August 8, 2011 by Kathryn
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Leesville, New York
Leesville, New York, was one of the most western posts on the First Great Western Turnpike, built as a toll road from Albany, the state capital, to the frontier town of Cherry Valley in the late 18th century. Commerce didn’t come cheap – drivers (of a different sort) paid 3 cents per dozen to move their sheep and swine along the road. No tolls were collected from people going to or returning from church or the grist mill, or from those who were on military duty or on journeys within the town where the tollgate was located.
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August 5, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Geneva Ohio
The Geneva (Ohio) Grape Jamboree celebrates all things grape. Held the last weekend of September, it features wine tasting, various competitions (including waitresses balancing glasses of wine while racing down Route 20) grape stomping, and two parades, as well as the crowning of Miss Grapette.
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July 27, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Waterloo, New York
Three blocks away from the excitement of Main Street.
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July 22, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Becket, Mashachusetts
The West Becket Cemetery includes the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers. The headstones, tilted this way and that by time, seem to mimic the surrounding hills and Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
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July 17, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Albany, New York
This is as urban as it gets along Route 20 in New York, as it passes through the state capital of Albany. Here it runs along the Empire State Plaza, home to the offices of state legislators and executive branch agencies. More compelling, perhaps, is the egg-shaped structure called, appropriately enough, The Egg, a performing arts center that descends six stories below ground level.
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Modern-day Albany is a far cry from its early days. It was first settled as the Dutch trading posts of Fort Nassau (1614) and lays claim to being the longest continually chartered city in the United States (chartered in 1686).
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July 12, 2011 by Jan Albers
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Freeport, Illinois
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July 8, 2011 by Kathryn
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Crawford, Nebraska
Small town social media.
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July 7, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Chadron, Nebraska
This sod house is part of the Museum of the Fur Trade, in Chadron, Nebraska, built on the site of a trading post for the American Fur Company that was established in 1837. The post was in ruins by the mid-1880s, and it was reconstructed in 1956 on its original foundation stones.
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July 4, 2011 by Karen Titus
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Auburn, New York
This girl must be in her mid- 20s by now. Surely she’s performing on stage, wherever she is.
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July 1, 2011 by Jan Albers
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Grape Jamboree
Geneva, Ohio
‘Tis the season of fireworks and parades.
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The Accidental Highway 