Looking for possible reasons why the Diamond Sportsmen Club was renamed from the Barney Pond Club I stumbled across the story of Eddie & Jack “Legs” Diamond. It probably has no correlation with the Diamond Sportsmen club but it’s an interesting story from the Adirondacks so I thought I’d share it.
Apparently Saranac [...]
I found the following Travel Journal in a bag of my old stuff given to me by my mother. It’s from my from my Trip to Europe with school in 1998.
I’ve provided it below, unedited And awesome. I’ve left it mostly intact and punctuation preserved for your enjoyment. Go ahead and laugh, I did.
4/16/1998
Books [...]
Our experience with insurance companies of all kinds is horrible. We’ve had the absolute worst luck although We’ve never really written about it here in detail before. Our car insurance has been canceled several times (for reasons beyond our control) and our house insurance is expensive because of a few punk kids in [...]
We live in an old duplex built before the turn of the LAST century. As a result, we find some interesting things sometimes. A recent construction project which involved tearing out our kitchen ceiling resulted in some very cool finds.
What we found:
A sheet of paper describing Raymond’s Pectoral Plaster and its’ uses
A Postcard from [...]
I love local history. I work in an old company in an old building with a lot of history in an old City. Recently they sent out some information about the different stages the area the building is in has gone through along with pictures from the Rochester Public Library and the Rochester City Hall [...]
View from a window at Le Gras – 1826
We’ve come a long way in the world of photography. The photo above is the first known permanent photograph.
The photo was captured by a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of [...]
