“Gremlins” at the Uptown Theater in Utica

So the last time I passed through the Mohawk Valley, I had my Nikkormat FTn in the car.  Of course it was loaded with a roll of Kodachrome, and of course I had to take some photos of things that I remembered from the time I spent at Hamilton College and the surrounding villages and…

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Studying for the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Nearly 30 years ago, I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time.  I was a freshman at Hamilton College, and one of the college’s independent film clubs booked Rocky Horror for the weekend. I never saw the film before I went to college; I knew that it played for many weekends at…

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How I Almost Killed the Smith-Corona College Typing Cartel

For this post, we have to step into the WABAC machine and travel back to the early 1980’s. I was a student at Hamilton College, one of those “Little Ivies” tucked away in the bucolic  farmlands of central New York. Back in those days, you were expected to provide fully-typed term papers to your professors.…

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