Eagle Down by John Frazier
Donnie Coffin was somewhat of an enigma. Those who remember him recall him as an easygoing guy, but not many people have vivid memories of him.
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This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 17
The Herkimer Democrat, January 17, 1894, Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York
Little Falls Philanthropy by Louis W. Baum
What did wealthy people do with their money? Some spent lavishly on themselves and their families caring little for their fellow man; others were philanthropic. Over the years, the citizens of Little Falls have greatly benefited in many different ways from the philanthropy of several of its leading residents who lived here in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Bygone Little Falls winters of skiing and sledding by Jeffrey Gressler
Decades before there was a Pine Ridge ski center in Salisbury or a Shu-maker Mountain ski area outside Little Falls, generations of Little Falls winter sports enthusiasts skied and sledded down the vertical drops that typify our steep, narrow Mohawk Valley topography. Others enjoyed skating on the frozen canal and ice rinks. Times were different in the age before television and computers provided time diversions and snowmobiles proved to be so popular.
US submarine chasers stop in Little Falls
From the Cooney Archives: On December 17, 1917, A good number of recently built US submarine chasers, moving down the canal, stopped in Little Falls on their way to New York City.
First train passes over the railroad to Dolgeville
On December 14, 1892, the first train passed over the railroad to Dolgeville, and there were many excursions to High Falls Park the following summer.
1882: The Year of Pestilence, Death and Solutions in Little Falls
The summer of 1882 was a bad time to be an inhabitant of Little Falls as sickness and death raged throughout the village.
Broomsticks and Ballots by Ray Lenarcic
I love Halloween. Always have. My earliest remembrance is dressing up in a cowboy outfit complete with flannel shirt, neckerchief, vest, chaps and the piece de resistance, a pearl-handled, silver Lone Ranger cap pistol.
Morgan’s Dairy by Bart Carrig
“Around the back and up the stairs…” That’s how our mornings began. The first time I heard that instruction, from my Uncle Morgan Carrig, June 1964.
Upon Turning 80 by Ray Lenarcic
Anyone who knows me would acknowledge that there’s no way I could answer any question in a word. Well, surprise, surprise naysayers-I can.