Episodes

  • Fairport Canal Days - Generations In Service to Community

    Fairport Canal Days - Generations In Service to Community
    Jun 3 2025
    For nearly 50 years, the all-volunteer Fairport Canal Days Festival has set the standard for non-profit, community-based summer festivals in New York State. No one does it better. Festival Co-Chairs, Lydia Rugaber and Ian Winner, represent a new generation of leadership for Fairport Canal Days. Each began volunteering as teenagers with their parents, Wendy Rugaber and yours truly. Today, Ian and Lydia are responsible for guiding the work of a dozen committee members and hundreds of volunteers who help host approximately 200,000 festival goers the first weekend in June each year.
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    54 mins
  • It's all about that boat, with Capt. Tammee Poinan Grimes

    It's all about that boat, with Capt. Tammee Poinan Grimes
    May 1 2025
    Captain Tammee Poinan Grimes is the Master of the flatwater behemoth known as the Colonial Belle. We track the arc of her career, starting as a dance studio operator and mom, evolving into the Captain of the largest, and one of the last, tour boats on the Erie Canal, to becoming a leading advocate for the revitalization of the Canal as a recreational boating and tourism destination.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Architect Chuck Smith – Designs for a Future Rooted in History

    Architect Chuck Smith – Designs for a Future Rooted in History
    Apr 15 2025
    Chuck Smith – Designs for a Future Rooted in History

    Native Minnesotan turned Fairport fixture, Chuck Smith, a highly regarded architect well known for his residential and lake house designs, discusses historic preservation, design in the public realm, and current housing issues in the Finger Lakes and Erie Canal communities.
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    1 hr
  • A Tale of Two Villages - Pittsford's Robert Corby talks codes and consequences.

    A Tale of Two Villages - Pittsford's Robert Corby talks codes and consequences.
    Mar 31 2025
    Native son and former Pittsford Mayor, Robert Corby, discusses possible impacts of proposed zoning code changes in both Pittsford and Fairport. Highlighted are the potentially negative effects on residential neighborhoods and streetscapes, as well as urban renewal and design choices that have altered the historic character of these Erie Canal Villages.
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    58 mins
  • Sean McCarthy

    Sean McCarthy
    Mar 17 2025
    Native Fairporter, entrepreneur, family man, tent and event industry leader and now music festival auteur, Sean McCarthy talks to us about growing up in Fairport, his road to success as a business founder/owner/operator and family man.
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    58 mins
  • What is P-Town Profiles?

    What is P-Town Profiles?
    Mar 15 2025
    This hyper-local podcast focuses on Rochester’s east side towns and villages. Featuring conversations with business and community leaders who help shape our local economy, public places, policy, and politics. Those who have made and want to make a difference discuss the ideas, issues, opportunities, and challenges facing Pittsford, Penfield, Perinton and the villages of Fairport, East Rochester, and Pittsford.
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    1 min
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