Fashion, music, innovations made '50s fabulous

They were the years that brought us stylish black-and-white saddle shoes and the then-scandalous sounds and gyrations of Elvis Presley. But it was also the era of a polio epidemic, McCarthyism and one of America's most forgotten wars.

The 1950s was a tumultuous decade of high highs and low lows, and now the Cayuga Museum

of History and Art in Auburn is exhibiting photos, pieces of pop culture and textual displays that museum curator Carrie Barrett hopes will show the numerous ways