed & Breakfast - Cincinnatus (Cortland County)

American Hotel - Sharon Springs (518 284 2105)

Arad Evans Inn - Fayetteville

Aurora Inn - Aurora

Belhurst - Geneva. There are lodgings in Belhurst Castle, White Springs Manor (2 miles west of Belhurst) and the Vinifera Inn. (315-781-0201).

Benn Conger Inn - Groton

Blakeslee House Bed and Breakfast - Marcellus

Brewster Inn - Cazenovia

Casowasco - Camp conference and retreat center owned and operated by the North Central New York Conference of the United Methodist Church located on Owasco Lake.

Cedar Cove - Cazenovia Lake cottage

Colgate University: Lodging in the Hamilton Area

Cooper Inn - Cooperstown. (800-348-6222 and 607-547-2567)

Cortland County

Alexander House Bed and Breakfast - Cortland

Cortland Area Innkeepers Association

Cortland Dining & Lodging

Cottage at Glen Haven - 8 West Lake Road. Located at the southwestern end of Skaneateles Lake, not quite within sight of the lake, but certainly within walking distance. 20 minutes from Cortland (607-749-4761 and 607-749-5032)

Country Inn and Suites

Hampton Inn

Holiday Inn Conference Center

Quagmire Manor - Homer

Virgil Resorts

Driftwood Inn Bed and Breakfast - Ovid (888-532-4324)

1880 House - Pulaski Bed & Breakfast looks out on the Salmon River. See Salmon's Plenitude Tempts -- So Does a Comfortable Bed by Angus Phillips, Washington Post, October 8, 2006. "The 1880 House was a find. Owner Linda Tarbox is a keen angler, well connected to the local guides, and she and her two daughters make it easy on guests, with breakfast ready no matter how ridiculously early you get up, and hot, homemade soups and bread awaiting when you get back."

Esperanza Mansion - Bluff Point (Keuka Lake)

Finger Lakes Cottages

Fontainebleau Inn - Alpine, on Cayuta Lake (607-594-2008)

Geneva on the Lake

Genesee Grande Hotel - Syracuse

Green Apple Inn - Cooperstown (607-547-1080)

Hart's Hill Inn - Whitesboro (315-736-3011)

Hilton Garden Inn - Ithaca

Hobbit Hollow Farm - Skaneateles

Horned Dorset - Leonardsville

Hotel Utica - A Historic Hotel of America, recently restored (1-800-906-1912). Not too far from Turning Stone

Inn at Cooperstown - (607-547-5756)

Inn at Glenn Sanders Mansion - Scotia (near Schenectady)

Inn at the Finger Lakes - 12 Seminary Ave., Auburn (315-253-5000)

Inn at Glenora Wine Cellars - Dundee (607.243.9500)

La Tourelle Resort & Spa - Ithaca

Lincklaen House - Cazenovia

McLallen House - Trumansburg

Mirbeau Inn & Spa - Skaneateles. See D'vine products by Linda Ober, Auburn Citizen, December 18, 2007. "...Pinot noir body cream, merlot exfoliating puree, petite sirah cleanser, Shiraz firming body lotion, and zinfandel and Bordeaux masks."

Morgan Samuels Inn - Canandaigua

New York Campgrounds - Directory of members of the Campground Owners of New York (CONY).

Notleymere Cottage - Cazenovia

New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association - You can search for lodgings in a specific city.

Otesaga Resort Hotel - Cooperstown

Packwood House - Skaneateles

Parkview Hotel - Syracuse

Pleasant Valley Inn - Hammondsport

Rental Plus: Finger Lakes Vacation Rentals - Canandaigua, Keuka and Seneca Lakes

Rosemont Inn Bed and Breakfast - Utica (866-353-4907)

Savannah Dhu - Robert Congel's luxurious, 5,000 acre Adirondack-style resort and conference center located in Wayne County, near Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, about an hour west of Syracuse. Congel is the developer of Carousel Center and the proposed Destiny USA.

Select Registry: Distinguished Inns of North America

Sherwood Inn - Skaneateles

Statler Hotel - Ithaca

Taughannock Farms Inn - Trumansburg

10 Fitch - Auburn B & B (314-255-0934)

Visit Ithaca: Lodging

William Henry Miller Inn - Ithaca

Maps

Cayuga County, Springport, Ledyard, Aurelius, Union Springs, Finger Lakes... - Bill Hecht's site includes numerous maps and air photos.

Historic Marker Search - New York State Museum

Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY

EPA Enviromapper - Maps several types of environmental information, including drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste, water discharge permits, and Superfund sites. EnviroMapper also links to text reports.

Map Collections: 1544-1996 - Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. Most were published in the 1880s by Lucien R. Burleigh of Troy. There is a Geographic Index. Central New York towns & cities include: Binghamton, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cooperstown, DeRuyter, East Syracuse, Greene, Hamilton, Ithaca, Oxford, Richford Springs, Rome, Sherburne, Skaneateles, Utica, Waterville, Waverly and Weedsport.

Maps - The following sites provide maps and driving directions: MapBlast!, Maps On Us, MapQuest, AOL Travel, miDirections, Yahoo! Maps & Driving Directions, DeLorme's Earthamaps, Expedia Maps, Rand McNally Maps and Lycos Roadmaps.

New York State Historical Maps - State University of New York at Stony Brook. Has a A Mappe of Colonel Romers Voyage to ye 5 Indian Nations, 1700. Also provided is the New York State Map Pathfinder.

New York State Museum Bulletins Project - Digitized maps, including a Preliminary Geological Map of Portions of Herkimer... and Adjacent Counties

New York State Museum Datasets: Interactive Finger Lakes

Resort Maps - Tourist maps of resort towns and cities has several New York maps including Ithaca, the Eastern Finger Lakes and the Western Finger Lakes.

Topowest: New York Quads by Name

Movies

Cinemapolis - Ithaca

Fall Creek Pictures - Ithaca

Regal Cinemas 17 - Carousel Mall, Syracuse (315-466-5678)

IMAX - Bristol Omnitheater, Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST), Syracuse

Ithaca Journal: Movies

Manlius Art Cinema - 315-682-9817.

Onondaga County Library Catalog - Has a fine collection of videos and dvds. There are a number of ways to search for movies. The easiest is to search by movie title but this sometimes retrieves too many results. You can do an author search for actor, director or studio (Miramax Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Buena Vista Home Video, Orion Home Video, United Artist Corporation etc.) or do a series search (World Class Cinema Collection, world films, widescreen dvd collection, DVS Home Video, Audrey Hepburn Collection, Marilyn Collection, MGM Musicals etc.) Subject searches are also effective: try feature films, dvd videodiscs, film adaptations, animated films, children's films, musicals, musical films, horror films, science fiction films, fairy tales film and video adaptations, comedy films, adventure films, historical films, western films, french language video recordings, foreign films, film noir, Video Recordings for the Visually Impaired, Video Recordings for the Hearing Impaired etc. Try also the Finger Lakes Library System's Online Catalog.

SUNY Cortland Video Holdings

Syracuse.com: Movies

Yahoo! Movies

Museums and Historic Sites

Bement-Billings Farmstead - Newark Valley

Cayuga Museum of History and Art - Auburn

Constable Hall - Constableville, Lewis County. For more information on historic sites see the National Register of Historic Places listing for Lewis County. William Constable Papers, 1790-1805 are owned by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library.

Corning Museum of Glass

Erie Canal Village - Rome

Everson Museum - Syracuse. With Programs & Events

Farmers' Museum - Cooperstown

Fenimore Art Museum - Cooperstown. The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art is described by Steven M. L. Aronson: "...The 800 arrestingly beautiful objects...are incontestably the best of their kind - milestones of American Indian inventiveness." (Native Beauties: Eugene V. Thaw on His Extraordinary Compilation of North American Indian Works, Architectural Digest, June, 2008.) In the Virtual Museum you can view catalog records and images of the 825 items in the collection including:

Seneca Bag - Circa 1830-1860

Eastern Ojibwa Birch Bark Domed Box - Circa 1847-1853

Teton Sioux (Lakota) Painted Hide War Record - Circa 1880

Teton Sioux (Lakota) Storage Bags - Circa 1880-1889

Finger Lakes Boating Museum - Penn Yan

Fort Stanwix National Monument - Rome

Ganondagan State Historic Site - Major seventeenth-century Seneca town and its palisaded granary, located in Victor. Provides links to Haudenosaunee and Other Native American Sites.

Genesee Country Village and Museum - Mumford

George Eastman House - Rochester

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell

Hill Cumorah & Historic Sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Palmyra

Homeville Antique Fire Department - Homer

Hyde Hall - National Historic Landmark in Cooperstown, considered by Brendan to be one of the "three or four great buildings in America of its time." See profile on Hyde Hall in the New York State Preservationist, Fall/Winter 2000, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 4-5. The George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937 are owned by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library. See also Farming on Shares: Landlords, Tenants, and the Rise of the Hop and Dairy Economics in Central New York by Thomas Summerhill, New York History, April 1995, pp. 125-152.

Light Work - Non-profit, artist-run, photography and imaging center in Syracuse.

Lorenzo State Historic Site - Cazenovia. Web site of the Friends of Lorenzo. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation also maintains information about Lorenzo. See also Holland Land Company Manuscript Preservation Project: Assessment List of the Holland Land Company Records and Related Documents at the Lorenzo Historic Site. This document, with accompanying explanatory text and bibliography, was prepared by staff at the Reed Library, SUNY, College at Fredonia, and has the following note: "In 1995 we received 11,000 documents and photos from "The Meadows" Jonathan Ledyard's home across Ripple Road from Lorenzo. Largely related to the local dealings of the Ledyard, Hubbard, and Burr related familes. We have not yet begun to sort and compile a calendar." Cornell has created a Guide to the Ledyard Family Papers. Ulysses G. Dietz, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, wrote about the Ledyard house in "A Garden Heritage: a family domain virtually unchanged since 1830", House & Garden, September, 1987.

Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) - Syracuse

Munson Williams Proctor Institute - Utica

Museum of Automobile History - Syracuse

National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown

National Register of Historic Places - Lists sites by county in Cortland, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tioga, Tompkins,

National Soaring Museum - Elmira

National Soccer Hall of Fame - Oneonta

National Warplane Museum - Elmira-Corning Regional Airport

National Women's Hall of Fame - Seneca Falls

New York State Covered Bridges - With Thumbnails

New York State Historical Association - Cooperstown

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - With information on Historic Sites.

Oneida Community Mansion House

Roberson Museum and Science Center - Binghamton

Rockwell Museum - Corning

Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center - Auburn

Sciencenter - Ithaca

Strong Museum - Rochester

William H. Seward House - Auburn. See also:

Papers of William H. Seward: Combined Index to General Correspondence - Author Index

Life of William H. Seward with Selections from his Works (1855)

Growing Up With Books: Fanny Seward's Book Collecting, Reading,and Writing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York State - "Surviving today at Seward House in Auburn, New York, are Fanny's book collection of 348 volumes and at the University of Rochester her conscientiously maintained journal, with many descriptions of what and how she read." (Deirdre C. Stam, Libraries & Culture, Vol. 41, No. 2, Spring, 2006, pp. 191-218. Deidre Stam is an Associate Professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University.) Frances Adeline Seward (1844-66) was William Seward's daughter. She died of typhoid fever at the age of twenty-one. See Sensitivity and Civil War: the selected diaries and papers, 1858-1866, of Frances Adeline (Fanny) Seward. Edited by Patricia Carley Johnson.

William Henry Seward Papers - Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, University of Rochester.

Music

Adams Foundation Piano Series - Auburn. Sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church and the Cayuga County Arts Council.

Binghamton Philharmonic

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra - Ithaca

Cayuga Vocal Ensemble - Ithaca

Central New York Bluegrass Association - With information on the Festival at the Apple Festival Grounds in Lafayette.

Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation - Syracuse

Central New York Music

Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival

Cornell University Department of Music

Music Concert Schedule

Cornell Concert Series

Summer Events.

Community School of Music & Arts - Ithaca

Farmers' Museum Music Events - Cooperstown

Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown

Grass Roots Festival - Trumansburg Fairgrounds

Hamilton College Classical Connections - Clinton. Series

The Haunt - Ithaca

Ithaca College School of Music Concert Calendar

IthacaEvents

Ithaca Festival

MasterWorks Chorale - Marcellus

Morgan Opera House - Aurora

Musi-Cal: Concert Schedules - Search for concert schedules by city, performer venue or event.

New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers' Association - Osceola

New York State School Music Association - With Zone and County Map

Rongovian Embassy - Trumansburg

Ronnie James Dio Pages - Unofficial site maintained by systems analyst Tapio Keihänen of Helsinki, Finland, the site provides extensive information on Cortland native Ronnie Dio of Black Sabbath (and his earlier Cortland-based band Elf). There's also an Official Ronne James Dio site.

Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Skaneateles Festival - Five weeks of chamber music, chamber orchestra and children's concerts.

Smith Opera House - Geneva

Sons of Pitches (SOP) - A cappella singing group based in Ithaca.

Stanley Theatre - Utica

Summer Savoyards - Binghamton

Syracuse Jazz Fest

Syracuse Opera

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra - Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter (315-424-8222)

Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

Tompkins County Country Dances: The Ithaca Dance

Tri-Cities Opera - Binghamton

West Kortright Centre - East Meredith

Westminster Presbyterian Church - Auburn. Hosts the Adams Foundation Piano Series

Native Americans

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement - This is a valuable resource for students and researchers. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private donors, American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. Texts related to Central New York include Wabanip's Speech to Assembled Iroquois Chiefs, April 30, 1798, Joseph Brant's Speech to British Government Concerning Indian Land Claims, Niagara, October 22, 1796 and Moravian Journals Relating to Central New York, 1745-66.

American Philosophical Society - Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. The Library (which does not have an online catalog) houses over 180,000 volumes and bound periodicals, six million manuscripts, and thousands of maps and prints. In American Indian Manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society (c1999) there are a number of entries for Onondaga. Among the Society's Publications is The Journals of Christian Daniel Claus and Conrad Weiser: A Journey to Onondaga, 1750, available at Amazon.com.

Ancestral Grounds: the Battle over Indian Land Claims - Three-part series on the Indian land claims in central New York published by the Albany Times Union, October 24-26, 1999.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." (Data Page 2].

Catholic Encyclopedia - With over 11,602 articles, this encyclopedia is a good resource for researching the Jesuit presence in North America. For example there are articles on Iroquois, Seneca, Buffalo, St. Isaac Jogues, Algonquins, Syracuse and Simon Le Moyne.

Calendar of the Sir William Johnson Manuscripts in the New York State Library - 683 pages. See also The papers of Sir William Johnson / Prepared for publication by the Division of Archives and History

Census of the First Christian and Orchard Parties of Oneida Indians - National Archives. The balance of the title reads "residing at Green Bay, Wisconsin Territory, taken by Henry S. Baird, U.S. Commissioner, on November 15, 1838, under provisions of the Treaty of February 3, 1838." Control No.: NWCTB-75-PI163E79-W771(1839). The NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) has a Digital Copies Search option.

Chief Irving Powless Jr. Onondaga Nation - Chief Irving Powless Jr. Describes meeting at Ondonaga with Tetsuo Okada, of Okinawa, Japan, and other delegates of the White Ship of Peace, a project chaired by Shoukicki Kina, a famous singer in Japan.

Early Canadiana Online - "Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada." A search for Iroquoian Indians, for example, retrieves 12 documents including William M. Beauchamp's The Iroquois Trail, or, Footprints of the Six Nations: in Customs, Traditions and History (1892) and James Constantine Pilling's Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages (1888). Other texts include Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs appointed by law for the extinguishment of Indian titles in the state of New York: published from the original manuscript in the library of the Albany Institute, The Iroquois book of rites (1883), League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or, Iroquois (1851) by Lewis H. Morgan, The journal of Major John Norton, 1816, The life and times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks, 1656-1680 (1891), Jesuit missions among the Cayugas, from 1656 to 1684 (1876), Sir William Johnson and the six nations (1891), An Iroquois condoling council: a study of aboriginal American society and government (1895), Early chapters of Seneca history: Jesuit missions in Sonnontouan, 1656-1684 (1884) and A French-Onondaga dictionary: from a manuscript of the seventeenth century (1860).

Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Siècle Francophone - 19th century full texts from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A search for Saint John de Crèvecoeur locates the text and illustrations for Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New-York depuisl'année 1785 jusqu'en 1798 (in French only). The search results also include illustrations (Mosaique) from the work: there are images of Késkétomah, ancien Sachem de la Nation Onondaga and Koohassen, guerrier de la Nation Onéida.

Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church - Provides full-texts of many books including as well as maps, photographs and articles on the Mohawk Valley region.

Ganondagan State Historic Site - Victor

Gathering of the Tribes: Preppies vs. Indians on an old American playing field - John Seabrook's article on the Onondaga Athletic Club lacrosse team, originally published in the New Yorker, September 7, 1998. (Players Rex and Kent Lyons also play in a band called White Boy and the Wagon Burners.)

George Washington Papers - Library of Congress. A search for Onondaga retrieves 14 results, stanwix 110, including George Washington to Seneca Indians, January 19, 1791 ("To the Cornplanter, Half-Town and the Great Tree Chiefs of the Seneka Nation of Indians")

Haudenosaunee: People Building a Long House - Official source of news and information from the Haudenosaunee, comprised of the traditional leadership of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora Nations.

An Indian Boy's Story - By Ah-nen-la-de-ni (his American name was Daniel La France). "My father was a pure-blooded Indian of the Mohawk tribe of the Six Nations, and our home was in the St. Regis reservation in Franklin County, N. Y." From Texts by and about Native Americans from the Modern English Collection part of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Some items available to UVa users only.

Indian Land Claims - Special section in the Syracuse Post Standard. See also the regional news sections for Cayuga and Madison counties.

Indian Law Resource Center - "Legal advocacy for the protection of indigenous peoples’ human rights, cultures, and traditional lands so that Indian tribes and nations may flourish for generations to come." Has information on Land Rights and Sovereignty and Self-governance. They provide background information on the Onondaga Nation Land Claim.

Iroquois Bibliography - Part of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents by Hugh R. Fox.

Iroquois Constitution - University of Oklahoma Law Center

Iroquois Indian Museum - Howes Cave

Iroquois Studies Association - Sponsors of the Otsiningo Pow Wow. They have a good collection of Links of Interest.

Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties - "Historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S.treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins." A project of the Oklahoma State University Library. Of local interest: Treaty with the Six Nations, Oct. 22, 1784, 7 Stat., 15, Treaty with the Six Nations, Jan. 9, 1789, 7 Stat., 33, Treaty with the Six Nations, Nov. 11, 1794, 7 Stat., 44, Proclamation, Jan. 21, 1795, Agreement with the Five Nations of Indians, April 23, 1792, American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. 1, p. 232..

List of Treaties and Other Documents in the Whipple Report - Charles B. Sears Law Library, University at Buffalo.

Missions to the Oneidas - By Susan Fenimore Cooper, The Living Church, Number III. April 25, 1885, pages 38-39. Quotes Skenandoah who died in 1816: "I am an aged hemlock," he said: "the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. My own generation have left me. Why I live the Great Good Spirit only knows. Pray to the Lord that I may have patience to await my appointed time." In 1793 Samuel Kirkland published "A plan of Education for the Indians, particularly of the Five Nations," describing his plan for the Hamilton Oneida Academy (later Hamilton College). See also Missions to the Oneidas provided by the James Fenimore Cooper Society

Native American Authors - Internet Public Library Project includes links to articles by Douglas M. George-Kanentiio (Kanentiio)M, writer, lecturer and chairman of Round Dance Productions, a non-profit cultural foundation on Oneida Territory.

Native American Home Pages - With links to Individual Native Nations (alphabetical by tribal name).

NativeLaw News Digest - Updated daily, the digest often includes articles on issues of Indian land claims and Sovereignty in New York State.

NativeWeb Resources: Law and Legal Issues

New York State Historical Literature - Digital collection created by Cornell University Library. Indian names in New-York, with a selection from other states, and some Onondaga names of plants, etc...by William Martin Beauchamp; Cusick's History of the Six Nations;

New York State Historical Maps - State University of New York at Stony Brook. Has a A Mappe of Colonel Romers Voyage to ye 5 Indian Nations, 1700.

New York State Library

online catalog

Finding Aids to Manuscripts Collections. Collections relating to Native Americans include the papers of William M. Beauchamp, Episcopalian minister who was the "greatest authority on the history and institutions of the Iroquois", Arthur C. Parker, archaeologist, writer and descendant of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, and Lulu Stillman who served as stenographer for Assemblyman Edward Everett, chairman of the New York State Indian Commission from 1919 to 1922.

Ogden Family Papers - Contents description, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. "The Ogden Land Company, purchased huge tracts of land from Indians of the Six Nations and resold it to whites at an enormous profit."

Oneida Indian Nation

Oneida Indian Land Claim Information Site - Madison County Board of Supervisors Native American Affairs Committee. Provides List of Treaties.

Oneida Indian Nation Treaties Project

The Onondaga: People of the Hills

- Five-part video essay by Post-Standard photographer John Berry.

Onondaga Community College Library - Has a strong collection of Native American resources. With online access to the catalog.

Onondaga Nation

Otsiningo Pow Wow - June 1-3, 2001, Otsiningo Park, Binghamton

Return of the Natives: An eight-part series - Series on Northeast Indians by Daniel P. Jones, David Lightman, Hilary Waldman, Kenton Robinson, Edmund Mahony and Steve Grant that appeared in the Hartford Courant between May 22 and May 29, 1994. Unbroken treaties: How a new generation got the law on its side provides an account of how Syracuse attorney George C. Shattuck won a unanimous ruling in 1974 from the U.S. Supreme Court for the Oneidas (Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida, New York, 414 U.S. 661, argued Nov. 6 and 7, 1973, decided Jan. 21, 1974). Related decisions include County of Oneida, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State, 470 U.S. 226, decided March 4, 1985 and Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida, No. 70-CV-35, United States District Court, July 12, 1977. In Oneida & Madison Counties v. Oneida Indian Nation, 470 U.S. 226, argued Oct. 1, 1984 and decided March 4, 1985, the Oneidas sued two New York State counties seeking damages representing fair rental value of the land presently owned and occupied by the counties. Shattuck wrote a book on the issue The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History, Syracuse University Press, 1991. ($19.95). On March 29, 2005, in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., the Supreme Court decided that the Oneida Tribe cannot expand its tax-exempt holdings by buying up property that has been outside its reservation for generations.

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation - See Drug Traffickers Find Haven in Shadows of Indian Country by Sarah Kershaw, New York Times, February 19, 2006. "Here on Mohawk land, a reservation of roughly 6,000 people on the United States side, according to the tribe, investigators estimate that 10 to 15 major Indian criminal organizations, along with outside drug rings, move more than $1 billion annually in high-grade marijuana and Ecstasy across the Canadian border, through the reservation and into the Northeast. Prosecutors say they are catching only about 2 percent of that contraband."

