WSKG's bi-weekly interview & call-in program with local authors from Binghamton, Ithaca, Elmira and surrounding areas served by WSKG Public Radio. Off the Page is hosted by Bill Jaker.
Off the Page
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Every sport has its oddities. There are the football players who ran the wrong way, scoring a touchdown for the opposing team. There is the legend of Rosie Ruiz, the pseudo-marathon runner who tried to win the New York City Marathon by hopping a ride on the Subway, then attempted a...
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The preparation for military conflict is called "mobilization", and the distinctive glossary of warfare speaks of deployment and matériel and ordnance. Things that have to be moved into place can be as big as a battleship or as small as a bullet. It doesn't even...
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History was not always kind to Binghamton, NY. Binghamton was named for Pennsylvania politician William Bingham who owned the acreage but likely never even visited it. It was tied into the state's canal system just in time for the railroad to make the canal obsolete. Until the...
