All in
the Family

The Majors emigrated from Ireland, the Smolinskis from what was then Russia-Poland, and they settled in Central New York.

Family stories and extended family trees.
 
Seems like
only yesterday
Sometimes it's fun to live life in the rearview mirror.
 
Spotlight on Solvay
Stories and photos from a once boisterous, highly industrialized village that seemed much larger than it really was until it was forced to reinvent itself as a Syracuse suburb.
 
by Jack Major:
Mixed bag
Some people and events that caught my attention while rummaging through old newspapers, plus a few rants about the current state of affairs.
Starstruck
A collection of newpaper interviews with celebrities from the 1960s through the '80s. Several didn't turn out the way I hoped.
 
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