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"North Shore" has a new name: 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures!

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In 1808, a single mill on the banks of the Genesee River ground flour for a handful of settlers. A bare few years later that tranquility was shattered when the Erie Canal brought in the world, and a sprawl of 1300 homes along both banks became America's first boomtown. Water and power, industry and creativity metamorphosed a swampy village into a powerhouse that incorporated as the City of Rochester in 1834.

Today, in 2008, the year 2034 beckons as another milestone. That future is near enough that most people alive today will be able to greet Rochester's Bicentennial, yet far enough that changes may stagger our perceptions of community, culture, technology, and perhaps the very essence of what it means to be human.

Rochester, the Greater Rochester area, Western New York, the Great Lakes, the world, will be different, transformed, perhaps unrecognizable. This Fall, eighteen Rochster-area writers will show us their vision of how.