by Olivia Proudfoot | Jun 6, 2023 | Area Fun!, Local Arts, Townie Turned Tourist
After a classic long, cold upstate New York winter and spring, summer has finally arrived! Upstate New York is a beautiful region in the summer and Corning has so many exciting events planned all summer long. From art gallery nights to a weekly farmers market, Corning...
by Sean Lukasik | May 22, 2020 | Community Voices, Townie Turned Tourist, Urban Corning Podcast
If you’re like me, being stuck in one place can feel torturous. But these travel bloggers share their perspective on what we can learn from our local assets, even if we’re stuck here involuntarily. Chris Mitchell has visited 80 countries, but he’s...
by Sean Lukasik | Apr 6, 2018 | Area Fun!, Local Trips, Townie Turned Tourist
If you’re looking for a place to hang out on Friday night, it’s not likely that your friends will?suggest the Painted Post Tavern. That’s because the Tavern, now known as the Benjamin Patterson Inn, is a historic structure built in 1796 and...
by Sean Lukasik | Jan 30, 2018 | Community Voices, Local Arts, Rockwell Museum, Townie Turned Tourist
The following is a guest post from a dear friend and Urban Corning contributor, Amelia Harnas. We miss her when she’s not in Corning and we’re glad to know it’s feeling more like home every day! For the past two weeks, I’ve been living in Brooklyn....
by Dave Rochelle | Dec 19, 2017 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Community Voices, Local Arts, Misc, People of Corning, Townie Turned Tourist, Uncategorized
Corning’s Gaffer District, the City, and numerous businesses & organizations do a great job of decorating our community throughout the holiday season… but there’s plenty to see in our residential neighborhoods too. ?Since we’re all pretty...
by Dave Rochelle | Oct 31, 2017 | Best of Corning, Food & Drink, Misc, Shopping, Townie Turned Tourist, Unique Area Businesses
The arrival of pumpkin-flavored everything seems to have replaced cooler weather as the key harbinger of Autumn? since we?ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice since somewhere around back-to-school week. Whether you?re an avowed aficionado, hopelessly indifferent (that?s...
