4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (901+ words) The Desert of Maine spreads across 20 acres of pale sand outside Freeport, and 2026 marks a century since the site first took visitors. The sand itself is glacial silt, dropped when the ice sheet withdrew. What uncovered it was farming. The…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (600+ words) Rhinebeck also opens a window onto 19th century living at the Wilderstein Historic Site, a Queen Anne-style country house on the Hudson River once home to Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a cousin and personal confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Its interiors date…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1049+ words) WorldAtlas Every upstate New Yorker knows the lake clean enough that Syracuse pipes its drinking water straight from it, and Skaneateles, the village at the top of that lake, is the one you already have a story about. Maybe it…...