Last week I scanned 5 old recipe booklets from Rochester Gas and Electric: The Basic Guide to Cooking. This one is 72 pages with lots of recipes. It also gives cooking tips for beginning cooks. I could have used this one when I was first learning how to cook. The Basic Guide to Cookery. This …
During the early part of the Covid epidemic the Internet Archive started sharing digital books that were still under copyright. Their reason was that all the public libraries were closed and they were helping to make books available to all. Publishers didn’t like that the books that they controlled were being made available for free. …
A history of Monroe County that doesn’t often get mentioned is “Pleasant Valley; An Early History of Monroe County and Region, 1650-1850” (1970) by Florence Lee. Some of the history she writes about was in earlier histories of the County. But she puts together many sources. She does something that the other histories don’t do; …
Last week the only thing I scanned was the book New York Division National Guard War Record. It was about the very short war against Pancho Villa on the US-Mexico border. Villa had been a problem during the Mexican revolution. In March 1916 he attacked Columbus, New Mexico and the nearby US Fort Furlong. President …