At long last, our 2021 book, Rails to Trails: Rochester Junction Then and Now by Diane Ham & Charles Woolever is available for purchase. It’s a beautiful 182-page softcover book with 127 photos, 51 color pages, 7 informative maps, and a full index. Proceeds benefit The Mendon Foundation. In the Read more…
On Sunday, August 29th, we hosted a record 176 Half Marathoners and 52 5K’ers on the Lehigh Valley Trail for the in-person 10th Annual Black Diamond Express Races, which were our first since 2019. These numbers don’t include Virtual Runners and no-shows, which brought us to 289 total participants. Our Read more…
Several Mendon Foundation volunteers stepped up in a big way for the Saturday April 17th “Pick up the Parks” event, in concert with the Monroe County Parks Department, through coordination with the Mendon Foundation. Cindy Barben and her colleagues from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Canandaigua, NY, Chapter Read more…
The April 1, 2021 meeting of the Honeoye Falls – Town of Mendon Historical Society will feature John Farrell, former Mendon resident, former Mendon Foundation President, avid cyclist & involved Mendon Foundation Director & volunteer. The topic of John’s talk will be “A Historical Account of the Creation of the Read more…
Mendon Foundation fan Judy Foster has just finished creating a new book called A Moment in Time: A Reflection of 2020. Her book totals 84 pages, full of color photography and inspirational quotes and thoughts. Over 90% of the photos were taken on the Lehigh Valley Trail, and all but Read more…
Longtime Mendon Foundation fan and volunteer Mark Skipworth has graciously agreed to work with some pre-eminent Lehigh Valley Railroad photographers, allowing us to share some of their remarkable photographs with us. Each of these photographs is from a location along what is, today, the Lehigh Valley Trail. Our hope is that these photographs Read more…