Jets Advance to A.F.C. Title Game
- by Greg Bishop, New York Times, January 17, 2010. "When it ended, the Jets gathered in the most jubilant of locker rooms. They talked about training camp, back in Cortland, N.Y., how everything started there."
Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom
- by Jad Mouawad and Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 7 December 2009. "According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which is going through a public review of its new rules on hydraulic fracturing, gas companies use at least 260 types of chemicals, many of them toxic, like benzene. These chemicals tend to remain in the ground once the fracturing has been completed, raising fears about long-term contamination." See also Attorney General Cuomo Announces Agreement With Fortuna Energy Allowing N.Y. Landowners to Negotiate New Natural Gas Leases, Media Center, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, 24 November 2009. "Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that his office has reached an agreement with Fortuna Energy, Inc. (Fortuna) that will allow customers who were misled and ended up extending their natural gas leases with the company to renegotiate their terms. The settlement also stops Fortuna from employing industry-prevalent misleading and deceptive tactics to secure leases from New York landowners."
- 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.
- 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."
- 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."
- "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.
- "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.
- 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."
- Dryden Mutual Insurance Company exhibition of photographs by Verne Morton (1868-1945) of Groton, New York. Images include:
Articles
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- Pulse of the Planet, February 12, 2009. The Tully Ice Harvest Festival is held annually in February. See also: