Rochester, NY is no stranger to water. The Genesee River starts as a drip somewhere in Pennsylvania and flows north through New York’s southern tier, past Geneseo and Avon (both mentioned in Wixumlee Is My Salvataion). The narrow river drops down three waterfalls stuck smack in the middle of downtown Rochester (also mentioned in the [...]

Former Western New York resident Georgia Ann Mullen will read from books in her Canal Tales Series Sunday, Sept. 19 at the World Canals Conference in Rochester, NY.
Georgia’s readings from A Shocking & Unnatural Incident and Wixumlee Is My Salvation will highlight how canals fit into her historical novels. Among the sites mentioned in [...]

Can you imagine not owning a book? Not even one book?
Hard as it is to believe, millions of children in the United States cannot call even one book their own. While a middle-class child has approximately 13 books, there’s only one book floating around a low-income neighborhood of 300 children.
To correct this inadequacy, First [...]

“Women dressed to suit what men were interested in at the time,” historian Rebecca Morrison-Peck said recently in The Columbian, a Vancouver, Wash., newspaper. From her descriptions—and a quick tour of women’s clothing history—it seems men have been interested mostly in big butts.
Morrison-Peck’s comment came during her recent talk on the “Politics of Underwear” at [...]