This weekend (really, an extended weekend) was a mixture of new and old with an emphasis on fall traditions. We saw new trends on the runways of Fashion Week of Rochester as well as heard age-old tales of past lives during a Torch Light Tour in Mount Hope Cemetery. On Friday night, we stopped in […]
Mt. Hope Cemetery
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Wooly bully
The hemlock wooly adelgid is a tiny invasive pest, similar to aphids, that preys on native and ornamental hemlock trees. The bugs kill the trees needle by needle and limb by limb; an unaddressed infestation can mean a slow death. This summer, a crew from the state Department of Environmental Conservation is surveying the state […]
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The dead are ever with us
Most of the time, the living leave the dead alone. We might take a walk in a beautiful cemetery such as Mt. Hope. Or we might wave a little flag on Memorial Day. Elvis imitators resurrect The King for fun and profit. At a Spiritualist church you might find the dead speaking through a glassy […]
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News briefs 8.14.02
Happiness was a warm gun The arms race is not a modern phenomenon. Long before the Cold War, cave dwellers stockpiled rocks to use as weapons. And for one brief moment between the rocks and the missiles, Rochester made a contribution to the history of weaponry. In 1861, a dentist named Josephus Requa invented […]
