Maggie, a 40-year-old mom, arrived home to see her elderly father, Ed, out on the cement patio in a chair, reading the newspaper on the...

It’s the end of World War I. The skies, once filled with the roar of engines and the courage of young pilots, are now eerily quiet. The...

I was a dirty young boy. No, I wasn’t peeping into women’s windows as they changed; I was a rural kid (damn it) living on the outskirts...

I’m sitting alone at a booth at Phillips Diner . I’m right by the front window. This vantage point lets me see everything - people coming...

I’m seventeen in 1980; it’s too late at night for me to be up - it’s a school night - and my grades would suggest more sleep would help....

Every child must learn certain things in this world if they are to navigate it and not risk their lives - don’t touch hot stoves, look...

It’s September 16th, 1928, the place is the ‘burg. Bert Geddes, of Pine St, is stunned to learn that part of an aircraft, the flywheel,...

I’m 14, and standing on the curb of a street; there are many others with me. There is loud music playing. Suddenly, a very large spider,...

It’s a wonder we ‘70s kids weren’t a bunch of juvenile, obese, toothless diabetics, with the diet we consumed; I hope it wasn’t just me....

“We’re losing him!” cried the nurse. “I’m going to have to reroute the artery around the heart!” the doctor shot back. “Quick, I need...

I hadn't seen any documentation in the History of Ogdensburg Facebook group regarding the history of Ogdensburg street names...

By rights, I should be dead; dead, or at least severely injured. Why? Because I was a teen boy growing up in the 1970s in a little town...

Well, my recent column on 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 in the ‘burg seemed to bring back a lot of good memories for people, so let’s try it this...

It was the worst attack on American soil ever, until the tragedy of 9/11. Some 2,350 people died; 1,178 more were injured. Nine ships of...

Most of us dream every night, though we remember very little of it - that is unless the dream is particularly important or disturbing....

It’s a warm summer night in June in the ‘burg; it’s the kind of night you only get a handful of times a year, when you are comfortable...

He knew both of the pistols worked perfectly; Richard had tested them. He wanted to make sure he had a backup, just in case, when he...

I’m sure you paid enough attention in your studies in grade school to recall how America, in 1776, declared her independence from the...

She’s not much to look at; her features have long since been weathered by time. She’s old, and no one bothers with her much anymore -...

The insurance company that built her wanted her to be named after Ed, the chairman of the board, but Ed wasn’t comfortable with the idea;...