New York
There is a lot more to New York than one famous skyline. Wherever in the state you call home, the way you see it today belongs in your own words.
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Which lake-effect winter do you remember best, and who showed up with the snowblower?
There is far more to New York State than one skyline, and whether yours is a canal town, a Finger Lakes farm or a cabin with black flies, you know a part of it nobody else does. Start writing it down with ToldForward's one question a day. Add Archive Membership and a guide will one day help the people you choose find any story you told, quoted and dated.
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New York
In western and central New York, winter has its own vocabulary. Cold air crossing Lake Erie and Lake Ontario can bury Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse or the Tug Hill in lake-effect snow. People who live there know the rhythm: the shovel by the door, the neighbor with the snowblower, the storm that everyone still talks about. Ask yourself which winter you remember best and why. The answer probably says as much about the people around you as it does about the weather.
The Adirondack Park covers about six million acres of mountains, lakes and forest, more protected land than anywhere else in the lower 48 states. Out west, Niagara Falls State Park, established in 1885, is the oldest state park in the country. Maybe your summers meant a cabin, a canoe and black flies, or a road trip to hear the roar of the falls. Write down where you went and who came along. Those trips are the kind of thing the people you love will one day wish they had asked you about.
When the Erie Canal opened in 1825, it connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie and opened the interior of the country to settlement, and canal cities like Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo grew fast. Today the Finger Lakes region has more farms than any other part of the state, and more wineries too. Whether you grew up on a farm, in a canal town or in a busy city, you have a view of this state that nobody else has. Your words can carry it forward.
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