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…
Read MoreHow 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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