Seneca-Iroquois National Museum - Salamanca, New York (716-945-1760)

1779 Sullivan Campaign: A Little-Known Offensive Strategic To The War Breaks The Indian Nations’ Power - By Stanley J. Adamiak. Correspondance between John Sullivan and George Washington about this campaign can be locatd at the George Washington Papers site, a Library of Congress American Memory Project to digitize approximately 65,000 documents. A keyword search for Sullivan locates 100 documents. Letters written between Sullivan and Washington in 1779, particularly from May to September, when the campaign occurred, provide valuable details. A search for James Clinton,and Tioga will also retrieve letters of interest. The New York State Historical Literature, a Cornell University Library digital collection, has the full-text of Sullivan's Campaign 1779. Journals, Notes and Biography. 1879, in Collections of Cayuga County Historical Society, Number One, 1879

Seneca Nation of Indians

The Six Nations of the Iroquois - Brief descriptions of the Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, Tuscarora, Mohawk and Cayugas. (Syracuse Online)

The Six Nations: Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth

Six Nations Women Singers - Short article by J. Poet in the Fall 1999 Native Artists Magazine about We Will All Sing by Six Nations Women Singers, a collection of traditional social songs from the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga Nations. (Amazon provides RealAudio sound clips from the cd.).

Syracuse University Press - Publishers of the The Iroquois and Their Neighbors series.

Treaty of Canadaigua 1794: 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States - First chapter from the book edited by G. Peter Jemison and Anna M. Schein. (New York Times, free registration). See also the January 7, 2001 book review Wampum Belt by Fred Anderson.

Tuscarora and Six Nations - "Not affiliated with or approved or endorsed by the Tuscarora Nation."

Utica Observer Dispatch: Land Claims

U.S. Census Bureau - Has links to the latest trend data for Minorities including American Indian and Alaska Native Populations. Historical data is available in the1890 Census of Population and Housing which has an Extra Census Bulletin for The Six Nations of New York. Cayugas, Mohawks (Saint Regis), Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, Tuscaroras by Thomas Donaldson (pdf document). General Henry B. Carrington "spent many months among the Indians of the Six Nations and made careful observations respecting their various political, religious, and social meetings, their homes, health and habits. It consists of the following sections:

Part I. Historical Outline by Henry B.Carrington
Part II. Reservations and Locations in New York: 1721, 1771 and 1890
Part III. Ancient and Modern Government, Provisions and Incidents, Including the Saint Regis Indians
Part IV. Religion Among the Six Nations, Including Saint Regis Indians
Part V. Industries of the Six Nations Indians
Part VI. Social Life, Games, and Amusements
Part VII. Marriage and the Indian Home
Part VIII. Temperance and Morals
Part IX. Educations, Schools and Language
Part X. Health and Vital Statistics
Part XI. Indian Names, Traditions and Reminiscences
Part XII. Annuities and Annuity Payments
Part XIII. The Six Nations Problem
Index - pp. 85-89

William N. Fenton Papers - American Philosophical Society. "A Yale-educated ethnographer, William [Nelson] Fenton [1908-2005] devoted most of his career to study of the Iroquois Indians of New York State and Canada. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany." Fenton's major works are the 786 page The Great Law and the Longhouse: a Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 and the 522 page The False Faces of the Iroquois, University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

yourDictionary.com - Provides links to Language Dictionaries for North American Languages which include Iroquoian.

Nature Preserves

Arnot Teaching and Research Forest

Buttermilk Falls - Ithaca. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns A Study of Trap Rock (Buttermilk Falls) by John Henry Hill, 1839-1922, painted in 1863. ,

Cayuga Nature Center - Ithaca

Cayuga Nature Photographers

Centers for Nature Education - Baltimore Woods

Cornell Biological Field Station - Shackelton Point, Oneida Lake, Bridgeport

Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca

Cortland Herpetology Connection - "Where high school students help with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Amphibian and Reptile Atlas."

Finger Lakes Land Trust - With information on events and FLLT Nature Preserves.

Finger Lakes National Forest - Administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Finger Lakes National Forest consists of "16,032 acres, nestled between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. The Forest has over 30 miles of interconnecting trails that traverse gorges, ravines, pastures, and woodlands."

Genesee Land Trust - With Archived Newsletters in pdf format

Genesee Valley Greenway

Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture - Cortland

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Montezuma Wetlands Complex

National Audubon Society - There is also an Audubon New York. Among the New York State Chapters is the Onondaga Audubon Society which has a newsletter Kestrel.

Nature Conservancy - Areas of interest in upstate New York includes the Albany Pine Bush. Other protected areas include 430-acre former Wild Rose Ranch, 430-acre former Wild Rose Ranch, 670-acre former Florence Muller property all in the Honeoye Lake area, Hoskins Woods (Rochester area), O.D. von Engeln Preserve at Malloryville, the Eagle Crest property in the Hemlock and Canadice Lakes watershed, El Dorado Beach Preserve, O.D. von Engeln Preserve at Malloryville, Chaumont Barrens, Rome Sand Plains and the Tug Hill Plateau. There is a clickable map for preserves protected by the Central and Western New York Chapter.

New York River Otter Project - Reintroduction of 270 otters in central and western New York."

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 7 - With information on Nature Centers and Wildlife Management Areas, also listed by County. Rome Sand Plains, Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area, Bear Swamp Nordic Ski Trail,

New York State Important Bird Areas - Aububon Society site allows you to locate important bird habitats by Region or from a Name.

OneidaBirds - LISTSERV created to help birders in Central New York share bird sightings and information about wild birds.

Onondaga Audubon Society - With information on Derby Hill and Noyes Sanctuary in Scriba

Organization of Biological Field Stations - with links to Field Stations in New York.

Rice Creek Field Station - Oswego

Rogers Environmental Education Center - Sherburne. See also Rogers Environmental Education Center

Save The County Land Trust - Onondaga and Oswego Counties. Properties include Old Fly Marsh in Pompey, Camillus Valley Natural Area which includes Nine Mile Creek, Lake Forest Preserve in Cicero, Bigsby Drumlin in Onondaga, Austin Wildlife Refuge in Manlius and Pompey, Case's Landing in Manlius, High Hickory Wildlife Sanctuary in Spafford, Tracy Lake in Tully and Whiskey Hollow in VanBuren.

Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter

Watkins Glen -

Western New York Land Conservancy

Newspapers, Radio, TV

Newspapers

American City Business Journals - Includes Capital District Business Review and Buffalo First. Site is searchable and has an archives of back issues.
Amsterdam Recorder
Auburn Citizen - Daily
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Cazenovia Pilot - "Independent, alternative source for news about greater Cazenovia."
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program.
Columbia Journalism Review Newspaper Finder
CoopersTown Crier
Corning Leader - Daily
Cortland Standard - The only daily newspaper in Cortland County, New York, officially launched June 12, 2006. Selected stories are archived back to May 9th, 2006.
Crains New York Business
Eagle Newspapers - Publisher of 14 community weekly newspapers located in Onondaga and Madison counties
Elmira Star-Gazette - Daily
Gebbie Press: New York Daily Newspapers
Gebbie Press: New York Weekly Newspapers
Finger Lakes Times - Geneva daily
Fulton Daily News
Glens Falls Post Star
Gloversville Leader-Herald
Herkimer Evening Telegram
Hornell Evening Tribune
Internet Public Library New York Newspapers
Ithaca Journal
Ithaca Times - Weekly
Little Falls Evening Times
Mid-York Weekly - Madison County
New York Newspaper Publishers Association (NYNPA) - Has links to Member Newspapers.
New York New Media Association - With member newspaper directory, indexed by region or alphabetically.
New York Newspapers Advertising and Marketing Executives - Has links to member newspapers.
Newark Courier Gazette
NewsDirectory: Newspapers: New York
Newslinks: New York Newspapers
Norwich Evening Sun - Daily
Oneida Daily Dispatch
Oneida Madison Pennysaver
Oneonta Daily Star - With browsable and searchable Archives for News, obituaries and other sections going back to March, 1998.
OnlineNewspapers.com
OswegoDailyNews.com - Daily web-only newspaper
Oswego Palladium-Times - Daily
Radio Free Hamilton
Rochester Business Journal
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Daily
Rome Observer - Weekly
Rome Sentinel - Daily. Points of Pride lists hundreds of events and sights in Rome including Wood Creek Trail part of the Rome Sand Plains
Syracuse New Times
Syracuse Post Standard
Today's Headlines
Sports
Jobs
Live Cam at Clinton Square
Marshall Street Cam
Police and Fire Scanner
Autos
Movies
Obituaries
Cortland Forum
Sean Kirst
Frank Cammuso
Bud Poliquin
Dick Case
Jeff Kramer
Joan Vadeboncoeur
Utica Observer Dispatch - Daily
Watertown Daily Times
College and University Publications

Campus Times - University of Rochester
Colgate Maroon-News
Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell Magazine
Cornell University News Service
Daily Orange - Syracuse University
Ithaca College Quarterly
Ithacan Online
Oswegonian Online
Spectator - Hamilton College
Syracuse Daily Orange
Syracuse University Magazine
Magazines

Life in the Finger Lakes
New Urban News - Published in Ithaca
Radio

Find a NPR Station - National Public Radio. You can also use Speechbot search engine developed by Hewlett-Packard for audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites. A search for Cortland for example, retrieves a segment on The Connection radio show in which Catherine Bertini of Cortland, the former United Nations World Food Programme executive director, affirms her support for John Bolton, Bush's pick for U.N. Ambassador ( in The Bolton Vote, May 13, 2005, WBUR, Boston). Also retrieved is a piece on the electoral college in November 2, 2004 show The Connection features Judith Best, a political science professor at the State University of New York at Cortland and who also is interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show on Nov 10, 2000.
Gebbie Press: New York Radio Stations
North Country Public Radio - St. Lawrence University, Canton.
WICB - 105.9 FM - Ithaca College
Radio-Locator - Locate radio stations by state. Provides link to station's web site and indicates if it broadcasts its audio on the Internet. There's a page for New York.
Savor Life - Michael Warren Thomas's radio show on WYSL 1040AM. Wine, food, gardening, Finger Lakes tourism, and Toronto
WAER Jazz: 88 FM - Syracuse University
WAQX - 95.7 - Syracuse (aka 95X)
WBFO 88.7 - University of Buffalo. Listen Live.
WEOS 89.7/ 90.3 FM - Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva
WHCU 870 Ithaca
WHEN 620 AM SportsRadio - Syracuse. Listen Live
WHRW-FM 90.5 Binghamton - Radio Free Binghamton
WICB - 92 - Ithaca College. Listen Live.
WICZ TV FOX 40 - "Binghamton's Only Primetime Newscast." With Local News Archives
WJPZ - Z89 - Syracuse.
WKRL -1 00.9 FM K-Rock - Syracuse
WNTQ 93.1 FM 93Q - Syracuse
WNYY 1470 AM - Ithaca. Progressive talk radio
WOUR 96.9 FM Classic Rock - Utica
WQNY-103.7 FM - QCountry. Ithaca
WRVO 89.9 FM - Oswego (NPR). Listen Live
WSEN 92.1 FM Oldies 92 - Syracuse. Listen Live
WSKG 91.5 FM - Binghamton
WSUC 90.5-FM - "The Dragon" (SUNY Cortland)
WSYR 570 AM Newsradio 570 - Syracuse. Listen Live
WTSC 91.1 FM - Clarkson University, Potsdam
WVBR - 93.5 Ithaca - Listen Live
WXHC FM 101.5 FM - Homer/Cortland
WYXL - 1040 AM - Avon
WYXL FM- 97.3 - Ithaca
Television

Gebbie Press: New York Television Stations
NewsLink: New York TV Stations
ICTV - Ithaca College Television
News 10 Now - Syracuse. (Time Warner Cable)
WBNG TV 12 CBS - Binghamton
WCNY TV 24 PBS - Syracuse
WENY TV 36 ABC - Elmira
WHAM TV 13 - Rochester
WHEC TV 10 NBC - Rochester
WICZ TV - Fox 40 - Binghamton
WIVT - Newschannel 34 - Binghamton
WKTV TV 2 NBC - Utica
WROC TV 8 CBS - Rochester
WSTM TV 3 NBC - Syracuse
WSYR TV 3 ABC - Syracuse
WSYT TV 68 FOX - Syracuse
WTVH TV 5 CBS - Syracuse
WWNY TV 7 CBS - Watertown
WWTI NewsWatch 50 ABC - Watertown

Organizations and Associations

Boy Scouts of America - Hiawatha Seaway Organization - Central and Northern New York. With historical information on Camp Loyalty (1913 - 1929) in Tully.

