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The Hanford Mills Museum near Oneonta presents its annual Ice Harvest Festival on Saturday, February 3 from 10am to 3pm. Executive Director Liz Callahan joins us to explain the process of harvesting ice, how it is stored, the treat that is the ultimate reward in July for the ice harvest in February.

The Franklin Stage Company welcomes actress Erin Layton in her play 'Magdalen' about the Magdalen Laundries of Ireland. She and director/collaborator…

The Hanford Mills Museum celebrates Independence Day with demonstrations, a fishing contest, frog-jumping, and ice cream made by a steam-powered churn…

Cinemapolis in Ithaca presents the documentary'Angkor Awakens'for a week long run. We hear from the film's producer, Deborah Hoard about the extensive…

Chords of Memory is a web series from WSKG that combines historic photographs with local musical talent. In each episode, a local artist provides the…

In 1787, the first settlers arrived to form a new Tompkins County community named for English poet John Dryden. Dryden, New York was established on land…

In 1968, Elliot Handler, the co-founder of Mattel, devised a plan to compete with the popular Matchbox model car line from the British company Lesney…

Toy fire engines first became popular with young children in the 1880s. Typically made from cast iron and tinplate, these early toy fire wagons were…

Metal lunch pails became popular among blue-collar workers at the end of the 19th century. The first metal lunch boxes for children were made in the 1920s…

While mechanical automata had existed since ancient Greece, the first mass-produced mechanical toy robots were built in Japan following World War II.…