Sale of Old Stone Barracks Pending Demolition Begins at Gaslight Village Albany’s Endangered Historic Resource List Hacketts Shutters Last Store Saranac Lake MovesToward City Status Hood Ornament Stolen from Auto Museum Erie Canal Shipwreck Found in Oswego River Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about New […]
As part of an initiative to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Washington Post is tweeting the events leading up to the secession of South Carolina, in the words of the people who lived it – from journals, letters, official records and newspaper of the day. The cast of characters tweeted include […]
Adirondack Almanack: Lake George’s 1st Gold Cup Race Boat Adirondack Attic: Vintage Mittens Famous New Yorkers: Isaac Merritt Singer Adirondack Life: Isaac Jogues Pilgrimage 2009 NCPR – New York’s Slave Legacy, Past and Present Franklin Co Historian: Henry Brush’s Rifle Ephemeral NY: The 29th Street Honeymoon Gang Brooklynology: Brooklyn Life Magazine, 1890-1931 Bovina History: Bovina […]
Documentary Recalls Radical Activism, Repression Dredging of Utica Harbor Complete Official: Saratoga Closure ‘Definite Possibility’ Utica Arts Institute President to Resign 230 Year Old Canoe Discovered John Brown Raid Descendant Lays Wreath Seneca Seek to Redress ‘-Historic Injustice’ Each Friday morning New York History compiles for our readers the previous week’s top stories about New […]
Adirondack Life: Isaac Jogues Pilgrimage 2009 NCPR – New York’s Slave Legacy, Past and Present Franklin Co Historian: Henry Brush’s Rifle Ephemeral NY: The 29th Street Honeymoon Gang Brooklynology: Brooklyn Life Magazine, 1890-1931 Bovina History: Bovina Bands Ben Muessig: Volunteers Rebuild War Planes in Brooklyn City Room: The Natural History Museum’s Gorillas NCPR: Profile of […]
Carol Ash Debuts New Parks Nonprofit NPS Debates NJ’s Fort Hancock All-White Stuyvesant Town Fight Recalled Majority of Jewish Holocaust Victims Identified Suburban Streets, Fresh War of 1812 Graves Watertown Civil War Monument Restoration Troy’s 28th Victorian Stroll is Sunday EPA Celebrates 40 Years U.S.S. Slater Closed For Winter VPT to Air Local Newspaper History […]
151 years ago this week, John Brown was executed and his body was returned to the Adirondacks. Had Brown escaped from Harpers Ferry rather than been captured he might well today be just a footnote, one of the tens of thousands that struggled to undermine the institution of slavery in America before the Civil War. […]
Associated Press: Preservationists Split on Fire Towers David Stradling: State of Environmental History The Albany Project:: Thinking About Parks Don Rittner: New York’s Assault On Our Culture Placid News: Plans For Monaco Theme-park Chico Garcia: NYC’s Houston & B Murals,1996-2010 Paddle Making: 1890 Adirondack Guide Paddle Bovina History: Help the Bovina Historical Society The Colbert […]
Paterson Open to Museum Change WGY Radio Legend Leaving Radio Model Train Museum Headed to Pottersville ‘-Nightmare on Elm St House’ Coming Down Remembering ‘-Want Ad Digest’ Founder 150 Years: A Civil War Battle Defeat In Capital Region, Artifacts of War Paterson Announces Land Claims Settlement New York Budget Troubles Worsen Montgomery Co. Awarded Underground […]
The Albany Project:: Thinking About Parks Don Rittner: New York’s Assault On Our Culture Placid News: Plans For Monaco Theme-park Chico Garcia: NYC’s Houston & B Murals,1996-2010 Paddle Making: 1890 Adirondack Guide Paddle Bovina History: Help the Bovina Historical Society The Colbert Report: Doris Kearnes Goodwin Old Salt Blog: New York’s Graveyard of Ships Bruce […]