Caterpillar Club's Aviation History of Central New York State - Mark S. Barbour's site has material on Crash of Plane into Skaneateles Lake, April 29, 1956

Cazenovia Rowing Club

Central New York Community Foundation

Central New York Girl Scout Council

Central New York Scots

Community Health Charities of New York

CNYPCUG - Central NY PC Users Group

Cortland County Bar Association

Cortland County Youth Hockey Association

DeWitt Historical Society - Ithaca

Family Reading Partnership - Ithaca. "Non-profit community coalition that has joined forces to create a culture of literacy. FRP coordinates a variety of programs designed to promote family reading, often by using books as gifts to carry the message." (607 274-2223)

Finger Lakes Land Trust

Finger Lakes Runners Club

Food Bank of Central New York

Genoa Historical Association

Give to Others - Provides an efficent and convenient way give and to find items that are needed by charities in the Syracuse area.

Greater Homer Youth Soccer Association

Habitat for Humanity - Ithaca Chapter

Ithaca Swing Dance Network

Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies - Ithaca

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers - With Member Directory

New York State Association of Counties - With links to counties

New York State Historical Association - Cooperstown

Newark Valley Historical Society

Oneida Lake Association

Onondaga Audubon Society

Onondaga County Firefighters Underwater Search and Rescue Team

Peace Action of Central New York

Sierra Club - Susquehanna Group - Binghamton

Skaneateles Historical Society

Syracuse Macintosh Users Group (SMUG)

Outdoor Recreation

Adirondack Discovery - Parkwide interpretive program based in Inlet. With Calendar.

Adirondack Mountain Club - Has Finger Lakes, Onondaga and Susquehanna chapters.

Adventure Calls Outfitter - Rafting trips in Letchworth State Park, Cattaraugus Creek and the Salmon River.

Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles- From the Search Page you can view the full-text of a number of periodicals including Outing from 1883 to 1899. A sampling of articles from Outing: Canoeing on the Upper Delaware by Henry Russell Wray Athletics at Cornell by G. H. Lohmes How We Towed Our Way; Or, By Canal Thro' the Empire State, by L. J. Sanderson (July, 1893, No. 4, p. 272-278) Canoeing on the Genesee by Ralph K. Wing (December, 1885, No. 3, p. 308-314) Down The Susquehanna in a Canoe by John Boyle O'Reilly (January, 1885, No. 4, p. 256-267)

American Whitewater Affiliation - Provides a section on New York Rivers. See section on West Canada Creek, NY: Trenton Falls to Herkimer

Antique and Classic Boat Society - Finger Lakes Chapter

Barnes Corners Ski Trails - "Located adjacent to N.Y.S. Rte. 177 in Jefferson County, Town of Rodman, and also in Lewis County, Town of Pinckney. Traversing this 12,000 acre woodland are a number of cross country ski trails with skill levels varying from novice to intermediate. These trails run through a variety of terrain from level and slightly uphill/gentle downhill to more challenging climbs and downhill runs on intermediate trails. The land cover types range from northern hardwoods and conifer plantations to open wetlands. Trails pass through deer yards (used by over-wintering deer), and cross over Fish Creek (by bridge). Some trails provide spectacular views of Inman Gulf."

Belleayre Mountain - Highmount

Backroad Bicycling in the Finger Lakes Region (2004) - By Mark Roth and Sally Walters

Black River Environmental Improvement Association (BREIA) - Boonville. "The largest groomed cross-country skiing trail system in the East - 52.17 kilometers of groomed trails."

Bon Ton Roulet - 400 mile, seven-day bicycle camping trip.

Auburn Skin Divers Association - With Dive Log, Calendar and Meeting Mintues.

Cabela's New York Hunting Information

Canoe Guide to Western & Central New York State - Adirondack Mountain Club. Published in 1993, the book is available at Amazon for $29.95.

Canoeing and Kayaking in Cayuga County

Carpenter Road Ski Trails - "Offers 8 miles of scenic pathways for skiers in the winter and for hikers and bikers during the summer season. It is part of the Lesser Wilderness State Forest in the Lewis County towns of Turin, West Turin and Martinsburg."

Catskill Center - Arkville. With GIS Atlas, Catskill Fire Tower Project and Virtual Hikes.

Cayuga County Parks & Trails Commission

Cayuga Lake Cruising Fleet

Cayuga Nordic Ski Club

Cayuga Trails Club - Ithaca

Central New York Orienteering

Central New York Whitewater Club

Columns:

Utica Observer-Dispatch - With archives

Cornell Outdoor Education - With information on the Climbing Wall, open to the public and on Base Camp Cornell a summer program for students aged 14-18.

Cortland Line Company - Fly fishing equipment

CNY DIRT - Group dedicated to protection of greater Syracuse area mountain bike trails. Includes a guide to Mountain Bike Trails in Central New York.

Cycling the Erie Canal Bike Tour - 400 mile bike tour from Buffalo to Albany.

Finger Lakes Cycling Club

Finger Lakes Land Trust - With information on events and FLLT Nature Preserves including the Bahar Nature Preserve on Skaneateles Lake.

Finger Lakes National Forest

Finger Lakes Trail

Flying Scot Sailing Association - With results of the 2000 New York Lakes District Regatta

General Clinton Canoe Regatta - Cooperstown to Bainbridge. (Held annually on Memorial Day weekend.)

GORP:Great Outdoor Recreation Pages - Has information on Nordic Skiing in New York State, Finger Lakes Fishing and a New York Resource Listings. Following the Finger Lakes Trail: Three Walks in New York's Finger Lakes Hills describes Morgan Hill, Hi Tor and Gannett Hill.

GoSki New York

Grasse River Boatworks - Canton company designs and manufactures high performance canoes and boats in molded carbon fiber or cedar woodstrip and fiberglass.

Greek Peak Ski Resort - Virgil

Hemlock Canoe Works - Hemlock, New York (585-367-3040)

Ithaca Yacht Club

Jim Schug Trail - Dryden

KaNaWaKe Canoe Club (Ka-Na-Wa-Ke) - Syracuse

Labrador Mountain - Truxton. See also Ski Cam

Lake Trout: Big, Deep and Seductive

- By David Wallis, New York Times, August 17, 2007.

National Aquatic Service - Syracuse. Offers Summer Skaneateles dives.

New York State Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources

New York eBird - "Online database for recording and exploring bird sightings in New York State." A collaboration of Audubon New York, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the New York State Ornithological Association.

New York Marathon Canoe Racing - With Cortland YMCA Canoe Classic 2001 Results

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Has an alphabetical listing of parks, although most of these links take you to Reserve America. More information on these parks can be found at L.L. Bean's Outdoors Online and GORP. Searching Google Groups will also locate useful information about parks. Outside Online is another potential source of information.

New York State Region 7 State Forests - DEC Environmental Navigator. See also Region 7 State Lands

North Country National Scenic Trail - "Links outstanding scenic, natural, recreational, historic, and cultural areas in seven of our northern States--New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota." See also North Country Trail Association. The 3,200 mile trail will frun from Crown Point on Lake Champlain to Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota where it will connect with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail which goes to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon. Certified sections of the North Country trail in New York include the Finger Lakes Trail in Treman State park, Watkins Glen State Park, Connecticut Hill, Danby State Forest and Virgil Mountain.

North Country Trail Association

Northeast Paddlers Message Board

Onondaga County Parks

Onondaga Cycling Club

Onondaga Ski Club

Organization of Biological Field Stations - with links to Field Stations in New York.

Osceola Tug Hill X-Country Ski Center - Camden. Also in the area is the Winona State Forest.

Power & Paddle Outdoor Products - Candor

Rising Trout Outfitter - New York Mills.

Ruth's Waterfalls of the Finger Lakes and Rochester, NY - With map.

Sailboat Shop - Skaneateles. With information on the Flying Scot New York Lakes District Regatta, July 8-9, 2000.

Salmon Hills - Cross country ski resort in Redfield. You can stay in yurts

Seneca Daysails - Watkins Glen

Ski Central Ski Reports - Ski reports for Hammond Hill, Connecticut Hill, Arnot Forest, Hector, Yellow Barn, Danby Forest, Podunk, Bear Swamp, Tug Hill, Highland Forest and Sugar Hill. (Needs to be updated more frequently.)

Song Mountain Resort - Tully

Sportfishing and Aquatic Resources Education Program (SAREP) - Cornell Cooperative Extension program provides Selected Fishes of New York State with color images, description and distribution maps.

Stoney Pond State Forest - Nelson. See map

Sunset Adventures Balloon Rides - Auburn

SUNY Cortland Outdoor Education Center - With Essays.

Syracuse University Outling Club

Toggenburg Mountain Winter Sports Center - Fabius

Trout Unlimited - Has chapters in

Maps

Tug Hill Recreation Guide - This guide, created by the Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust, has maps of Tug Hill Recreation areas for cross-country skiing, hiking, biking and fishing access including:

Black River Environmental Improvement Association (BREIA) Jackson Hill Trails - "30 miles of groomed, tracked trails." See also the BREIA Egypt Road Trails.

Littlejohn Wildlife Management Area Cross-Country Ski Trails & Hiking Trails

Osceola-Tug Hill Cross Country Ski Center

Salmon Hills Cross Country Ski Center

Whetstone Gulf State Park - Located 6 miles south of Lowville just off Route 26.

Winona Forest Recreation Area

Tug Hill Ski Club - Provides a map of the Winona Forest Recreation Area

Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River - U.S.National Park Service.

Victory Boat Company - Fair Haven. Maker of the Victory Swift, a high performance outboard runabout.

Winona State Forest Ski Trails

Wooden Canoe Heritage Association - There is an online video.

Performing Arts

Actors with ties to Central New York

Syracuse: Tom Cruise (Mapother), Richard Gere, Alex Baldwin

Cazenovia: Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Rochester: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Watertown: Viggo Mortensen

Anderson Center for th Arts - SUNY Binghamton (607-777-6802 and 607-777-2787)

Appleseed Productions - Syracuse

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Blackfriars Theatre - Rochester

Cider Mill Playhouse - Endicott (607-748-7363)

Clemens Center for the Performing Arts - Elmira

Comedy Central - Syracuse, Geneva and Sackets Harbor

Cornell University Department of Theatre, Film & Dance

Cortland Repertory Theatre - Edward Jones Playhouse, Pavilion in Dwyer Memorial Park, Little York (607-753-6161)

Earlville Opera House

Endicott Performing Arts Center (EPAC)

Hangar Theatre - Ithaca

Icarus Theatre Ensemble - Ithaca

Ithaca College Department of Theatre Arts

Ithaca Swing Dance Network

Kirkland Art Center - Clinton (315-853-8871)

Kitchen Theatre - Ithaca

Know Theatre - Binghamton

Landmark Theatre - Syracuse

Le Moyne College Performing Arts Center - DeWitt

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse - Auburn

Performers and Programs - Regional online performer database created in collaboration with the Mohawk Valley, Southern Adirondack and the Upper Hudson Library Systems. Database is searchable by category including animals, authors, clowning, crafts, dance, history, life skills, literature, magic, media, museums, music, puppetry, science, sports storytelling and theater.

