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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.

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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

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:

Tompkins County

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:

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

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.

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

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.

Lilac Festival - Highland Park, Rochester.

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.

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)

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 � 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.

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.

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 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.

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. x

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

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,

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.