It Happened Here --Cold Temps. and Snowbanks

I had hoped to have a whole new stock of  signs and stories when the winter weather broke but since in many areas where signs are found, the snowbanks are 3 and 4 feet deep and the roads are barely more than 10 feet wide it has been difficult and hazardous to get out to photograph them. So there is no post for this week.

But since you are already here--Perhaps you might want to catch up on some posts you might have missed. The easiest way to find them is by clicking on the year and the month in the menu on the right.

   Date                          Title                                                                Topics

2/3/ 13   A Blog about NY State Historical markers      

2/10/13  A Quiz for Presidents' Week
2/17/13  Answers to the Presidents' Week Quiz
2/24/13  Citizen Genet                                                    "Citizen"  Jean  Genet
3/3/ 13   Caution Fragile Signs                                        Trials and Tribulations of NYSHMs
3/10/13  A Tale of Two Railroads  Part I                        Albany Schenectady RR
3/17/13  A Tale of Two Railroads  Part II                       Catskill and Canojoharie RR
3/24/13  Adam Helmer's Run                                          A. Helmer, militia scout, Rev. War
3/31/13  In Precarious Positions Part I                            Charles Nalle, Harriet Tubman, slavery
4/7/13    In Precarious Positions Part II                           Solomon Northrup, slavery
4/14/13  Grandma Moses                                                 Grandma Moses
4/21/13  A Noble Train of Artillery                                 Rev War, Guns for Boston, Henry Knox
4/28/13  The Man who Measured (+Saved) the Mts.      Verplanck Colvin
5/ 5/ 13  The Man who Measured.... Part II                     Verplanck Colvin
5/12/13  New York's Wooden Roads                                Plank Roads
5/19/13  Yankee Doodle Came to Grenen Bos                 Yankee Doodle, Fort Crailo
5/26/13  The "Battle" of Clarksville                                 Anti-Rent Wars  part I
6/ 2/13   Knox: The Pillbox Capital                                  wooden pillboxes, patent medicine
6/ 9/13   The Oil Driller                                                     Edwin Drake, first oil well
6/16/13  The Naples Tree                                                   Paleontology,  D. Dana Luther
6/23/13  The "Lily"                                                           Amelia Bloomer, women's rights
6/30/13  The Tough,Wiley Scotsman+his Diligent Vrouw   Robt. + Alida Livingston,  patroons
7/  8/13   Those Remarkable Schoolcrafts                         Henry Rowe Schoolcraft + family
7/15/13   The Mex.War: So Long Ago, So Far Away        John A. Quitman, Wm. J. Worth
7/22/13   Winifred Goldring, paleontologist                      paleontology, Gilboa Forests, W.G.
7/29/13   "TheTavern Lamps are Burning"                        taverns and democratic government
8/  5/13   New York's Revolutionary Militias                    Rev War, militias, anti-Tory activities
8/12/13   The Christian Sisters in Canaan and the
                 Greenwich Vill. Poet of Austerlitz                    Warner Sisters, Edna St.Vincent Milay
8/19/13   The Town that Made a Name for Itself               Red Rock, Columbia County
8/26/13   Pioneers and Potash                                            Potash in frontier economies
9/  3/13   The Grand Old Man of Nature                            John Burroughs
9/  9/13   Pay as you Go                                                     Turnpikes
9/17/13   John Brown's Body Lies a-mouldering...            abolition, John Brown in New York
9/22/13   "Incorrigible"                                                       Thoreau, Emerson
10/1/13   The Physician who Practiced Sedition                Anti Rent Wars part II, Smith Broughton
10/8/13   The Electric State (Part I)                                    Jos. Henry, Allen Penfield, electromag.
10/14/13   From Alps to Berne to Andes                           Anti-Rent War part III, Osman Steele
10/21/13   A Bug in the Works (no post)
10/23/13   The Ghost of Duncan Campbell                       D.Campbell, Fr +IndianWar, Ft. Ti.
11/  3/13   The Lingering Death of the Leaseholds            Anti Rent Wars part IV
11/12/13   The Captivity Narratives (Part I )                      Fr. + Indian Wars, Rogers' Rangers
11/19/13   The "Tanlords" of the Catskills                         Leather tanning industry
11/26/13   The Battles on Snowshoes                                 Fr. + Indian Wars, Rogers' Rangers
12/  3/13   The Daredevil from Hammondsport                 Glenn Curtiss, aviation history
12/10/13   Drawn to Sea                                                     Herman Melville
12/17/13   The Captivity Narratives (Part II)                     Josiah Priest
12/24/13   Big Bells, Little Bells (Part I)                           Meneeley Bell Foundry, Troy foundries
12/31/13   Big Bells, Little Bells (Part II)                          Sleigh bells, S. Cairo
   1/ 7/14   Uncle Dan's Town                                             Alb. Dem. Machine, Dan O'Connell
  1/16/14   New World Dutch Barns                                   Dutch Barns, Jan Wemp
  1/21/14   The Forgotten Advocate: Jesse Torrey              public libraries, slavery, Jesse Torrey
  1/30/14    First Contacts                                                    Henry Hudson
  2/  5/14    King of the (Indian) Traders                             G. Croghan, Traders, Land Speculators
  2/11/14    Marker for a Mastodon                                       Cohoes Mast., James Hall, paleontology
  2/18/14    The Albany Regency                                         Albany Regency, Martin Van Buren
  2/25/14    Two Tory Families                                             Rev. War, Tories
  3/  3/14    The Van Ness Murder + Further Thoughts         Rev. War, Tories
  3/11/13     Cold Temps. and Snowbanks                            An Index to Date

  Coming Next Week: The Radical Doctor Who Named a State!