history

The visit

A Q&A with the incomparable Loreena McKennitt; photo by Richard Haughton

Full bloom

A brief history of Rochester's Lilac Festival

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Built for the dead; designed for the living

Mount Hope Cemetery is full of meaningful connections

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Finding the truth

Walter English helps Black Americans research their family history; photo by Lauren Petracca

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Finding Marjorie in the Flower City

A Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist’s Rochester roots

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Stepping into history

Historic collection boasts 150 years of shoes; photos by Michael Hanlon

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Visual legacies

The Albert R. Stone and Howard W. Coles Collections at the Rochester Museum & Science Center

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Forgotten fly girl

Rochester’s trailblazing WWII WASP

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The year the virus came to town

Rochester handled the Spanish flu with aplomb