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DEC Camps are Looking for Staff

January 16, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

DEC Summer CampThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced they are recruiting staff for the 2021 Summer Environmental Education Camps season. [Read more…] about DEC Camps are Looking for Staff

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New York City, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: camping, DEC

Poetry: Lake George

January 16, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Lake George

is how she saw it
a translucent
blue topaz shadow
disappearing
beneath the stump
of half-eaten pine cones

Read More Poems From the New York Almanack HERE.

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts Tagged With: art, Lake George, Poetry

Empire State Trail Declared Complete

January 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

empire state trailThe Empire State Trail, the nation’s longest multi-use state trail, is now open for use. It spans 750-miles in total, 75 percent of which is off-road, ideal for cyclists, hikers, and runners.

The trail runs from New York City through the Hudson and Champlain valleys to Canada, and from Albany to Buffalo along the Erie Canal. [Read more…] about Empire State Trail Declared Complete

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: bicycling, empire state trail, hiking

Veteran’s Honor Roll Is One Town’s Lonely Sentinel

January 15, 2021 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Town of Wilton’s Veteran’s Honor RollIn winter, it stands silently like a lonely sentinel, set back from Ballard Road in the Town of Wilton, Saratoga County. Day and night the traffic whizzes by the Veteran’s Honor Roll, yet its presence is overlooked by most. [Read more…] about Veteran’s Honor Roll Is One Town’s Lonely Sentinel

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Saratoga, Saratoga County, Saratoga County History Center, Saratoga County History Roundtable, Wilton

Will Lewis: Interview With A Public Radio Pioneer

January 15, 2021 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast Will Lewis, president emeritus of the Los Angeles Press Club, recalls his early days in the 1960s at Boston University’s WBUR-FM in Boston, passage of the public broadcasting bill in Washington, his public radio career and the Patty Hearst kidnapping in California.  Podcast host Bob Cudmore worked for Lewis at WBUR in Boston in the 1960s on a nightly program, Newspaper of the Air. [Read more…] about Will Lewis: Interview With A Public Radio Pioneer

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Podcasts, Radio History

New Video Series Addresses Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat

January 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Horn Players 1983 by Jean-Michel BasquiatThe Broad, a contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles, has announced Time Decorated: The Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a three-part video series dedicated to the famed New York City artist. [Read more…] about New Video Series Addresses Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Filed Under: Arts, New York City Tagged With: art, New York City

Erie Canalway IMPACT! Grants Announced

January 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Erie CanalwayThe Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor has announced that 13 non-profit organizations and municipalities will receive Erie Canalway IMPACT! Grants in 2021 totaling $108,787. The grants advance vital work to preserve and showcase canal heritage, educate youth, and welcome all people to explore the canal in their local communities. [Read more…] about Erie Canalway IMPACT! Grants Announced

Filed Under: Western NY Tagged With: Erie Canal, Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor, Grants

A Shaker Museum Call for Woodwork

January 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

in union remotelyThe Shaker Museum has announced a call for woodwork for the new online exhibit “In Union, Remotely.” All submissions should draw inspiration from the Shakers’ values or way of life, which the participants can learn more about in Shaker Museum’s comprehensive online collection. [Read more…] about A Shaker Museum Call for Woodwork

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: exhibits, Mount Lebanon Shaker Museum

Colonial Canandaigua In War And Peace

January 14, 2021 by Brian Barrett 1 Comment

typical Native American villageNew York’s Finger Lakes Region was well known to many Revolutionary War veterans as a place of both strife and potential. Strife because of conflict with Indigenous people, and great potential for lush productive farmland.

Soldiers witnessed both ends of the spectrum first-hand. [Read more…] about Colonial Canandaigua In War And Peace

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Canandaigua, Finger Lakes, Haudenosaunee, Lake Ontario, Military History, Native American History, Ontario County, Phelps and Gorham Tract, Sullivan_Clinton Expedition, Treaty of Canandaigua

The ‘Turkish Captivity’ of Jacob Leisler and the Susannah

January 14, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Landing en mishandeling van gevangenen in AlgiersThroughout the early modern era, North African raiders known as Barbary Corsairs, trolled Europe’s coasts from the Aegean Sea to the Netherlands and as far north as Iceland in search of European slaves. American ships were among their victims.

On October 8th, 1677, Algerian Corsairs boarded New York City merchant Jacob Leisler’s ship Susannah in the English Channel and captured Leisler along with his crew, two stepsons, nephew, and a passenger. [Read more…] about The ‘Turkish Captivity’ of Jacob Leisler and the Susannah

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Jacob Leisler Institute

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