A man from Troy says restoring photographs from more than 100 years ago started out as an accident. John Bulmer is a photo historian and commercial photographer. He travels to antique shops and flea ...

Before Native Americans or Europeans settled in the Troy area, it was a river plain filled with oak and yellow (Pitch) pine, probably similar to Albany’s Pine Bush. The pine barrens environment was ...

A selection of kitchen tools was offered in a coupon book from the late 19th or early 20th century. Bread recipes in “The Deconness Home Cookbook” are interspersed with unattributed quotes that ...

A self-portrait in a mirror of Troy writer Amy Halloran in the library of the Hart Cluett Museum, home to the archives of the Rensselaer County Historical Society. She is writer-in-residence at the ...

As previously reported by News Center 7, the oldest log tavern in the state went up in flames Saturday morning. The Overfield Tavern Museum was built in 1808. Many of the things inside were ...