Matthew Ballard
Prior to this year, I would spend the better part of my week writing ‘short’ pieces for the local newspaper focusing on historical people and events. Although it was tiring…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 5 Popular during the Victorian era, post-mortem photographs provided family members with an opportunity to capture a lasting likeness of their deceased loved ones. In this particular case, a young child…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 4 The use of Medina sandstone to craft headstones was rather limited in the nineteenth century. County Historian C. W. Lattin has speculated that the common use…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 3 In November of 1984, County Historian and Cobblestone Museum Director C. W. Lattin published a book entitled Architecture Destroyed in Orleans County, New York. The focus of this work was to…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 2 Although society laments the apparent death of objective journalism, bias in the media is far from a new phenomenon. In fact, the concept of nonpartisan news is just…
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