PennFord High School Celebrates National Freedom Day, Alumni Also Takes Part Virtually!

National Freedom day is a celebration that memorializes President Abraham Lincoln signing the thirteenth amendment into the United States Constitution and outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865. National Freedom Day marks an important time in the history of United States because under the thirteenth amendment slavery and involuntary solitude became illegal in the United States. ...

A GOOD READ: North American black history is offered in detail in books

Black History Month (or African-American History Month) is a good time to read about the history of the civil rights movement.

Hallway in Hornell's St. Ann's School a history work in progress

St. Ann’s 5th grader Kayla Flaitz points out her mother’s 1995 class graduation picture to school Principal Lisa Dirlam.

Column: ‘She Had Many Faces’

Editor’s Note: Back in November 2011, I received an e-mail from Julie Praetzel in response to my column “The Artist’s Place.” Praetzel, who is an aspiring actress and filmmaker living in New York, revealed her struggling endeavor to tell a story about Juanita Guccione, an artist whose work has been buried in her son’s basement [...]

Keeping the magic in the bullet

Hailed as wonder drugs when they were discovered in the 1940s, the overuse of antibiotics is leading us towards a future without cures for bacterial infections.