Utica loses part of its past when fire damages a building on Hotel Street where city records and maps are stored. The Common Council also meets there. The fire convinces many Uticans that the city ...

Ted Geoghegan’s swift, slicing thriller Mohawk makes a vigorous case for horror as perhaps the most fitting film genre to capture some truths of American history. Rather than a puffed-up prestige ...

Dozens of stuffed animals, hundreds of stuffed and live birds and nearly 30 life-sized wax figures of famous people are attracting hundreds of Uticans each week to the village's first large museum. It ...

Readers sometimes inquire about books on Mohawk Valley history. What follows is a list of sources I have found useful. Your suggestions are welcome. W. Max Reid, an Amsterdam undertaker and business ...

A large, handsome horse is pulling a buggy across Genesee Street near Bleecker Street in Utica when it suddenly turns and heads for a drinking fountain for animals at nearby Franklin Square. The ...

For almost a hundred years each state has celebrated Black History Month during February. Rome NAACP Branch President Jacqueline Nelson calls it, “a time to honor African Americans who have shaped our ...

Most of Mohawk Park's 2,800 acres looks a lot like it did in the late 1920s, when it became a Tulsa park. Amy Marcoux, staff naturalist at Oxley Nature Center, has been researching the history of the ...