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Although it was built in Cortland, NY in 1925, this truck at CNY Living History Center found its way to a firehouse in Argentina. It was used there until 1958, when four Argentine firemen, or “bomberos,” took the journey of a lifetime -- driving the truck from Buenos Aries to Cortland, New York. The journey took almost 2 years, during which time the men lived on the truck, surmounting the mountains between Argentina and Chile and fixing axles broken by rough terrain. After many travails, the valiant bomberos finally arrived in Cortland in the summer of 1960, driving in at the blazing speed of 5 MPH. For more on this epic story of perseverance, which in many characterizes the spirit of the museum, visit Cortland's CNY Living History Center!

Today you can see the haunted table, and the secret it contains, at the Rochester Historical Society!  Happy Halloween from Artifact|NY!  

http://everson.org/exp…/current-exhibitions/mastering-medium

For the full story on this artwork and the mural project: http://rockwellmuseum.org/blog/ortiz-40th-anniversary-mural/

Document conservation supported by the Ralph Myron Sayer and Sophrona Davis Sayer Endowment Fund.

This late 19C Mohawk Lamp at the Oneida County Historical Society guided canal boats along New York State Canals, including the Erie Canal. Illuminated by kerosene, it marked navigable channels, safely leading canal boats to their destinations. Oneida County is the site of the first completed section of the Erie Canal (Utica to Rome, completed 1819), which sparked economic prosperity in the region by expediting transportation from New York City to the Great Lakes and beyond.

#‎Itsofficiallysummerwhen‬ you need a sprinkler like this one! Displayed in the coach house of the Heart’s Delight Farm Heritage Exhibit at the William H Miner Agricultural Research Institute, the Studebaker Patent Sprinkler wagon was used to dampen over 30 miles of roads on Heart’s Delight Farm in Chazy, NY, and likely used to water gardens and lawns as well. The wagon was purchased by William Henry Miner, the orphan-turned-millionaire railroad inventor and philanthropist, who established Heart’s Delight Farm with his wife Alice in 1903. Using cutting edge hydroelectric power, the modest farm developed into a modern working farm with over 800 employees, more than 12,000-acres, and several hundred buildings. Today, the Heart’s Delight Farm Heritage Exhibit is an idyllic tribute to the  technological advances of the Miners and their industrious lives.

This cucumber, held at the Southeast Museum, has been around since 1887 -- that's 129 years! The cucumber was grown and preserved by newlyweds James W. Robinson and Libby Ann Fisher in their first garden. In 1887 the couple placed a glass jar around the growing cucumber -- when it grew to the size of the jar, they cut the cucumber, poured alcohol into the jar, and covered the opening with a wax seal. See this epic experiment -- which puts the “preserves” back in preservation -- at the Southeast Museum in Brewster, NY!