The earliest confirmed ancestor that I've found is Thomas Cross, my 5 x Great Grandfather, who married Hannah Canham in Great Holland (only a few miles from where my parents still live) in February 1776. On Wednesday I was in the Society of Genealogists library and I found a lovely bound copy of the...

Essex are so hard up that players have to pay £2000 each in a preseason warmup tournament in Abu Dhabi....

Four boys' cricket teams could end up with a legal bill of thousands of pounds after being sued by a mother of four who was allegedly hit in the head by a ball during a warm up session....

The 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers are a defensive team, it’s just time to face facts. The Steelers spent the offseason loading up with offensive weapons to give to Ben Roethlisberger and Bruce Arians. The thinking was that the Steelers would quickly become a vertical team. Roethlisberger would have...

The foundation of any good football team is the battle fought in the trenches, and for the Pittsburgh Steelers, that will be the key to their season in 2008. There are many question marks coming into this season. Who’s going to replace All-Pro left guard Alan Faneca? Will Marvel Smith be able ...

The Adirondack Journal reported this week that Warren County supervisors "derailed" (pun apparently intended) a local tourist railroad development project by voting to pay a consultant for the design of two of the railroads train stations at Hadley and Thurman. Looking around the net, it's hard to p...

i: yes this was entirely my fault for sitting down in front of a “michael barrymore: what really happened” documentary… ii: viz that i (and all viewers) have to endure jacques peretti constantly concluding that “no one can possibly know what really happened” ftb HE THE ...

Brian Fleury, a former professional hockey player, is now the first-year softball coach at Jefferson, where the Colonials are off to the best start in 15 years....

TODAY’S HEADLINES: Affinergy gets $3M in grants for biological “linkers” (release) Specialty pharma EUSA raises $50M, spends $23M for public biotech Cytogen (release) Pulse Health raises $2M for handheld free-radical device (release) LifeMasters takes in $15M for wellness, disease-...

It's February and that means a post on some aspect of African American history in the Adirondacks.Here is last year's popular list of stories. I recently discovered that one of the Almanack's post, The Ku Klux Klan in the Adirondacks, had been used for the companion website of the new PBS documentar...