It took me a while to understand what the museum’s name meant. It’s both a museum on the history of Rochester and a science museum. The nature exhibits are quite impressive with everything from taxidermy penguins to a full skeleton of a mammoth woolly mammoth. The hands-on science exhibits are Read more…
The University of Rochester has that stereotypical private university campus layout. Long grassy squares surrounded by dark brick buildings hugged by vines. Greek fraternities perpendicular to the main corridor. Neat rows of student housing arranged around pathways that radiate from a central plaza. The university’s most iconic building is the Read more…
Susan B. Anthony was a champion for women’s rights in America. When she was a child, her Quaker parents wanted to send her to school, but when the teacher refused to teach girls long division, her family hired a private tutor to teach her and other girls. She grew up Read more…
Rochester is home to Eastman Kodak and the Xerox corporation, the founders of which funded the University of Rochester in the early nineteenth century. Susan B. Anthony, a suffragette who lived before the suffragette movement existed, fought for women’s vote and registered to vote in Rochester. Notable museums in Rochester Read more…
Bedford Falls from the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life was partially filmed in Seneca Falls, NY. In 1917, a man jumped from the bridge and saved a young girl from drowning in the canal at the risk of his own life. This heroic act inspired the movie where George Read more…
Canada’s largest tech festival is back in Toronto in 2022 after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Speakers from online gaming, fintech, AR/VR, and creative industries from around the world congregated at three venues along the front of Lake Ontario to network and learn more about the work of emerging tech enterprises. The Read more…
I’ve been to several canal museums and all of them are adjacent to a canal, except this one. The Syracuse section of the canal was filled up, it used to run through the middle of the city. But high demand meant that it had to be widened and that was Read more…
There’s no reason to go to Syracuse. Even the border guard made a face when I told him I was visiting Syracuse for fun. I only went because it was on the way to Seneca Falls to meet the cast of It’s a Wonderful Life. I suppose it’s a little Read more…
Finished. Finished with my master’s. When I started this website, I was merely an undergraduate student trying to organize all his experiences into a logical medium. I wanted to be able to share what I learned, to internalize travel experiences, and do enough research to appreciate the history of a Read more…
Dresden’s funicular railway is one of the few notable sites that survived the bombings of WWII. Its two carriages, original from when the railway opened in 1895, were hidden in a tunnelled section and spared from destruction. I also wanted to ride on the Schwebebahn, a hanging railway nearby, but Read more…