History, Natural History & the Arts
The National Park Service announced last week that our national parks will no longer provide free admission on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
The park service removed the two official federal holidays that honor Black American history from its 2026 list of free entrance days — and added Donald Trump’s birthday. [Read more…] about National Park Service Cancels Free Admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth, Adds Trump’s Birthday
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 116,537 visitors to Saratoga National Historical Park in 2024 spent $8,200,000 in communities near the park.
That spending had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $10,383,000, according to the study. [Read more…] about Study: Saratoga Battlefield Visitors Spent $8M in 2024; Nationally NPS Visitors Spent $29B
On July 26, 1788, the Convention of the State of New York, meeting in Poughkeepsie, ratified the Constitution of the United States and, in doing so, was admitted to the new union as the eleventh of the original thirteen colonies joining together as the United States of America.
For New Yorkers, it had been an eventful year. [Read more…] about The African Burial Ground, Columbia University & Manhattan’s Grave-Robbers
The African Burial Ground National Monument is set to celebrate Black History Month throughout February 2020 with an array of activities and events. This year’s theme is African-Americans and the Vote.
The African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan. The site contains the remains of more than 400 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a small portion of what was the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent, some free, most enslaved.
[Read more…] about African Burial Ground Marking Black History Month, 10 Years
The African Burial Ground National Monument, the oldest and largest known excavated burial ground in North America for both free and enslaved Africans, was defaced with a racist slur on November 1.
Federal Protective Service officials have taken the lead on the investigation and provided clearance for National Park Service personnel to remove the racist slur that was written on a wayside sign at the monument. [Read more…] about Racial Slur Defaces African Burial Ground
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