Upstream 3 continues in the tradition of Upstream and Upstream 2 with articles, essays, poems and short stories by former or current residents of the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. This issue include an article by Fulton County Historian, Peter Betz, on how the bicycle transformed the Mohawk Valley, an article on the naming of the Minaville, Auriesville and the Town of Florida by Bert Nepaulsingh, an article by City of Amsterdam Historian, Rob von Hasseln, on Clarence Dart, a Tuskegee airman from Saratoga County, an article on Herkimer's influence on the early development of basketball by Daniel T. Weaver and an interview with the Mayor of Amsterdam, Ann Thane. It also includes personal essays by Daniel T. Weaver and Phil Sheehan, poetry by Kelly de la Rocha and Maureen Hand, short fiction by Bob Cudmore and David Northrup, commentary by L. D. Davidson and Olya Thompson as well as two book reviews.