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New York State Summer School of the Arts

January 6, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The School of Media ArtsApplications are currently being accepted for the 2021 New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA). The four-week summer program will be held fully online to ensure safety during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Tuition will be free for all students who qualify, fostering equity by allowing students who may not have been able to participate otherwise. Students will be able to experience intensive work and interaction with internationally acclaimed artists and performing arts companies. [Read more…] about New York State Summer School of the Arts

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: art, Dance, Education, Media, New York State Summer School of the Arts, Theatre

Melvil Dewey: Efficient, Inventive, Annoyingly Bigoted

November 9, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Book purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

A new children’s book, The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey (Calkins Creek, 2020) by Alexis O’Neill and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, is a colorful biography about the creator and implementer of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, who had a significant and lasting impact in libraries but ended his career in disgrace for his racist and sexist views. [Read more…] about Melvil Dewey: Efficient, Inventive, Annoyingly Bigoted

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Capital-Saratoga, History, Western NY Tagged With: Books, Education, Libraries

A Lively New History of Barnard College Published

October 19, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

a college of her ownBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

The new book A College of Her Own: The History of Barnard (Columbia University Press, 2020) by Robert McCaughey offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard College from its beginnings to the present day. [Read more…] about A Lively New History of Barnard College Published

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Barnard College, Books, Columbia University, Education, New York City, Political History, womens history

Grad Students Study Jay Heritage Preservation Issues

September 29, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

members of the studio at JHCColumbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) is offering a studio course this fall semester titled “Radical Re-construction: Materializing Social Justice at the Country Estate of John Jay, a Founder of American Democracy.”

The studio is being led by Jorge Otero-Pailos, the school’s head of historic preservation and a member of JHC’s board of trustees, and Mark Rakatansky, an adjunct associate professor at the school and principal of Mark Rakatansky Studio. [Read more…] about Grad Students Study Jay Heritage Preservation Issues

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Columbia University, Education, Historic Preservation, Jay Heritage Center, Landscape Architecture

Fort Ticonderoga Digital Campaign Continues into Fall

September 1, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Orwell Light HorseFort Ticonderoga is continuing its 2020 Digital Campaign, a virtual experience featuring interactive programming, engaging lectures series, and creative at-home educational activities and resources, into the fall.

Upcoming Digital Campaign Events Include: [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga Digital Campaign Continues into Fall

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Education, Fort Ticonderoga, Military History, Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga Presents 2-Day Homeschool Event

August 31, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

fort ticonderogaFort Ticonderoga is set to host a Two-Day Homeschool Event for homeschool students and their parents on Thursday, September 10th and Friday, September 11th, 2020 from 9:30 am to 5 pm. [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga Presents 2-Day Homeschool Event

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Education, Fort Ticonderoga, Military History, Ticonderoga

Fresh Air Schools: Teaching Outdoors For Public Health

August 10, 2020 by Amy Catania Leave a Comment

bassistsAs autumn approaches, schools are thinking about ways to keep students safe by maximizing time outdoors. The concept of outside instruction is not new.

Leading up to the Second World War, open air schools were built in the United States and Europe to protect children from tuberculosis.

In Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondacks, where temperatures in the winter tend to stay well below freezing, some children attended unheated, open air classrooms. [Read more…] about Fresh Air Schools: Teaching Outdoors For Public Health

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History Tagged With: Education, Historic Saranac Lake, Performing Arts, Public Health, Saranac Lake

To Identify The Dead: World War Two Student ‘Dog Tags’

July 15, 2020 by Theresa LaSalle Leave a Comment

Buffalo students practise an air raid drill during the Second World War Buffalo NewsDuring the Civil War personal identification of soldiers killed and severely wounded in combat was daunting, because of inadequate record keeping in both the Union and the Confederate armies.

An early attempt to ID them was called “name discs” or “soldier pins,” but these met with limited success. Historians estimate that 50% of those killed in the Civil War were simply marked unknown. [Read more…] about To Identify The Dead: World War Two Student ‘Dog Tags’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Civil War, Education, Military History, New York City, World War Two

Gilder Lehrman Institute Online History Camp

July 11, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Gilder Lehrman Institute logoThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is set to offer a free online History Camp this summer for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Each class — led by National History Teacher of the Year Mary Huffman — will provide students and their families with an immersive, entertaining, and hands-on opportunity to explore United States history. [Read more…] about Gilder Lehrman Institute Online History Camp

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Education, Gilder Lehrman Institute, New York State Museum

First Woman Named To Lead Ranger School

June 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Ranger School logoThe SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has named Dr. Mariann Garrison-Johnston director of its Ranger School.

She is the first woman to lead the Ranger School, which is located in the Adirondack Park at Wanakena, on the shore of Cranberry Lake in the town of Fine, St. Lawrence County. [Read more…] about First Woman Named To Lead Ranger School

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Education, Ranger School, SUNY ESF

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