WASHINGTON — The D.C. region has started seeing snow from what could be a major winter storm Sunday. While the snow will be ...
See scenes from the Knickerbocker Ice Festival, returning after a decade-plus hiatus, at Rockland Lake in Rockland County, NY ...
The Knickerbocker Ice Co. cut the ice from spring-fed Rockland Lake. The company used a gravity-powered incline railway — so innovative that Thomas Edison made documentary films about the industry and ...
On October 26, 1809, New Yorkers opened the Evening Post to a notice titled “Distressing.” The report lived up to its label. A “small elderly gentleman” named Knickerbocker had vanished, last seen ...