Players of Utica

Redhouse Arts Center - Syracuse

SRO Productions - Binghamton

Stanley Theatre - Utica

Syracuse Arts Net

Syracuse Stage - 820 East Genesee St. (315-443-4008)

Syracuse University Drama Department

Ti-Ahwaga Community Players and the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center - Owego (607-687-2130)

Real Estate

Cinquanti Real Estate - Cortland

Cortland County Board of Realtors

Cortland County List of Delinquent Tax Properties

Cummins Real Estate - Cortland

Gonda Real Estate - Cortland

Hage Real Estate - Cortland

Living Better, Inc.

Lucy Knapp Real Estate, Inc. - Keuka Lake waterfront properties

New York Association of Realtors - With clickable map

New York Real Estate: Cortland

New York State Department of State - With a searchable Index of Licensees and Registrants. You can search by ID number, name or business name for the following types of licenses/registrations for a Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Branch Office, Real Estate Salesperson, Real Estate Associate Broker or a Real Estate Broker.

New York Times Havens Columns

Where Chardonnay and Nascar Go Side by Side [Watkins Glen, New York]

- By Dave Caldwell, New York Times, October 12, 2007.

Hunting, Snowmobiling and Rural Charms [Norwich, New York] - By Julia Lawlor, New York Times, November 17, 2006.

Onondaga County Property Tax Database

Testa Calco Real Estate

Tompkins County Department of Assessment

Yahoo Real Estate Home Values - Search by location or price range

Yaman Real Estate - Cortland

Religion

Abbey of the Genesee - Piffard. There is an online Bread Store. The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey .

Auburn Theological Seminary - Founded in Auburn, New York in 1818, it moved to the campus of Union Theological Seminary on Manhattan's upper west side in 1939. All that remains in Auburn is the Willard Memorial Chapel, a Romanesque Revial building designed by A.J. Warner, which has a complete Louis Comfort Tiffany interior and designated a National Historic Landmark in 20005. See Finding Aid for Auburn Theological Seminary Records, 1818-2001.

Burned-Over District - Brief history of revivalism, radicalism and utopian experiments in Western New York. (Two titles document the religious fervor that swept upstate New York: The Burned-Over District; the Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850 by F R. Cross, Cornell University Press, 1950, now out-of-print, and Islands of holiness: rural religion in upstate New York, 1790-1860 by Curtis D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 1989. A basic search in the Cornell University Library catalog for call number BR555.N7 will retrieve similar titles.)

Cazenovia Seminary - For history see: First Fifty Years of Cazenovia Seminary: 1825-1875 written in 1877. Daniel Willard Fiske attended the semnary in 1845-1847, Elias Bowen was a "Methodist preacher, trustee of Cazenovia Seminary".Clinton Liberal Institutef; and Leland Stanford also was a student there.

Churches in the Syracuse N.Y. Area - Jim Nelson

Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography - See Dolphus Skinner and Caroline Soule

Diocese of Central New York - With an alphabetical list of parishes.

Greek Orthodox Parishes in the United States - Searchable directory

Holy Trinity Church - Russian Orthodox Church in Jordanville, location of the Holy Trinity Seminary. (See A Russian Church Founded to Preserve a Religion Celebrates 75 Years, by Michelle York, New York Times, September 5, 2005.)

North Central New York Conference of the United Methodist Church - Has a Directory

Religious Movements Homepage - University of Virginia site has information on the Oneida Community

Study Center for Early Religious Life in Western New York - Cornell University.

Syracuse Post Standard: Religion

Uncle Dale's Readings in Early Mormon History: Old Newspaper Articles on the Mormons - Dale R. Broadhurst. There is a New York State Chronological Index and a regional index. (1795-1825, 1826-28, 1847-99). See W. R. Hine's Statement (Arthur B. Deming's Naked Truths About Mormonism, Oakland, California, Volume I, number 1, January 1888) and Statement of Mr. Hale (Susquehanna Register, Montrose, May 1, 1834). W. R. Hine was born February 11, 1803, at Colesville, Windsor Township, Broome County, N.Y. and there met Joseph Smith who "dug for salt two summers, near and in sight of my house" and Mr. Hale was the father of Joseph Smith's first wife, Emma. See also Joseph Smith's Susquehanna Years by Larry C. Porter, Ensign, February, 2001, pp. 42-51, and Church Educational System: New York and Pennsylvania Period. There is a searchable index to the Church in Periodical Literature. You can also search the LDS Church News Archives

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Directory

William Wines Phelps - W. W. Phelps (February 17, 1792 - March 6, 1872) was a journalist, musician and well-known Mormon elder. His family moved to Homer, N.Y. in 1800. He married Stella (Sally) Waterman (1797-1874) on April 28, 1815 and four of their children were born in Homer: William Waterman, b. Jan. 23, 1823, died 1886; Sabrina, b. Aug 30, 1816; Jerusha, b. Nov. 1, 1821; and Sarah, b. July 19, 1825. He published a paper called the Western Courier (1820-1823) in Homer, N.Y., the Lake Light (1827-1829) in Trumansburg, N.Y. with R. M. Bloomer, the Ontario Phoenix (1828-1832) in Canandaigua, N.Y. with R. M. Bloomer, and the Evening and Morning star (Jan. 1832-July 1833) in Independence, Missouri. In 1833 he published A Book of Commandments for the Government of the Church of Christ, also in Independence. The Epistles of Oliver Cowdery on the Bringing in of a New Dispensation, a title owned by Yale and Harvard, was published in 1844 with title: Letters by Oliver Cowdery, to W.W. Phelps. A search in Worldcat determines that Brigham Young University Library owns a collection of "letters and journal extracts written by W.W. Phelps and his family between 1835 and 1865. There are seventeen items, all of which are handwritten. The items have been cleaned and enclosed in protective covers. The original items are restricted. Included in the collection are photocopies and typescripts of all the items....This collection contains 17 manuscript items from the papers of W.W. Phelps...These materials were in the possession of descendants of W.W. Phelps before they were donated to Special Collections." An advanced search by author for Phelps, William Wines in the catalog of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University will retrieve 47 results, including the record for the typescript of the Mark Hofman forgery known as the Salamander letter, a letter from Martin Harris to William W. Phelps, dated Palmyra, Oct 23d 1830. Worldcat also provides the following biographical infomation on Phelps "William Wines Phelps (1792-1872) joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1831. He performed many services for the Church, including working as a printer, a school superintendent, a hymnist, an editor for the Church hymn book, postmaster in Missouri, and a scribe for Joseph Smith. He was excommunicated in the year 1839, but came back to the Church two years later. In Utah, he served in the State Legislature several times. He was married to Sally Waterman." Among the biographies provided by Saints Without Halos is one on William W. Phelps with links to primary sources.

Restaurants, Food and Drink

CNY Menus

Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty

New York State Brewers Association

New York State Restaurant Association - They have a searchable Dining Guide

Syracuse.com: Dining

Table Hopping

Auburn

Auburn Diner - 64 Columbus Street (315-253-7375)

Lasca's - 252 Grant Ave. (315-253-4885)

Restaurant at Elderberry Pond - 3728 Center Street Road, (315-252-6025)

Springside Inn - 6141 West Lake Road on Owasco Lake (315-252-7247)

Binghamton

Eating Out? Some recommendations from our Admissions staff... - Binghamton University

Antonio's Galleria and Cafe - 100 Oak Hill, Ave., Endicott (607-748-6269). Good gelato.

Cortese Restaurant - 117 Robinson St, Binghamton (607-723-6477)

J. Michaels Restaurant & Lounge - 58 Court Street, Binghamton (607-720-6453). Good flatbread pizza.

Kampai Japanese Steak House - 3325 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal (607-798-7521)

Little Venice Restaurant - 111 Chenango Street, Binghamton (607-724-2513)

Lost Dog Cafe - 222 Water Street, Binghamton (607-771-6063)

Sam A. Lupo & Sons, Inc. - Makers of Lupo's Original Endicott Style Spiedies. The restaurant, Lupo's S&S Char Pit, is located at 6 West State St., Binghamton.

Number 5 - 33 South Washington Street, Binghamton (607-723-0555)

Oak's Inn - 100 Oak Hill Ave., Endicott (607-748-2764)

P. S. Restaurant - 100 Rano Boulevard, Vestal (607-770-0056)

Plantation House - 2 Pumphouse Road, Vestal (607-786-9878)

Russell’s Steak House - 1101 West Main Street, Endicott (607-754-2333)

Spiedie & Rib Pit - 3908 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal (607-729-2679)

Cazenovia

Brae Loch Inn - (315-655-3431) With menu.

Brewster Inn

Circa Restaurant - 76 Albany Street, chef/owner is Alicyn Hart (315-655-8768)

Lincklaen House - Cazenovia. Known for their popovers. The more casual Seven Stone Steps tavern is downstairs.

Wheatberry’s

Cooperstown

Brewery Ommegang - Cooperstown brewery produces bottle-conditioned Belgian style ales.

Cooperstown Brewing

Cortland

Amelia's Ristorante - 152 Port Watson St. (607-756-9679)

Community Restaurant - 10 Main St. (607-756-5441)

Cortland Dining & Lodging

Doug's Fish Fry - 206 West Rd (607-753-9184)

East Side Bakery - 112 Elm Street (607-756-4030)

Fabio's Italian Restaurant - 179 Homer Avenue (607-753-6969)

Glen Haven Hotel - On the southeastern end of Skaneateles Lake. Open Mother's Day through September. (607-749-3779)

Green Arch - 107 Elm St. (607-753-1481)

Hollywood Restaurant - 27 Groton Ave. (607 -753-3242)

Jack Danielson's - 60 Main St. (607-753-7753)

Linani's Cookie Factory - 6 N. Main St., Homer (607-749-9999)

Pane di Casa - Main Street bakery run by Lisa and Ryan Curry sells homemade breads (Italian, cheese and Jalapeno, olive, focaccia, seven grain) rolls, scones, biscotti, muffins, cookies, breakfast sandwiches, soups and salads. 46 Main Street (607-753-0388)

Pita Gourmet - 41 Main St. Middle Eastern cuisine (607-756-4442)

Starr Bistro - 117 Main St. (607-299-0077)

Tuscan Grill - Main St. (607-756-5744)

Uncle Louie's Backyard - 294 Tompkins St. (607-758-3062)

Finger Lakes Region

Aurora Inn - Aurora. Offers summer cocktail cruises.

Belhurst Castle - Geneva

Bully Hill Vineyards - Hammondsport

Cayuga Wine Trail

Dano's Heuriger Restaurant - Lodi . Dano Hutnik & Karen Gilman (607-582-7555)

Fox Run Vineyards

Geneva on the Lake

Knapp Winery & Vineyard Restaurant - Ernsberger Road, Romulus (800-869-9271 and 607-869-9271)

Madderlake Cafe

Ports Cafe - Geneva

Pumpkin Hill Bistro & Antiques - 2051 Route 90, Aurora (315-364-7091)

Seneca Lake Wine Trail

Sheldrake Point Vineyard & Café

Suzanne Fine Regional Cuisine - Lodi. Chef-owner is Suzanne Stack.(607-582-7545)

Ithaca area

Antlers Restaurant

Benn Conger - Groton

Bluestone Bar and Grill

Boatyard Grill - 525 Taughannock Blvd. (607-256-2628)

Barbecued Chicken and Other Meats (1950) - By Robert C. Baker (1921-2006). "This is the famous Cornell Chicken Recipe, as written by its creator, Dr. Robert C. Baker, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Animal Sciences at the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. This Recipe was used by Dr. Baker at the "Chicken Coop," his legendary restaurant at the New York State Fair. This Publication also offers suggestions for Turkey, Pork and Fish. If you don't have the perfect BBQ pit for broilers, plans are included for building a simple backyard cinder block pit, as well as the large collapsable metal ones used by fire departments everywhere. This publication is no longer available in print form, but due to steady demand, it is being made available via a free pdf download." (DSpace at Cornell University Item 1813-2652 http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2652.)

