Nationalism and its contradictions
In Championing Nationalism Dishonors American Soldiers (later reprinted in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a Guest Essay), George Cassidy Payne examines some of the sordid history of
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Veterans Day in Brighton
My favorite spot in Brighton is a bench facing the American flag and the looming stainless steel American Eagle in the Veteran’s Memorial in Buckland Park where you can see wild turkey, deer,
[ Read More ]Writing as a Trojan Horse: Why I Agreed to Publish in the Washington Times
— George Cassidy Payne I did something this weekend that would have been unthinkable in my previous life as a radical left wing social justice activist. I allowed for one of my essays to
[ Read More ]When all was quiet on the western front on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918.
This morning my friend Dean and I visited the World War I veterans’ plot in Mt. Hope Cemetery to honor the 100th anniversary of the 11 a.m., November 11th, 1918 armistice ending hostilities
[ Read More ]Frederick Douglass’ Alexander Street home commemorated; Seward Seminary marker still missing.
Last week, Rochester celebrated an overdue event. As reported by WHAM13, Historic marker commemorates Frederick Douglass’ house in Rochester (11/05/18), a new plaque on the former site of
[ Read More ]Third parties at the Brookside polling place (25th Congressional District)
Third party candidates and their supporters are quixotic yet admirable. If the United States was a parliamentary democracy as predominates in Europe, third parties would have more political
[ Read More ]History Isn’t Always Carved in Stone. Even when it is.
— Michael J. Nighan A recent Talker article on the subject of nationalism included a photograph of a stone from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park which references November 11,
[ Read More ]Despite the lifting of the curse, Peterman and the Jill-less Bills drop the ball.
For several years, we have publicized the unfortunate parting of ways between the Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Jills, first in ESPN’s Four Falls of Buffalo and Vivid memories of the four
[ Read More ]Thumbs up for GeVa’s “Thurgood”
In the last three and a half years, three plays at GeVa have been based on the lives of historically prominent African-Americans: Mountaintop (2015), Martin Luther King Jr., The Agitators
[ Read More ]The 1981 baseball strike comes to Rochester. When Dave Winfield made 1.3 million a year!
Now that that the short but tense World Series is over, I miss baseball. During our lull, we can look back to a time when baseball was especially missed: the 48 day work stoppage in summer 1981.
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