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A Brush With Poverty

Those of you who have followed this column for years know that there were numerous periods in my life when there were hard times. I grew up in a single parent home when that was anything but the norm.The presence of my grandparents in the home made it multigenerational. That was a blessing since my grandmother was my caregiver while my mother worked outside the home. I love them for shepherding us through hard times when my dad just up and left us. They made a comfortable home for us giving up their privacy as a couple and the solitude that their age should have afforded them. My ...

Give It Your Best Shot

A picture of the Erie Railroad viaduct. Photo by Sandy Robison. Send us your ''Best Shot'' of unique moments in your family's life. Write clearly your name and address on the back of the photo along with a few details, and mail to The Post-Journal, Best Shots, c/o Family Desk, P.O. Box 190, Jamestown, NY 14702-0190. Please submit only one photo per family, and include an S.A.S.E. for the return of the photo. We reserve the right to return any photo unpublished. Photos and caption information may also be emailed to family@post-journal.com or submitted via our Facebook fan page.

An Open Letter To The Town Of Busti Board Members

Sometimes the best use of this column is to give others a voice.Today I am giving my space to Karen Dennerlein, who is secretary of the Chautauqua/Cattaraugus Library System Board representing the 38 member libraries in the two counties.Like many others, I am dismayed that the Busti board members seem to view the libraries as an afterthought, ignoring the importance our own residents place on these treasured assets. I'm not sure how much louder we can speak: We love our libraries, we use our libraries and we need our libraries. And since you are charged with demonstrating the will of the ...

Randolph Couple Comes Home To Reunite With Family, Food

Although Lori Milliman has resided in Seven Lakes, North Carolina, for the past five years, she and her husband, Jim, return to Randolph frequently to visit family and friends. They both grew up in the small New York town, where they are well known. Lori worked at the Randolph Academy for many years, later becoming the Clerk for the Town of Randolph and the Villages of East Randolph and Randolph. Her husband, a transmission specialist, ran a business in Waterboro for many years.Just months before moving, they spent many hours working side by side in a vacant storefront on the town's Main ...

JHS History

Many of the children born in Jamestown 100 years ago (1916), were destined to be either a member of Jamestown High School's Class of 1934 or Class of 1935. The Class of 1934 had the distinction of being the last class to graduate from the old Jamestown High School. The Class of 1935 had the distinction of being called the "Orphan Class" because they had no school building in which to attend classes. The new high school was built in 1934-35. This building is still part of the present day Jamestown High School.There are photographs in the collection of the Fenton History Center that show ...

Getting Your Photos Onto Your Computer

Editor's Note: This is the first in a four part series discussing the preservation of photos. And as a reminder, Let's Talk Photography will be moving in the near future to its permanent home on the Tuesday family page.Welcome to another edition of Let's Talk Photography! Today's topic is one that I think will appeal to a lot of the casual shooters out there. I'd like to discuss the process of moving your images off the camera and onto the computer.I know it doesn't seem like a very complicated task or project, but preserving your images and organizing them in a way that you can recall ...