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The Friends of the Albany Rural Cemetery has announced an author talk with novelist Elizabeth Brundage, set for Sunday, June 6th at 2 pm. Brundage will speak about her new novel The Vanishing Point on the lawn of the historic 1899 Marcus T. Reynolds House at the Albany Rural Cemetery. [Read more…] about Author Elizabeth Brundage at Albany Rural Cemetery
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With more than two hundred miles of shore land, the Long Island has many diverse beaches. For centuries, the island’s beaches have provided sustenance, relaxation, and inspiration. Long Island’s history is intertwined with its beaches including its sandy Atlantic Ocean surf beaches, calm bayfront beaches, and rugged North Shore Long Island Sound beaches. [Read more…] about Long Island Beaches History Presentation
The latest episode of “Empire State Engagements” features a conversation with Dr. Jennifer A. Lemak, Chief Curator of History at the New York State Museum and co-editor of the journal New York History, about her book Southern Life, Northern City (SUNY Press/Excelsior Editions, 2008). [Read more…] about An Interview With State Museum Curator Jennifer Lemak
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In 1844 America was in a state of deep unrest, grappling with xenophobia, racial, and ethnic tension on a national scale that feels singular to our time, but echoes the earliest anti-immigrant sentiments of the country.
In that year Philadelphia was set aflame by a group of Protestant ideologues — avowed nativists — who were seeking social and political power rallied by charisma and fear of the Irish immigrant menace. [Read more…] about Fires of Philadelphia: A New Book On The 1844 Nativist Riots
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In The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City’s Waterfront (Cornell University Press, 2021) Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbor. [Read more…] about The Floating Pool Lady: Bringing A Public Pool to NYC’s Waterfront
Episode two of “Empire State Engagements” features a conversation with Dr. Catherine O’Donnell of Arizona State University exploring her book Elizabeth Seton, American Saint (Ithaca, NY: Three Hills/Cornell University Press, 2018).
O’Donnell discussed young Elizabeth Seton’s formative years in New York City, the intellectual forces and family tragedies that informed her spiritual journey, the evolution of American Catholicism, and Mother Seton’s remarkable journey from despair to serenity and, ultimately, sainthood. [Read more…] about Catherine O’Donnell Discusses ‘Elizabeth Seton: American Saint’
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The new book The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021) by Patrick O’Donnel looks back at the American Revolution’s soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. [Read more…] about Indispensables: New Book On Marblehead’s Soldier-Mariners
The guns at Fort Sumter had barely fallen silent when Hobart Walker – an idealistic New York teenager enlisted. From then until the very last days of the war, he successively wore the uniform of five different units, suffered wounds in battle and was held as a prisoner-of-war. Discharged for a disability, he re-enlisted. Discharged when his regiment was overstaffed, he re-enlisted. He evolved from starry-eyed youth to seasoned veteran, but he never lost sight of that which sustained him – the conviction that his country needed him. [Read more…] about Tragic, But True: A New York Soldier In The Civil War
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The new novel The Third Mrs. Galway (Kaylie Jones Books, 2021) by Deirdre Sinnott looks back at Utica in 1835, when newlywed Helen Galway discovers two people who have escaped enslavement are hiding in the shack behind her husband’s house. She must then decide if she should she be a “good wife” and report the fugitives, or if she will defy convention and come to their aid. [Read more…] about New Novel Considers Role of Hesitant Utica Abolitionists
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The new book Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift (Cornell University Press, 2021) by Jessica DuLong is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. [Read more…] about Saved at the Seawall: New Book Highlights 9/11 Stories