I have heard many stories over the past few months while interviewing nonagenarians. Most have told about attending a one-room schoolhouse, World War II, gardening and canning. Although Ruth I. Hammond mentioned all of those, her story, like the others, is unique with several amusing ...
CHAUTAUQUA — This week’s 1045 a.m. speakers in the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater are listed here: COREY JASKOLSKI CONSERVATIONIST, ENGINEER MONDAY, JULY 8, 10:45 A.M., Corey Jaskolski is an inventor, engineer, National Geographic Fellow, photographer, AR and VR developer, and an explorer who specializes in creating technologies for some of the most challenging environments on Earth. Early in his career, he founded Hydro Technologies, an engineering company that specialized in building sensing and imaging solutions for the world’s toughest environments. At ...
Keeping your cool means staying calm through tense, angry, or chaotic situations, and it’s one key to a healthy heart. But what if it’s 90 degrees outside? Summer heat and humidity might make you feel a little cranky, but what does the hot weather mean for your heart? It turns out that keeping your cool is important both emotionally and physically. Your body manages its temperature a couple of different ways. The heart pumps more blood to the skin surface where it can radiate off extra heat, but it must work extra hard to pump that blood further and faster than normal to ...
BUFFALO SILVER BAND SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2:30 P.M., AMPHITHEATER With a history stretching back more than 100 years, the Buffalo Silver Band is a unique presence in the Buffalo-Niagara music scene. As the only British-style brass band in Upstate New York, the Buffalo Silver Band continues the band performance tradition that was established before the U.S. Civil War and rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century. In recent years, the Buffalo Silver Band has played to standing ovations from audiences all over Western New York and Southern Ontario, and was selected in a national ...
When Jose Rodriguez left Guanajuato, Mexico in 2001, he was in search of better job opportunities, better pay and a better life for his family. While living in his native land, he had worked with his father making mud bricks for construction. “The process takes one month. Two people ...
Christine Martin was born on Nov. 28, 1922 at her parents’ home in Chesterfield, Pennsylvania. The first 20 years of her life were spent without the luxury of electricity. Her family of twelve knew no other way, therefore they didn’t see this as a hardship. “There was no electricity ...