Cabbagetown Cafe

Cafe Dewitt

Diamond's Indian Restaurant

Dijon Bistro - (607-256-0503)

Les Ducs Restaurant

Franco's Restaurant

The Heights Cafe & Grill

Ithaca Journal - Bars & Dining - See also their Ticket - Central New York Entertainment Guide

Ithaca Bakery

Ithaca Beer Company

Ithaca Farmer's Market

Ithaca Taste of the Nation

Ithaca Times Menu Guide

John Thomas Steak House - 1152 Danby Rd., Route 96B (607-273-3464)

Just A Taste - Wine and tapas bar. 116 North Aurora St. (607-277-9463)

Kilpatrick's Publick House - Located in the Hilton Garden Hotel

Lucatelli's Ristorante - 205 Elmira Rd., (607-273-0777)

Madeline's Restaurant and Bar - Corner of N. Aurora and E. State, The Commons (607-277-2253)

Maxie's Supper Club - 635 West State St. (607-272-4136)

M. V. Manhattan - Dinner cruises on Cayuga Lake.

Moosewood Restaurant - 215 N. Cayuga Street, Dewitt Building (607-273-9610)

Olivia Restaurant and Bar - (607-272-1020)

Pangea Restaurant

Ralphs's Ribs

Simeon's on the Commons - 224 East State Street (607-272-2212)

Smart Monkey Cafe - 335 Elmira Road (607-273-1455)

Station Restaurant

Statler Hotel - Cornell University, Ithaca. Location of Taverna Banfi

Stella's

Taughannock Farms Inn - Trumansburg

Tower Club at Ithaca College

Watercress - 2 Hickory Hollow Lane, N Triphammer Rd. Owner/chef is Hans Butler (607-257-0823)

Viva Taqueria

Willow of Ithaca

Woodland Roadhouse Restaurant & Caterer - 9632 Rte. 96, Trumansburg (607-387-9101)

Misc

Charlotte's Creekside Inn - 3960 Sconondoa Road, Oneida (315-363-3377)

Colgate Inn - Hamilton (315-824-2300)

Copper Turret - Morrisville (315-684-6699)

Hamilton Inn - 4480 East Lake Road, Hamilton (315-824-1245)

La Petite Maison - 148 Main St., Waterville (315-841-8030)

Sackets Harbor Brewing Company

Stella Luna Stazione - Oneonta. Italian Restaurant.

Tinelli's Hathaway House - Solon, Cortland County (607-836-6006). See also proposal for Hathaway Condo and Spa Resort

Turning Stone: Dining - Restaurants at Turning Stone Casino include Wildflowers, Rodizio, Forest Grill Steakhouse, Pino Bianco, and Peach Blossom. Wildflowers Restaurant (800-771-7711) in The Lodge was highly reviewed in Turning Stone Picks a Winner with Wildflowers, by Yolanda Wright, Syracuse Post Standard, May 5, 2005. "Dinner for four, with appetizers, three salads, entrees, desserts, coffee, Oneida Nation tax and tip, was $342.30." See Dining at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino

Skaneateles

Angel's Heavenly Burgers - 22 Jordan Street (315-685-0100)

Bluewater Grill - 11 W. Genesee St. Owned by Dan Riordan and Bill Eberhardt (315-685-6600)

Doug's Fish Fry - 8 Jordan Street (315-685-3288)

c.1820 House - 1715 East Lake Road, Spafford (315-673-2778). Richard Schreiner is chef/owner. See Rooms with a view, in all seasons, by Margaret McCormick, Syracuse Post Standard, August 23, 2006.

Glen Haven Hotel - On the southeastern side of Skaneateles Lake. Open Mother's Day through September. (607-749-3779)

Joelle's French Bistro - 4423 State Street Road, three miles outside the village (315-685-3063). Joelle Mollinger and Alain Castel opened in March. See Couple to open French bistro in Skaneateles [Joelle's French Bistro] by Linda Ober, Auburn Citizen. January 8, 2007. "Castel's family is from Antibes in the south of France, and his father was a famous chef who moved the family to Nairobi, where Castel lived for 19 years. Castel then went to France and worked as a busboy and maitre d', at Hotel du Cap's Eden-Roc restaurant and in 1982 moved to New York City....[Joelle] Mollinger, a law school graduate who decided instead to pursue cooking, her self-taught passion, moved to New York City in 1990 after running her own restaurants in Paris." See also Joelle's Bistro serves fine French feast

by Yolanda Wright, Syracuse Post Standard, May 3, 2007 and French flavor to hit Skaneateles, by Linda Ober, Skaneateles Journal, January 2, 2007 and New York couple brings French bistro to Skaneateles [not online] by Greg Erbstoesser, appeared in the Central New York Business Journal, January 26, 2007

Kabuki - 12 West Genesee Street (315-685-7234)

The Krebs Restaurant - Historic Skaneateles restaurant offers a traditional prix fixe meal. (315-685-5714) Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ate here.

Lodge at Welch Allyn - "William Noah Allyn International Conference Center, Central New York's premier destination for weddings, business conferences, and special events."

Mandana Inn

Mid-Lakes Navigation - Brunch, lunch and dinner cruises on Skaneateles Lake

Mirbeau Inn & Spa - 851 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles. Chef is Edward Moro. (315.685.1927)

Niles Gourmet Country Market - 4592 Grange Hall Road (315 -784-5015). Owned by Sandie and Eric Becker and located in a log cabin overlooking Skaneateles and Owasco lakes. The have excellent gourmet take-out food. We sampled some delicious lasagna, squash soup, and gellato. Highly recommended! "It's a natural and organic gourmet specialty market. We sell natural farm-raised beef, lamb and buffalo meat; locally grown honey, maple syrup and produce; and specialty oils and spreads and vinegar." (Going Natural In Moravia Niles, Syracuse Post Standard, August 3, 2006.)

Patisserie - 4 Hannum Street (315-685-2433)

Restaurant at Elderberry Pond - 3728 Center Street Road, Auburn (315-252-6025)

Rosalie's Cucina - 841 West Genesee Street (315-685-2200)

Sherwood Inn - 25 West Genesee Street. Chef is Mark Albino. They take reservations for parties of six or more. The bakery sells bread, (315-685-3405)

Syracuse area

L'Adour Restaurant Français - Syracuse. Yann Guigne is chef.

Angotti's Family Restaurant - 725 Burnet Avenue (315-472-8403). See Angotti's Family Restaurant, Syracuse by Yolanda Wright, Syracuse Post Standard, (nd)

Antonio's Ristorante - 700 N. Salina Street (315-425-1946)

Arad Evans Inn - Fayetteville. Chef is Brian Shore, formerly at Kettle Lakes in Tully (315-637-2020)

Avicolli's - Oswego Rd., Liverpool

BC Restaurant - Armory Square (315-701-0636)

Bella Vita - 313 N. Geddes St., (315-422-8280)

Biscotti Cafe & Gelateria - 741 North Salina Street (315-478-9583)

C.L. Evers

Carnegie Cafe & Catering Company

Casa de Copani - 3414 Burnet Ave. (315-463-1031)

La Cena - 105 E. Genesee St. (315-637-3388). Chef-owner is Johanna Yorke.

Choices - Restaurant-quality takeout restaurant, 207 W. Manlius Street, East Syracuse (315-414-0401)

Coleman's Authentic Irish Pub - Corner of Tompkins & Lowell, Tipperary Hill (315-476-1933)

Columbus Baking Company - 502 Pearl Street (315-422-2913)

Craftsman House -7300 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville (315-637-9999),

Danzer's German & American Restaurant - 153 Ainsley Drive (315-422-0089)

Daniella's Steak House - Best Western Hotel, 670 State Fair Blvd., Geddes. (315-471-9874) Dante - 215 Walton St., Armory Square (315-479-9383)

Diamond Catering at the Mill - Their "Gourmet Your Way" is a takeout/delivery service (315-487-0647)

Di Lauros Bakery - 502 East Division Street (315-471-0519)

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

Empire Brewing Company - Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo

Francesca's Cucina - 545 N. Salina Street (315-425-1556)

Gentile's Restaurant - Kevin Gentile, chef

Glen Loch Restaurant - Jamesville

Grimaldi's Luna Park - 6430 Yorktown Circle, DeWitt (315-432-4614)

Harrison Bakery - 4469 E. Genesee Street (315-422-1468)

Hawley Green Bistro - 304 Hawley Avenue (315-423-0442). See Hawley Green Bistro to replace Pascale’s Bakehouse, by Paige Palmateer, Central New York Business Journal, May 25, 2007.

Jamaican Lick Finger Restaurant - 585 South Ave. (315-476-5850)

Jerk Hut Restaurant - 440 South Ave. (315-478-5303)

The Hotshoppe - 311 South Clinton Street (315-424-1010)

Joey's

King Davids - Middle Eastern food. Two locations: 129 Marshall Street, Syracuse (315-471-5000) and 317 Town Drive, Fayetteville (315-637-0485)

Kyoko Japanese Restaurant - 111 Brooklea Drive, Fayetteville (315-637-9000)

Lao Village - 208 W. Genesee St (315-435-8151) A review recommends the Panang curry with tofu or chicken and the spicy basil chicken

Liehs & Steigerwald - "Homemade German & Specialty Sausages." 1857 Grant Blvd. (315-474-2171)

Lombardi's Imports - 534 Butternut Street (315 472-5900)

Middle Ages Brewing Company - 120 Wilkinson Street

Mission Restaurant - 304 E. Onondaga Street (315-475-7344)

Papa Gallo Mexican Restaurant - 205 Genesee Street, Fayetteville (315-632-4789)

Pascale Wine Bar & Restaurant - 204 West Fayette Street (315-471-3040)

Pascale Bakehouse & Cafe - 304 Hawley Avenue (315-471-3050)

Pasta's Daily Bread - 308 South Franklin Street (315-701-0224)

Pensabene's Park West Restaurant- 3380 Milton Avenue (315-487-6343)

Phoebe's Restaurant and Coffee Lounge - 900 E. Genesee Street (315-475-5154)

Poppy Garden Cafe - 211 N. Clinton Street

Rico's Ristorante - 320 E. First St., East Syracuse. (315-432-1862)

Rachel's - Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center, 801 University Ave., (315-475-3000).

Ragusa Italian Bakery - 1421 Lodi Street (315-422-8892)

Redfield's at the Marx - Radisson Syracuse Hotel and Conference Center, 701 E. Genesee St.,

Riley's - 312 Park Street (315-471-7111)

Sahota Palace - 668 Old Liverpool Road, Liverpool. Indian food. (315-413-0016)

Salsarita's Fresh Cantina - Route 57, in the Glenn Crossing Plaza, Liverpool (315-413-0180) (chain)

Scotch & Sirloin

Syracuse New Times Dining Guide to Central New York

Syracuse Real Food Co-op

Thanos Imported Grocery - 330 North Salina Street (315-422-4085)

Web-Takeout.com -New Syracuse-based takeout service

Utica

Acropolis Greek Restaurant - 621 James Street, Utica (315-793-1015)

Cafe Canole - 900 Culver Avenue (315-733-6592)

Dominique's Chesterfield - 713 Bleeker St., Utica (315-738-9710)

Gabriel's Trattoria - 1 Campion Road, New Hartford (315-797-8207)

Cafe Del Buono - 4609 Commercial Drive, New Hartford (315-736-3023)

Georgio's Village Cafe - 60 Genesee Street, New Hartford (315-792-1111)

Hamilton College: Area Restaurants

Lupino's Trackside Restaurant - 401 Main Street, Utica (315-733-7811)

Phoenician Restaurant - 623 French Rd, New Hartford (315-733-2709)

Rosa's Italian Bakery - 2644 Genesee St., Utica (315-721-7672). Hours: Mon:10-6, Tu-Fri:8-6, Sat:8-2, Sun: Party Tray pickups only. They sell excellent sausage roll and Italian cookies.

