Does the name Mercator mean anything to you? It should if you are between the ages of 60 - 90. They were found in all classrooms of that era – third or fourth grade through high school. They are the selection of maps that every classroom had. The teacher had an array of maps with the ...

The third installment teaches us a lesson formulated in a bygone era for many if not, historically, all cultures past and present. Women are the true keepers of the flame. What we understand to be mixed gender culture and religions, men were the hunters. Someone had to stay home to be the ...

There is much chatter about military service by presidential candidates, most of it to deflect from Democrat VP Candidate Walz’s false claims of rank and position in the Guard. But more distressingly, Walz’s claims reveal him to be a phony and a narcissist. No real leader would abandon ...

Are New York state voters waking up to the looming disaster caused by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) of 2019, which eliminated nuclear and fossil fuel based electricity by 2040? Not yet, apparently. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who killed nuclear power in New ...

The other day, on a beautiful morning, a friend and I took a boat ride under the Chautauqua Lake Bridge. There was a lot to see. A bridge is a bit like an iceberg in that there is much more of it below the road surface than above it. That means that much of the construction work is also more ...

CHAUTAUQUA—“Wine, Women, and Dementia” is an unusually catchy title for a film and an organization with an important mission. But first a word about those behind the film from Wine, Women, and Dementia’s website. Producer Beth Rigazio has been a respite caregiver for a friend’s ...