More than a half-century after the Triplets played their final game in Johnson City, a pair of historic markers are to be erected at the site of their ballpark, Johnson Field.
Always fun Broome County Historian Gerald Smith is featured on the October 6 edition of the weekly, local public affairs program, Southern Tier Close Up.
Gerald Smith, who has been the Broome County historian for three decades, has been recognized for distinguished service by the New York Academy of History.
For a brief time in the early 20th century, Binghamton was home to the New York state headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. On St. Patrick's Day in 1923, city residents were shocked to discover pamphlets promoting the Klan had been left at their homes.
One of Broome County's more unusual small historic landmarks sits in the corner of a Johnson City park.
It's a pagoda constructed by Endicott Johnson shoe factory workers over 100 years ago.
The odd-looking structure is a short distance from the carousel in CFJ Park...
Veteran Binghamton broadcaster Bill Parker joined Broome County historian Gerald Smith on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program Friday morning.
Parker was on hand when WNBF-TV Channel 12 (now WBNG-TV) officially started operations on December 1, 1949...