Yuletide in the Country is a beloved holiday tradition at the Genesee Country Village & Museum, New York's largest living history museum. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2018, Yuletide in the Country is a 90-minute interactive progressive tour of…
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Our teenage daughters have grown up with a fascination of “old-timey” things, and there’s so many ways to explore history in the Rochester area. I wanted to get my teens moving, and created a roundup of living history attractions focused on planes…
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Ahhh, traveling with teens (ages 13-18), gone are the days where we can just pack them up in the car and hit the road. Now they have their own thoughts, ideas, and yes… snark…
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Family blogger and big science fan, Dave Parfitt (AdventuresbyDaddy.com) takes visitors on tour of the RMSC Museum & Science Center's newest exhibit "Elements of the Extreme." Fists, sticks, and blades were flying at the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) as History Channel’s Doug…
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One of Rochester’s favorite holiday traditions is the Sweet Creations Gingerbread Display at the George Eastman Museum…
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Exploring seasonal family-fun activities in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region. A recent series of days off of school days left us wondering what to do? Ultimately, we embraced the break, and used the time to enjoy seasonal family-fun activities…
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The 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival opens Thursday, September 15, and runs for 10 days through Saturday, September 24. With over 500 shows (more than a third of which are free) in 25+ different venues spread across downtown Rochester…
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A simple house belies a complex tale – the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House preserves the history of the woman and her struggle for equal rights and voting rights for women…
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The Erie Canal – I’ve run beside it, biked beside it, kayaked through it, even sung about it, but in all my years in Rochester I had never taken a Sam Patch boat tour or gone through one of its famous locks. My kids had ridden the Sam Patch on school…
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Family blogger Dave Parfitt shares about visiting Seneca Park Zoo with older children and learningabout the importance of conservation…
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