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Washington Irving Crosses the Genesee
[View of Rochester’s Market Bridge. Images provided by Michael Nighan] by Michael J. Nighan...
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Remembering Armistice Day, 11/11/1918, at the Brighton Memorial Library and Buckland Park
[11/9/21 Brighton Memorial Library. (left) David Kramer with the 11/11/1918 edition of the...
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Happy 80th birthday, Spanish-American War Eagle, even if your wars were not just.
[Photo: Jim Barclay. Commissioned and owned by David Kramer] Tuesday the 26th marks the 80th...
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Will the world end on Friday? Only Audrey knows, and she’s not telling.
[Cobb’s Hill, October 16th, 2021, Audrey Boyce with the Magic 8 Ball. Photo: a Millerite] On...
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Remembering 9/11 at Monroe Community College, Highland Park and the War Memorial
[9/11/21 American flag at the Twentieth Annual Remembrance Ceremony at the Brighton campus of...
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Hawthorne and the Pandemic Visit the Instantaneous City
[Hawthorne portrait by Henry Inman (1835); Peabody Essex Museum. Except where indicated, all...
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Now is the time to rename the Major Charles Carroll Plaza the Captain Charles Price Plaza
[View of the Major Charles Carroll Plaza from the west side of the Genesee River. Photo: David...
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Mrs. Stowe Gets Derailed in Rochester
[Images provided by Michael Nighan. His Great Grandmother’s copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin]...
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The Communist Party of China at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park
[7/2/21 The Timeline at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester. Photos by David Kramer...
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Patriotism, Propaganda and Produce: Moving Pictures Hit Rochester, and Rochester Hits Back!
[Mt. Hope Cemetery, 6/22/21. Trophy Cannon presented to Monroe County by Hon. O.F. Williams....
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30 years ago today, Vice President Dan Quayle visited and eleven other sitting VP’s who came to Rochester
[“Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” — the chastising zinger made by...
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Democrat and Chronicle prints “Pioneer for Black police officers guarded King one night in 1958” and much more on Captain Charles Price (1923 – 2021)
[Martin Luther King Jr. (seated center) during his January 8th, 1958 visit to Rochester. Dr....
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The First Big Name – and (Almost) Third President – Comes to Rochester….Probably
[On Broadway, Daniel Breaker shines as Alexander Hamilton’s greatest rival, Aaron Burr. JOAN...
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A Small Flag at the Bottom of a Trunk and Confederate soldiers buried in Batavia, Pittsford and Spencerport
[CSA War Veteran Marker placed next to grave of John H. Thurmon (1843 – 1919) in Pittsford...
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The Small Flag at the Bottom of the Trunk
[A 9-inch by 6-inch replica of the Confederate national flag (not the battle flag), with two...
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Long lost football team recalled by its star lineman
[Lineman and linebacker Lucian “Ace” Waddell, Haverford College ’62, missed the...
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Introductions
[Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1981. Caption: Dave Kramer of Brighton concentrates on his next...
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Rachel’s Rebel Roots
RAB with FDR in Washington Square Park 6/16/16 I went to Washington Square Park to hear why Rachel...
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Che of The Town: Interviews (1-107)
You first met Che in Rochester works for actor Che Holloway, an impromptu interview and amble...
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The Presidential Visits Series in its entirety: James Monroe to Joseph Biden
Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 32 have stopped in Rochester...
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Site says Brighton is best place to live in New York
Twelve Corners Memorial Park, Brighton, NY 4/5/18 [Photo: David Kramer] Recently, the Rochester...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1995 “Billy Pilgrim” pilgrimage to the Mt. Hope grave of Edward R. Crone Jr, Brighton High School ’41
Provided by Rosemary Lloyd. Signed copy of the 25th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five by...
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“Mr. Crane’s Vivid Story:” New and Improved
The Wells-Brown Room, Rush Rhees library, the University of Rochester. Just SOME of Crane’s books...
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Why I voted for Adam Bello and a trip down Talker political memory lane, 2015 – 2021
Adam Bello at the 2019 Labor Day Parade. [Photo: David Kramer] SEE ALL PHOTOS 2015 – 2021...
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Dr. Joseph Roby could not save Lenore Engel, 11, victim of the 1918 pandemic buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery
Growing up on 39 Wilkins Street near Joseph Avenue in a German, possibly Jewish, family, Lenore...
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When Washington Square Park felt like Tiananmen Square
The bus stop on Court Street [Photo: David Kramer, 9/4/20] Last Friday, September the 4th, I heard...
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In search of the missing 19 granite timepieces at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1973 – September 11th, 2001
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park. The area that contained the missing last 19 granite...
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Bill Pruitt celebrates Talker’s sixth birthday with “Human News”
[Lux Lounge at 666 South Avenue, Photo: David Kramer, 9/20/21, see see Impromptu poetry slam at...
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