It was just after 7 Monday night that I dropped by the Albany Bottle Drop to get rid of two bags of empty soda bottles. To my surprise, a robot greeted me.
For a long time I had known that the numbered stones on the grounds of Central School were placed there more than a century ago by graduates of Albany College. But who were these people, and what became of them?
Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath is almost half a century old, as the wooden sign on Oak Street reminds us.

A moment at the Burkhart Street crossing
Another day, another train.