The JELL-O Gallery – Le Roy NY It’s “Staycation Destinations” on Family Life The hometown of Jell-O brand gelatin continues to celebrate the century-plus of fun, wiggly food. The Le Roy Historical Society intentionally chose a more-fitting name for its museum — this is an art gallery. As you’ll hear in this podcast, some of …
It’s Staycation Destinations on Family Life We take a Trolley to this week’s Staycation Destination. The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum offers a ride into pre-automobile history. Most people think of the Land of Make-Believe in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood when they think of trolleys. However, the electrified mode of transportation was real-world big business, shaped the development …
Here is more from the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum…. Volunteer tour guide Gary Malaskovitz gives Greg Gillispie and our listeners a vision of that history, plus a ride on one of the nine fully-restored trolleys which still offer rides to the museum’s visitors. In this bonus online content, two additional stories: why families enjoy bringing children …
Family Life’s “Staycation Destinations” this week takes you to Somewhere Over the Rainbow!…. L. Frank Baum’s hometown — Chittenango, New York — has a claim to fame that draws together everyone from cowardly lions to scarecrows to tin men…. and your little dog too. Baum wrote the book that inspired the 1939 Judy Garland movie …
National Soaring Museum – Elmira NY – Staycation Destinations The Soaring Museum is an interesting placed to visit any time, but the week ahead (July 6-13) has a unique event while comes to our listening area only once every four years. Some two dozen motorless aircraft “descend” on Elmira, New York for the International …
It’s “Staycation Destinations” on Family Life “Staycation Destinations” takes you to a museum which celebrates how a water-powered sawmill fostered a transformation of America. The Hanford Mills Museum in Delaware County New York displays a still-operating waterwheel that powered the mill’s equipment. Education Coordinator Ryan Jones tells us about how economic, geographic and social history …
It’s “Staycation Destinations” on Family Life We begin the Summer 2024 tour of Pennsylvania and New York in the Finger Lakes region, celebrating 300+ people who transformed medicine, culture, sports, politics, the arts and so much more. Every one of these special people — a woman. The National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls …
It’s “Staycation Destinations” on Family Life! This special edition of the Family Life Noon Report offers a radio version of our “vacation slideshow” from Summer 2023. This half-hour special recaps our Staycation Destination interviews from the past few months. Hear these stories, about the women who launched a cultural movement from an upstate New York …
It’s “Staycation Destinations” on Family Life! Each Friday afternoon, our Noon Report took you to a unique location in the Family Life listening area. Our goals were to find a variety of places which connect with a variety of interests, fairly close to home, and fairly affordable — whether for a day trip or a …
“Staycation Destinations” on Family Life The Strong Museum of Play opened a generation ago (in 1982) and unites multiple generations with the delights– and the necessity! — of play. Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong (starting in her childhood) became a prolific collector of dolls, toys and many other household items. Her legacy now brings hundreds …
