by Stephen Lewandowski – The Finger Lakes region was colonized by successive waves of immigrants, beginning with New Englanders moving...
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Village Gardener: For Natalie Northrup, the future is now!
by Georgeanne Vyverberg – Last week the DEC commissioner Basil Seggos announced with a proclamation, that May 6-12 would be Compost...

Bee Lines: Notes on foraging and hive manipulations
by Sam Hall – Last Thursday I thought I heard an early swarm when I got near the Apricot tree in the bee yard. Instead it was the bees...

Family of Moses Allen and Chloe Ward: Part one of the Early History of Allens Hill
by Joy Lewis – Moses Allen (1739-c. 1801) and his wife Chloe Ward (1744-c. 1804) were the parents of eight children. In 1796 many of...

Honest beer at Battle Street Brewery
by D.E. Bentley – Train station restoration expands Livingston “Libation Loop” Rail transportation has always fascinated me. I...

Professional women on wheels
What has well oiled wheels, advanced degrees, alter identities and whirls in a circle like a tornado? Assault City Roller Derby,...

Howard Hanna Robert Gleason
This online issue of Owl Light News is brought to you courtesy of Robert Gleason of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

Finger Lakes Sound: Music as language
by Ben Haravitch – “A language works best when we have something interesting to say.” – Victor Wooten In our world music is a...

Notes toward a Finger Lakes Cuisine: Beyond sustenance with succotash
by Stephen Lewendowski – A regional cuisine for the Finger Lakes is necessarily grounded in this deep agricultural and ethnobotanical...

Conscious Crow: The Collective Perspective
As much as we think and believe our lives to be completely separate from one another, we are in reality mutually collaborating within an...