Symeon's Greek Restaurant - 4941 Commercial Dr., Yorkville (315-736-4074)

Tom Cavallos - 40 A Genesee St., New Hartford (315-735-1578)

Utica College: Local Restuarants

Ventura's - 787 Lansing Street, Utica (315-732-8381)

Utica Observer-Dispatch

Schools (K - 12)

Binghamton City School District

Broome-Tioga BOCES

Catholic Diocese of Syracuse: Schools

Cazenovia Central School District

Cayuga Onondaga BOCES - With links to Component School Districts

Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs - Regional, state, and national resource in character education located at SUNY Cortland. (Respect and responsibility and the fourth and fifth Rs.)

Cortland City School District

Cortland Homer Teacher Center

Dryden Central School District

Groton Central School District

Homer Central School District

Ithaca City School District

Ithaca Journal: Schools

Lansing Central Schools

Manlius Pebble Hill School - DeWitt

Moravia Central School District

National Public School Locator - National Center for Education Statistics

New York State BOCES Listings - Provided by Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES

New York State Council of School Superintendents (NYCOSS)

New York State Education Department - With School District Index, a County List and links to other Information, Reporting, and Technology Services.

New York State Education Department: Office of Counsel - With Decisions of the Commissioner from July 1991 to date.

New York State Public High School Athletic Association

New York State Regents Exams - Scanned NYS Regents High School Examinations available online at the Library in TIFF and GIF format

New York State School Administrators - Listed alphabetically by district.

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) - Has information on Member Benefits, the Effective Teaching Program

Nursery Schools in Tompkins County - Day Care & Child Development Council of Tompkins County, Inc.

Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) - Provides links to area schools. The School Library System has an online catalog (O.U.R.S. - Online Union Resource Sharing).

Oswego County BOCES

St. Mary's School - Cortland

Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga BOCES

STAR Program: New York State-Funded Exemption from School Taxes

Syracuse City School District

Teacher Center of Broome County

Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES

William George Agency for Children Services - Freeville. Formerly known as George Junior Republic. The William R. George Family Papers, 1750-1989 are owned by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library.

Science and Technology

Hartwick College Virtual Fieldtrips - Hartwick Geology Department. Oneonta to the Hudson River with List of stops. (See also Mustaf's Mega GeoLinks

Heavens-Above - Resource for obtaining the longitude and latitude for over 2 million locations. Provides detailed predictions of the Earth-orbiting satellites, generated in real-time and customized for your location and time zone. (Syracuse, Ithaca, Binghamton)

Landslide Susceptibility in the Tully Valley Area, Finger Lakes Region, New York

Mount Morris Dam - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District sites include Almond Lake, East Sydney Lake, Arkport Dam, Whitney Point Dam and Kinzua Dam and Allegheny Resevoir.)

New York State Geological Association - Provides full-text access to Field Guidebooks from 1956 to 1969 including

Cornell Guidebook - 1959,

Hamilton College - 1960

SUNY Binghamton - 1963

Syracuse University - 1964

Union College - 1965

Organization of Biological Field Stations - Has links to Field Stations in New York.

Paleontological Research Institution - Ithaca. See A Family Gallery, Claws and All and article about the Museum of the Earth and Barbara Page, an artist from Trumansburg, who has painted a series of 544 portraits of fossils. (New York Times, June 6, 2000.)

Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey Search Form - Locate citations for articles.

Steven C. Chamberlain Collection - "Some of the finest examples of New York State minerals held in a private collection." See also Minerals of the Gouverneur Talc Company No. 4 Quarry (Valentine Deposit) by Steven C. Chamberlain, Rocks & Minerals , July, 1999, about the Gouverneur Talc Company, Town of Diana, Lewis County, New York, location of deposits of massive blue calcite and massive white wollastonite, and "an interesting locality for unusual microminerals."

Wells, John West (1907-1994) - Leading authority on both modern and fossil corals, he spent most of his youth in Homer, New York. "...being in the heart of Devonian country, he examined the tabulate and rugose corals from those rocks. His analysis of Heliophyllum halli2 remains the seminal description of individual variation in fossil invertebrates."

Shopping

Acorn Designs - Trumansburg, New York. Bookmarks, notepads, journals and notecards. "Images from nature on ecological papers." (800-299-3997)

Agricultural Market Service - Has a Farmers Market section with information on over 200 New York Farmers Markets

Aurora Shoe Co.

Beechwood House - Morrisville firm makes barbecue sauces

Breed Hill Apiaries - Rockefeller Road, Moravia. They sell a very nice Basswood honey. (315-497-1168)

Buy Local: New York -

Carousel Center - Syracuse

Cathedral Candle Company - Syracuse. Founded in 1897 by Jacob Steigerwald, the compnay manufactures church candles. They are known for handcrafted beeswax candles and molded wax ornamentation.

Cayuga Wooden Boat Works - Ithaca and Cayuga

Chelsea Premium Outlets - New York stores in Waterloo and Woodbury Common

ClassfiedsNY

Cobblers Cottage - Ithaca. 222 Elmira Road (607-273-2951) Located next to Northside Wine & Spirit.

Cobblestone Valley Farm Preble. (607-749-4032). Organic milk, pasture-fed poultry & beef, pick-your-own strawberries.

Cold Brook Farm - Pete and Tammie Whitson, Marathon, New York. "Registered Rambouillet sheep, fine fleeces, natural lambskins, & handspun yarn." They also sell various bath salts, soaps, balms and toners.

Cortland Beer Company - Established by Dan Cleary and Terry Vestal in October 2007. Their first beer is Crown City Kolsch.

Cortland Line Company - Fly fishing equipment

Dalton's American Decorative Arts - Syracuse

Drooz - Children's artwork and furnishing created by Shelly Kennedy. Her studio is locatd in an old farmhouse near Skaneateles Lake.

Eureka Camping Center - Binghamton factory outlet sells tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, canoes, kayaks and camping accessories.

Finger Lakes Artists and Crafters Network

Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty

Finger Lakes Stone Co. - Ithaca

Flax Designs - They have an annual barn sale in Ithaca (April 25-27, 2008) at the Triphammer Mall, 2255 N. Triphammer Road. Neesh clothing is also available at the sale. (Hours: Fri:10-7, Sat 9-5, Sun 11-4)

Fontana Shoes - Ithaca. Shoes, repair and clothing

GreenStar Cooperative Market - Ithaca (607-273-9392)

Grisamore Farms - Locke

Grove - Art and furniture gallery in Aurora

Handwork - Cooperative gallery. 102 W. State Street, Ithaca (607- 273-9400)

Harden Furniture - McConnellsville

Hapanowicz Bros. Meat Market - New York Mills.

Ithaca Bakery

Ithaca Farmers Market

Ives Cream - Bainbridge

Jacobsen Oriental Rugs - Syracuse

Jane Morgan's Little House - Aurora

Johnny Appleseed Farm - Nelson. Fine furniture and accessories. Their Apple Hill Cafe features a light lunch menu and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Macy's - Has stores in Shoppingtown Mall, DeWitt (315-446-4646); Carousel Center, Syracuse (315-466-3333); Johnson City (607-797-4990); Clay ( 315-622-4655); and Arnot Mall, Horsehead (607-739-3717).

Lakefront Gallery - Ithaca

Linani's Cookie Factory - Homer

Lombardi's Imports - Butternut Street, Syracuse

Ludgate Farms - Ithaca. Organic, gourmet, and natural foods, as well as local produce. 1552 Hanshaw Road. (607-257-1765)

Mackenzie-Childs - Aurora. They have an annual Barn Sale. See Customers camp out in Aurora for hours to get into MacKenzie-Childs barn sale

by Pam Lundborg, Syracuse Post Standard, June 12, 2009.

Mercer's Dairy Ice Cream - Boonville

New Hope Mills - 5983 Glen Haven Road, Moravia, 13118 (315 -252-2676)

Oakdale Mall - Johnson City

Peter's Cornucopia - 52 Genesee St. New Hartford

Petrune - 115 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca (607-277-1930). Vintage clothing.

Pyramid Mall Ithaca

Riverbend Antiques Center - Marathon

Rustic Meadow Furniture - Homer (607-749-3432)

Sailboat Shop - Skaneateles

Southwest Collections - Homer. Native American Jewelry (607-749-2913)

Stickley Furniture - Manlius

Sticks & Stitches - Marietta. (315-696-5075) wrought iron Curtain rods and homespun curtains and fabrics.

Syracuse Co-op

Tierra Farm - Valatie. Organic nuts and dried fruits.

Trader K's - 119 E State St., Ithaca (607- 272-4011). Consignment clothing shop on the Commons.

Turkey Joints - Seasonal candy, available from October until May, created in Rome

Valupage - Coupons and rebates for Tops, A&P, Big M, & P&C

Yankee Acorn - 74 North West Street, Homer (607-749-5125)

Sports

Auburn Doubledays - Toronto Blue Jays farm team

Binghamton Mets

Carrier Dome - Syracuse.

Colgate University Athletics

CoolRunning: New York Race Results

Cornell University Athletics

Cortland Standard: NY Jets

Community excited Jets camp coming to Cortland - By Holden B. Slattery, Cortland Standard, April 21, 2009. "...the airport was one of the reasons the Jets wanted to train in Cortland and that players and the owner are expected to fly in and out of it daily."

Jets to train at SUNY Cortland - By Holden B. Slattery, Cortland Standard, April 20, 2009.

Don's Mess - Photographs of Auburn runners

Empire State Games

Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse

Ithaca College Athletics

New York State Public High School Athletic Association

New York State Ski Racing Association - Nordic,Inc (NYSSRA)

SUNY Cortland Intercollegiate Athletics (Red Dragons)

Syracuse Sky Chiefs Baseball

Syracuse University Athletics

Syracuse Crunch Hockey

Syracuse OnLine - Online publication of the Herald American, Herald-Journal and the Post-Standard has Sports and High School Sports sections.

Syracuse Track Club

Time Warner Cable Sports Channel: Central New York - Calendar for channel 26

Trackmeets.com - With video archives (requiring Windows Media Player 6) of Central New York events.

USA Team Handball - Women’s National Team (WNT) is training at SUNY Cortland.

Summer Camps & Activities

American Camping Association

Camp Aldersgate - United Methodist Church

Camp Cory - Penn Yan. YMCA camp on Keuka Lake

Community School of Music & Arts - Ithaca

Cornell Adult University - Youth Program

Cornell School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions - Has programs for high school students

Cornell Summer College

Cornell University Summer Sports School

Digital Librarian: Adirondacks: Children's Camps

French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts - Hancock

Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture - Cortland

Lourdes Camp - Skaneateles Lake

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Environmental Education Camps - "Three camps, Colby, DeBruce and Rushford, educate youth who are 12 to 14 years old. The summer of 1998 marked the opening of a new camp at Pack Forest in the southern Adirondacks, where DEC offers week-long Ecology Workshops for teens who are 15 to 17 years old."

New York Summer Camps - Provides descriptions, contact information and active email and website links for hundreds of arts, sports, and academic summer camp programs for kids 8-18 on college campuses throughout New York State. Search by activity, college, or location.

SUNY Cortland Summer Sports School

Tompkins County Youth Services Summer Camp Guide

Tourism

Canoe Guide to Western & Central New York State - Adirondack Mountain Club, 1993.

The Finger Lakes Book: A Complete Guide by Katharine Delavan Dyson, Berkshire House Publishers, 2004.

Finger Lakes Panoramas by Kristian Reynolds, McBooks Press, 1999.

