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In search of the missing 19 granite time...

At least 17 recipients of the Nobel Peac...

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Ike’s secret visit to Rochester

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May Days past in Rochester

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CARUSO SINGS TONIGHT !

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Herman Melville in Rochester, 1840, 1846...

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Rod and Me

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“Four Stemmed Glasses”

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Another Staged Thanksgiving

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The Fandango and the Rochester Mirage

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“The greatest American of the nine...

The President who owned Rochester

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Leon and “Red Emma”

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Millard Who?

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FDR in Rochester three days before he wo...

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater...

48 years ago when Rochester saw its firs...

Saying goodbye to the “Downtown: T...

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Revisiting Rochester black history

Baseball was better 45 years ago

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Gates-Chili’s Ernest Jackson one o...

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Historic Lockport: Part of One of the Wo...

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Rochester’s “Miss Television...

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A 1913 headline many would like to see in 2021
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by [email protected] | Sep 2, 2020 | History | 0 |
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