Off the Page

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.

Within a state that can boast of the Manhattan skyline, Niagara Falls, the Statue of Liberty and the Finger Lakes, the Adirondack Mountains stand out as New York's most powerful landmark.  It's not just some six million acres of the Adirondack Forest Preserve declared by the State...
In any small town, it is commonly believed, everybody knows everybody else's business. This tendency may be snoopy or supportive, but at least it can serve to enliven the quiet surroundings.  That may be an unfair stereotype -- city and country dwellers generally have the same number of...
It's been said that you could seat a wise professor on one end of a log and a dedicated student on the other and you'd have a university.  Of course the needs of the society and demands of the generations require more. Ezra Cornell established the university that bears his name in 1869...