The Finger Lakes Region of New York: A Photographic Portrait by by Kevin Stearns, Twin Lights Publishers, 2005.

Waterfalls and Gorges of the Finger Lakes by Derek Doeffinger, McBooks Press, 2002.

Wine Tour of the Finger Lakes by Grady Wells, McBooks Press, 2004. "Where to stop, what to taste, and what to buy in New York's premier wine region ."

Digital Librarian: Skaneateles Lake

Finger Lakes Race Track - Farmington

Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance

Google Groups - Search engine for newsgroups. Some useful sections for locating information on upstate New York include: alt.culture.ny-upstate, rec.outdoors.camping (by using the advanced search form and searching only the newsgroup rec.outdoors.camping for ths subject New York, or Finger Lakes.) You can also post questions and search the archive at Fodor's Forum.

I Love NY - Tourism in New York State

Ithaca Tompkins County Convention and Visitors' Bureau

Madison County

Mid-Lakes Navigation - Skaneateles firm offers lake and canal cruises.

Mount Morris Dam - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

New York State Department of Transportation - Has information on Scenic Byways.

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Oneida County Convention and Visitor's Bureau

Resort Maps - Tourist maps of resort towns and cities has several New York maps including Ithaca, the Eastern Finger Lakes and the Western Finger Lakes.

Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnett Park - Syracuse

Ross Park Zoo - Binghamton

RoundTheBend's Online Travel Guide to Upstate New York

Seabreeze Amusement Park - Rochester

Seneca Park Zoo - Rochester

Six Flags Darien Lake

Route 90 Scenic Byway - Cayuga County. See also the New York State Scenic Byways Program

Steamboat Landing - Canandaigua. The Canandaigua Lady, a 19th-century replica of a double-decked paddlewheel steamboat, offers lunch, brunch, and dinner cruises and sightseeing excursions on Canandaigua Lake from May through October.

Syracuse Online: Discover Syracuse - With a Sunday Driver column.

Trenton Falls

Spectacular series of waterfalls on the West Canada Creek located 14 miles north of Utica, New York near the towns of Barneveld and Remsen. This was a major tourist attraction in the 19th century but is now largely unknown. "After being closed for nearly 100 years, approximately one mile of scenic trails allow the public to visit the site. The stone dust and wood mulch trails lead visitors to stunning views of the gorge and its waterfalls. Interpretive panels provide information on hydropower, geology and history. In the mid-1800s the site featured an exclusive resort hotel and was a "must see" destination between the East Coast and Niagara Falls. In October 2004, more than 4,000 visitors flocked to the site for its inaugural weekends." (This is from a Brascan Power Press Release.) The Scenic Trail will be open April 22 and 23 and April 29 and 30, 2006. (See photograph taken by Margaret Vail Anderson on October 1, 2005.) The Town Of Trenton provides Directions to Trenton Falls.
Early travel books describing Trenton Falls include: Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive (1851) by N. Parker Willis, A description of Trenton Falls, Oneida county, N.Y. (1844) by John Sherman, and Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls (1894) by Edwin R. Wallace, all from the Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection. Many artists painted there - among the more well-known are Frederic E. Church, John F. Kensett (1816-1872), and Thomas Hicks (1823-1890). See the catalog accompanying the 1989 exhibition: Art of Trenton Falls, 1825-1900. Exhibition organized by Paul D. Schweizer, with essays by David Tatham, and Carol Gordon Wood. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute [Utica], Syracuse University Press, 1989. The New-York Historical Society owns Trenton Falls, West Canada Creek, New York by Johan M. Culverhouse, 1869, and Trenton High Falls, attributed to William James Bennett, ca. 1835. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston owns Trenton Falls, New York (Suydam Falls) by John F. Kensett, c. 1851-1853, acquisition #48.438. The Secretary of State and the Diplomatic Corps at Trenton Falls, Harper's Weekly, September 19, 1863 [Vol. VII, No. 351] . This is an engraving on the cover of the magazine, made from a photograph by William J. Baker of Utica. It portrays William H. Seward, Baron De Stoeckel, M. Molina, Lord Lyons, M. Mercier, M. Schleiden, M. Bertinatti, Count Piper, M. Bodisco, Mr. Sheffield and Mr. Donaldson at the base of the Falls. Other artists who painted Trenton Falls include: Ambrose Andrews (790-1860), William James Bennett, de Witt Clinton Boutelle (1820-1884), Frederic E. Church, Johan M. Culverhouse, Thomas Doughty (1793-1856), Washington F. Friend (ca. 1820-after 1880), Robert Havell, Jr., (1793-1878), Thomas Hicks (1823-1890), David Johnson (1827-1908), Robert Jones, John F. Kensett (1816-1872) George W. King (1836-1922?), Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (1816-1897), Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), Ferdinand Joachim Richardt (1819-1895), Catherine Scollay, John White Allen Scott (1815-1907), Thomas Sully (1783-1872), James B. Sword (1839-1915), Place names associated with Trenton Falls include Alhambra Fall, Canada Creek Falls, Cascade of the Alhambra, Falls of Canada Creek, High Fall, High Falls, High Falls of Trenton, Irving's Bluff, Lower High Falls, Mohawk and Malone Railroad Bridge, Parapet Falls, Rocky Heart, Rural Resort, Sherman Falls, Sherman Fall, Sherman Falls, Suydam Falls, Thornwood, Trenton Fall, Trenton Falls Hotel, Trenton High Falls, Upper High Falls, Village Falls, It also is of great interest to geologists. See Geologic Overview of the Trenton Group at West Canada Creek, New York - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. See also Trenton Falls Scenic Trails and Trenton Falls, Chapter 13, Mohawk: Discovering the Valley of the Crystals by M. Paul Keesler. Trenton Falls, Picturesque and Descriptive. Nearby are two lovely roads to explore: Dover Road and Military Road. See Town of Russia - Roads which provides the following information "The best known of the first roads was State/Military Road that was built across the hills, originally called the State Road when it was surveyed in 1806 and then opened to travel in 1808. After leaving Albany to Johnstown, it followed a course through the Town of Oppenheim to Dolgeville and then turned northwesterly through the settlements of Salisbury, Salisbury Corners, Norway, Cold Brook, Russia, Boon's Bridge on the West Canada Creek near Prospect, and then northward to Remsen and Boonville, and eventually to Sackett's Harbor. It is the oldest road in the Town, running from southeast to northeast across the Town. During the War of 1812 this road was used to supply the fort at Oswego on Lake Ontario. Troops were marched over it and chains were carried north to close the St. Lawrence River to the British. In the early 1900's the section in Herkimer County was named Military Road."

Turning Stone Casino Resort - With Events Calendar.

Vernon Downs - Harness Racing

Western New York Travel Guide

Wolfe Island Ferry - To and from Kingston, Ontario and Cape Vincent, New York (Hornes Ferry).

Transportation

Airports

Albany International Airport

Greater Binghamton Airport

Greater Rochester International Airport - See Conditions (Real-time Status) from FAA's Flight-Delay Information

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport

Syracuse Hancock International Airport - With list of Airlines serving Syracuse.

Wilkes-Barre-Scranton International Airport

Amtrak

Campus to Campus - Express bus transportation between the Ithaca and New York City campuses of Cornell University (607 255-4628) One way: $99 and round trip:$149. Amenities include wireless internet and ethernet connections, 6 channels of XM radio, and complimentary coffee, tea, soda, and water and light snacks.

Centro - Syracuse

Cortland Transit - Homer schedule

Empire State Roads - With a listing of county roads, including Cortland

Greyhound Lines

New York State Canal System

New York State Department of Transportation

Regional Offices

Region 3 Road Work

Highway Data Services Bureau

Traffic Count Information.

New York State Thruway Authority

Traveler Information

Traveler Information: Maps with Lane Closures

Maps with Lane Closures - Syracuse Region

Weather

Construction

Press Releases

Toll & Distance Calculator

E-Z Pass

Travel Plazas

Routes 5 and 20

Short Line Bus - "We serve Cornell, Ithaca College, Binghamton University, Morrisville, Alfred, Colgate, SUNY Albany and more."

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) - Ithaca

Trailways Bus Services

Wolfe Island Ferry - To and from Kingston, Ontario and Cape Vincent, New York (Hornes Ferry).

Weather

AccuWeather - Enter zipcode

Automated Weather Service

Great Lakes Forecasting System: Lake Ontario

Intellicast New York Weather - Forecasts for Ithaca and Syracuse

National Climatic Data Center

National Weather Service Internet Weather Source: New York - For Syracuse, Binghamton, Ithaca, Elmira, and Rochester. There are also forecasts, watches and warnings for New York counties and cities.

National Weather Service - Binghamton - With weather for state and Finger Lakes Region

New York State Climate Office

NOAA Interactive Weather: New York

Northeast Regional Climate Center - Cornell University site has an Ithaca Climate Page, Current Weather Conditions Around the Northeast and weather and climate links.

Press & Sun Bulletin (Binghamton)

U.S. Geological Survey in New York - With data on acid rain, earthquakes and groundwater including Near-Real-Time Surface-Water Data. Search for Water Resources on Cortland County

Weather Channel

Weather.gov - With information on Syracuse and Ithaca

Yahoo! Syracuse New York Weather

WebCams

Birdcam - Peregrine Falcons nesting on the Kodak Building, Rochester.

Clarkson University - Potsdam

Cornell - Willard Straight Hall

Old Forge - Town of Webb Tourist Information Center

Marshall Street Cam - Syracuse

RIT - Rochester

Ski Cam - Labrador Mountain, Truxton

Syracuse University

Tompkins Cortland Community College - Dryden

Wineries

New York Uncorked

- By Toby Checchini, New York Times, T Syle Magazine: Travel, September 24, 2006. "The Finger Lakes in western New York State has always seemed to me the most exciting and legitimate wine region in the East. Ethereally gorgeous, magnificently unspoiled, bursting with idiosyncratic wines and just a five hour drive from New York City, it should be the golden destination for East Coast wine lovers. And yet it remains largely ignored by tourists and oeno-freaks alike."

Guide to the Eastern Wine and Grape Miscellany, 1850-20-- - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Anthony Road Wine Company - Penn Yan

Bully Hill Vineyards - Hammondsport

Cayuga Wine Trail - Among their Events is the Wine & Herb Festival

Chateau Lafayette Reneau - Hector. They have an Inn. The Late Harvest Riesling is recommended.

Earle Estates Meadery - Locke

Finger Lakes Wine Guild

Fox Run Vineyards - Penn Yan

GCP Discount Liquors & Wines - Horseheads. "Largest selection of wines, spirits and champagne in the Southern Tier."

Glenora Wine Cellars - Dundee

Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards and Winery - Hector

Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard - Dundee. Outstanding Rieslings and Gewürztraminers

Heron Hill Winery - Hammondsport. Good Rieslings.

Hosmer Winery - Ovid

Keuka Lake Wine Trail

King Ferry Winery & Treleaven Wines

Knapp Vineyards

Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars - Hammondsport

Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars - Lodi

New York Wine and Grape Foundation - With information on the Finger Lakes Region

Northside Wine & Spirit - Ithaca. "Ranked among America's Top 10 Leading Wine & Spirits Retailers."

Prejean Winery - Penn Yan

Quality Transportation Service - Rochester sedan and wine tour service

Red Newt Cellars - Hector. Good Cabernet Franc. Has a Bistro and an Art Gallery.

Seneca Lake Wine Trail - Seneca Lake Winery Association

Shalestone Vineyards - Lodi

Sheldrake Point Vineyard & Café - Ovid

Silver Thread Vineyard - Lodi

Standing Stone Vineyards - Hector.

Vintage New York - New York City store sells wines from Long Island, the Hudson Valley and the Finger Lakes

Wine Tour of the Finger Lakes - Grady Wells. Companion Web site to his book of the same name.

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