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Joseph Taylor was a world-ranked boxer before he opened Gentleman Joes jazz club in Binghamton. That explains why boxing legend Joe Louis showed up.

Alice Freeman Palmer, born in the Town of Colesville, became the president of Wellesley College — only the second woman head of a college — at age 26.

Endicott Johnson is no more, but the Johnson family dynasty remains in the form of many things named after them and a large community legacy.

Part two of a three-part series on the life of George F. Johnson chronicles the beginnings and rapid rise of Endicott Johnson Shoe Company.

The first of a three-part series on the life of George F. Johnson, who rose from a poor family and a sixth-grade education to a Southern Tier titan.

Looking at historical census figures for Broome County and the City of Binghamton over 200 years can tell a great deal about the history of our area.

Photos of 12-year-old George Hamilton, of the Town of Fenton, were used by Norman Rockwell to create a 1922 cover of Country Gentleman magazine.

In the late 19th century, the Town of Windsor was the site of a growing community of summer homes along the Susquehanna River known as Columbia Grove.

Former Broome County historian Gerald Smith has a family connection to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Agnes during the Flood of 1972.

Spanning Time columnist Gerald Smith remembers his childhood years when summertime didnt mean a vacation, but hard work on the family farm.