First Things First

Found (via an email from a RootsWeb list) a fascinating website today: Old Fulton NY Post Cards. The name's outmoded, since the site offers access to some 10 million scanned pages from newspapers all over New York State with (with an emphasis on the eastern part of the state).

Here's an interesting anecdote from the March 6 1953 edition of the Niagara Falls NY Gazette:

When Senator Joe McCarthy came to New York last Saturday for the televised hearings of his investigating committee, he went to the Federal Court house by BMT subway. He got lost for 30 minutes in the New York underground. McCarthy, incidentally, had to fly to an airfield covered with snow, and was assigned to a small plane which had skis. He told the pilot he was sorry to have him make this trip in such bad weather. "Oh, I'm delighted to do it," the pilot replied. "Five more flying hours, and I'll get my own pilot's license."

Cue the rim shot!

The site, by the way, will prove interesting to those (like me) interested in things historical and genealogical.