by George Cassidy Payne This month the Dryden Theatre is screening Inherit the Wind. Based on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925, the film is one of Stanley Kramer’s masterpieces. In the words of
[ Read More ]Photography and text by George Cassidy Payne Rochester is 3,238 miles away from Glasgow. If that seems too far a distance to travel for a genuine taste of Scotland, try 108 miles east to the
[ Read More ]Sometimes historical research is like restoring an old painting. We see the general picture while discovering fascinating details as we uncover its obscured parts. My story is about filling
[ Read More ]Photography and text by George Cassidy Payne While waiting for the elevator inside the Legacy Tower (formerly the Bausch and Lomb Building), I took a few moments to admire Leonard Urso’s
[ Read More ]As seen in The Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Donald Trump, Michael J. Nighan has reported on many Rochester presidential visits from James Monroe to William Howard
[ Read More ]In the summer of 1840, a twenty one year old Herman Melville quit his teaching post in Greenbush, New York after one term because he had not been paid. Idle, Melville and his friend James Murdock
[ Read More ]As part of George Cassidy Payne’s ongoing literary tour of New York — including Mark Twain in Elmira, Rod Sterling in Binghamton, Michael Herr in Delhi, John Burroughs in Roxbury
[ Read More ]Photography and text by George Cassidy Payne While getting lost trying to find the Herman Melville house in Troy, NY, my father and I stumbled upon a cemetery that I had read about but had no
[ Read More ]This Sunday, in a Democrat and Chronicle Guest Essay, “All of us should embrace Black History Month,” David Cay Johnston (a Talker subscriber) describes some of the virulent racial
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