Stories & connections.
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Roots
The stories that make us who we are. Our connections, founders & families & the threads that bind us all together.
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Community
Our neighborhoods & village life. Schools, kids, outdoor adventures & landscapes. Fairs & festivals.
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Legacy
History, secrets & the stories from our past that you’ll want to hear. We were revolutionary before the Revolution.
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Access
Even as we celebrate our back roads, we’re not standing still. Tech, broadband, community development projects that are growing our economies and how to invest in them.
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Vibes
Arts & culture with our own twist. Galleries? Poetry? Music? Our artists and craftspeople. Look for it here.
All Stories
The Story Behind The Revolution: Another Look at America’s 250th
If you’ve forgotten more than you learned about what-all led up to signing of the Declaration of Independence on this, its 250th anniversary, what about the stories you never heard? More than a dozen Haundenosaunee artists, sometimes with divergent views, weigh in with the answers in Talkin’ Bout A Revolution: A Haudenosaunee Response to the 250th, now on exhibit at the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave.
Full Germination: Schoharie County Farmers Market to Launch at Cobleskill Fairgrounds Memorial Day
After a nearly-two-year germination, the Schoharie County Farmers Market will launch for a run of 20 Sundays on Memorial Day. Where? The Cobleskill Fairgrounds’ Hall of Ag.
High school basketball’s life-lessons: It’s more than winning at Upstate New York’s Middleburgh Central
In Upstate New York’s schools, we’re all family and even in basketball, life-lessons are as important as winning. Though winning is important to—just ask Middleburgh, Scho-Burgh winners two years running.
How a Focus Group at Wayward Lanes Shaped Root Access
Root Access was never meant to just speak about the community; with the help of our Focus Group, it’s also speaking with it.
How Settles Mountain Became a Public Nature Preserve with Hiking Trails
A generous donation—270 acres of forests, fields, and hiking trails—helped inspire a partnership between the Schoharie Land Land Trust and community volunteers and the creation of the Settles Mountain Land Preserve.
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