Marking New York Legends

Over the past seven years, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation's Legends & Lore® program has erected 73 such legend-centric signs across New York State, ranging from well-known community legends, like the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow and Champ the Lake Monster in Plattsburgh, to local oral traditions, like a cannon heist in Wilmington or a bear brawl in Queens. In the Hungry for History™ program in New York, for instance, the Pomeroy Foundation has erected markers for beef on week sandwiches in Buffalo, Michigan hot dogs in Plattsburgh, and chocolate jumble cookies in Esperance. New Hope Named at 3716 NY-41 A, Moravia, New York Sodom, often paired with Gomorrah, was the ancient Biblical town destroyed by fire from heaven as punishment for its inhabitants' wickedness and depravity. Early the next morning, Mentz ordered the cabin burned to the ground, confessing that the ghost of Kau-Qua-Tau, bound in chains and dripping blood,