Fulton
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Snow
My hometown got namechecked on ABC News the other day because of the weeklong snowstorm we’ve been experiencing. Not much happens in this burg, but we do have a history of national news outlets reporting on our blizzards. I guess it’s better than being one of those cities that only get news coverage for persistently Continue reading
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Lock O-3
I tend to think of my hometown of Fulton, N.Y. as being a pretty typical Rust-Belt municipality. There are factories — some still operating, some abandoned. There’s a small downtown area that has never really flourished at any point in my lifetime, as opposed to say 70-100 years ago, when by all accounts it bustled Continue reading
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Natty Bumppo Slept Here
A fun fact about my hometown: it was the setting for a piece of classic American literature. Sort of. I say “sort of” because the novel in question, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pathfinder, or, The Inland Sea, was set at a time when the patch of ground that is now Fulton was really just a Continue reading
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Sunnybrook Meadows
A few days ago, I became a resident of the Sunnybrook Meadows neighborhood in Fulton. I didn’t actually move. They just put a sign up on the corner branding the neighborhood as such. I use the term “branding” quite deliberately. Apparently, when this neighborhood was built back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was marketed Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.
a.k.a. V.J. 