Aug 13 2026
August 2026 Before motor vehicles and paved highways made transportation of people and goods easier, railways were the fastest and most efficient method of land transportation. Besides the transportation of people and goods, they helped settle western Canada and unite the country from coast to coast. As other transportation options became viable, railroads merged, were …
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Jul 31 2026
July 2026 Note: This article was originally in Part 1 of my Borscht Belt series profiling multiple former hotels and bungalow colonies, first published in November 2018. As I have photographed the Kutsher’s more than most other hotels in the borscht Belt over the past 6 years, I decided to make this entry a stand alone. …
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Jul 27 2026
July 2026 A lonely log cabin sits on the southeast corner of Huronia Road and Lockhart Street in the southern Ontario city of Barrie, on the edge of a woodlot. For over 90 years, it has stood at this corner, the north part of Lot 11, Concession 10, in what was once a part of …
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Jul 27 2026
July 2026 Note: This is Chapter 4 in my Borscht Belt series. Links to the other Borscht Belt articles are at the bottom of this article. If you don’t find a write-up on a specific hotel or bungalow colony in this chapter, either they are profiled in the other chapters or I haven’t heard of …
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Jul 25 2026
July 2026 Before the motor vehicles and major highway systems, the railway was the fastest and most efficient way to transport people and goods across the country. In addition to the national railways, like Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, there were many smaller regional railways that criss-crossed the provinces and territories, connecting towns and villages …
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Jul 21 2026
July 2026 The Story Garden in Binghamton, New York, is an interactive outdoor playscape and learning area, providing non-stop fun for a wide range of ages. Unlike most playgrounds, the Story Garden provides an interesting way for children to exercise their creative minds, as well as their bodies. The Story Garden was opened in June …
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Jul 16 2026
July 2026 Ghost towns are “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. There are many such former towns and villages that no longer exist because the population moved away and the buildings were either demolished, destroyed by natural …
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Jul 12 2026
July 2026 The George F. Johnson Recreation Park Carousel, found in Binghamton, New York, is one of six historic wooden carousels found in the city known as the “Carousel Capital of the World.” It was the creation of the park’s namesake, George F. Johnson, a Binghamton native and businessman, who donated the eighteen acre property …
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Jul 01 2026
July 2026 The summer of 2026 will be another busy year for Marisa Scheinfeld, a Brooklyn, NY-born photographer and author who is heading up a project to honour and memorialize what was once known as America’s Jewish Vacationland, colloquially known as the Borscht Belt. An enthusiastic crowd gathered in a parkette, locally referred to as …
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Jun 26 2026
June 2026 Thousands of police officers marched along Dixon Road to the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke in remembrance of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, an 18-year veteran of the Toronto Police Service, was fatally shot 11 June while executing a search warrant. Another week, another police funeral. It’s been a rough couple of months for the …
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