The United States Postal Service will issued the 45th Black Heritage stamp on January 26th, 2022 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. in honor of Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Native American sculptor who gained international recognition.
Edmonia Lewis was born in 1844 to an Ojibwa/Chippewa woman from Albany and a former enslaved man from Haiti. Both parents died when Wildfire, as she was called, was young. She went to live with her mother’s sisters. In later years her brother Samuel supported her and in 1856 she entered New York Central College. She then went to Oberlin College in Ohio from 1859 to 1863. [Read more…] about Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored With Black Heritage Postal Stamp
Collecting tools and household wares associated with 19th century hop farming has been a hobby of Al Bullard and Dot Willsey for decades.
The 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest is set for Saturday, September 18th and will feature Senator Rachel May (NYS District 53), who will describe the tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic barns bill introduced in the New York State Senate (S.6042) by Senator Michelle Hinchey of Saugerties on March 31st, and by Assemblymember Didi Barrett (A.6947) from Hudson on April 14th. 
Madison County Hop Fest volunteers who have raised awareness of the agricultural hop houses have called the region of New York State that raised hops “The MMOOOSCH Country” to recognize the counties of Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego, Schoharie, Chenango, and Herkimer, which produced most of the hops exported from the United States in the 19th Century.