Many know Mount Hope as the final resting place for notable Rochesterians like Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and others. But countless other interesting facts and legends surround the burial grounds.
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
A reminder of a time when rock ‘n’ roll was nothing more than a raw, primal wail, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion came back in 2012 with “Meat and Bone,” the band’s first album in eight years. Formed in 1991 in New York City out of the ashes of Pussy Galore, The Blues Explosion — […]
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ART REVIEW: “Our Cryptozoological Expedition into ‘The Elusive'”
Though we think we’re getting a firmer handle on this world, you could argue that as human beings increasingly set themselves as separate from other species, both in mind an in manner of living, our understanding of the creatures that share this planet has grown shakier and shakier. Some people study these untamed objects of […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’08: College legends
BY JESSICA BAKEMAN The ghosts of SUNY Brockport In 1888, Edward B. Rowley fell through a wooden plank placed over a cistern containing almost eight feet of water in the Brockport Normal School — a building on the spot where Brockport’s Hartwell Hall now stands. The BrockportRepublic, the local newspaper at the time, reported that […]
