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Adirondack Voices: Residents Speaking Out For Environmental Protection

September 12, 2023 by Lorraine Duvall Leave a Comment

Adirondack Voices newsletter from the Residents Committee to Protect the AdirondacksI recently came across copies of Adirondack Voices from the 1990s, published by the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA). This organization was founded in 1990 by full-time residents of the Adirondack Park intent on trying to keep some peace in the Adirondacks.

RCPA believed that the integrity and economic viability of the Adirondack communities they lived and worked in could be enhanced while preserving their unique wilderness and wild forest landscape. [Read more…] about Adirondack Voices: Residents Speaking Out For Environmental Protection

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, APA, Clinton County, development, Environmental History, Essex County, Franklin County, Hamilton County, Herkimer COunty, John Warren, Journalism, Lewis County, Oneida County, Political History, Protect the Adirondacks, Publishing, Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks, Ron Stafford, Saratoga County, Warren County, wilderness

Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States

September 9, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828Allison M. Stagg’s first book, Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828 (Penn State University Press, 2023) details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. [Read more…] about Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States

Filed Under: Arts, Books, Events, History Tagged With: Art History, illustrators, Material Culture, Newspapers, Penn State University Press, Political History, Printing, Publishing

Gaslight Foster: Old New York Storyteller & Social Geographer

September 6, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

"Prostitution: ‘Hooking a Victim’" engraving from George G. Foster's New York by Gas-Light, 1850.Having spent three weeks in Boston where he enjoyed an enthusiastic reception, Charles Dickens arrived on February 12, 1842, in South Street, Lower Manhattan, on the packet New York from New Haven. The city depressed him.

In his travelogue American Notes, he contrasted sun-filled Broadway with the filth of The Five Points. In the district’s narrow alleys the visitor was confronted with all that is “loathsome, drooping, and decayed.” Dickens described New York as a city of sunshine and gloom. [Read more…] about Gaslight Foster: Old New York Storyteller & Social Geographer

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Crime and Justice, Horace Greeley, Journalism, Manhattan, New York City, Newspapers, Opera, poverty, prostitution, Publishing, Social History, The Bowery, Urban History, Vice, Writing

Lady Liberty as Muse: A Dutch Writer’s Love for the United States

August 25, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Cover of the first edition of Pietje Bell in Amerika, 1929.My love for America started at an early age, when I pinched a book from my older brother: Pietje Bell in Amerika. I still remember the cover: a jolly Dutch newspaper boy with the skyline of New York City in the background. It pointed to the idea the book conveyed: the land of limitless opportunities, from paperboy to billionaire, a new start, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. [Read more…] about Lady Liberty as Muse: A Dutch Writer’s Love for the United States

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Academia, Chautauqua County, Chautauqua Lake, Dutch History, Journalism, Literature, Long Island, Manhattan, Netherlands, New York City, Publishing, Writing

New York State Author and Poet Announced

August 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

New York State Author and PoetThe New York State Writers Institute has announced Jacqueline Woodson has been named the new State Author and Patricia Spears Jones the new State Poet.

The citations, established in 1985 by Governor Mario M. Cuomo and the State Legislature to promote fiction and poetry in New York, are awarded biennially under the aegis of the New York State Writers Institute. Awardees serve for two years in their honorary positions and each receives a $10,000 honorarium. [Read more…] about New York State Author and Poet Announced

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, New York City Tagged With: Albany, Albany Book Festival, Albany County, Brooklyn, Literature, New York City, NYS Writers Institute, Poetry, Publishing, SUNY Albany, Writing

1955: A New Yorker Covers The Emmett Till Murder Trial

August 10, 2023 by Anthony F. Hall 2 Comments

1955 Associated Press photo of the jury at the trial of Emmett Till’s killers. Rob F. Hall (with pipe) can be seen taking notes in the press galleryIn 1955, my father traveled from New York City to Mississippi, where he was born and where his own father had been a newspaper publisher, to cover the trial of the two white men who had been indicted for the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy visiting from Chicago. [Read more…] about 1955: A New Yorker Covers The Emmett Till Murder Trial

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Chicago, Civil Rights, Journalism, Lake George, Political History, Publishing, Warren County, Warrensburg

1820s Literary Rivalry: Manhattan Versus Boston

August 7, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

Francis Guy's "Tontine Coffee House" (with flag on top), 1797On November 2, 1820, the city of New York‘s Chamber of Commerce placed an advertisement in the Commercial Advertiser and other newspapers inviting merchant clerks to meet in Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street and discuss forming of an organization that would be similar to Boston’s Mercantile Library (founded earlier that same year).

Nearly two hundred and fifty young men responded to the notice and joined the meeting which led to the creation of Manhattan’s Mercantile Library Association. [Read more…] about 1820s Literary Rivalry: Manhattan Versus Boston

Filed Under: Arts, Food, History, New York City Tagged With: Boston, Cultural History, Diary Industry, Edgar Alan Poe, Immigration, Intellectual History, James Fenimore Cooper, Libraries, Literature, Manhattan, Massachusetts, New Netherland, New York City, Publishing, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Writing

Adirondack Center for Writing Celebrating 25 Years

July 23, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Audience clapping (courtesy Adirondack Center for Writing)The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) is celebrating its 25th anniversary as part of the North Country’s arts community. Their diverse programs and events offered year-round reflect a commitment to creating a space for writers young and old, to bringing the best of the literary world to the Adirondacks, and to creating a strong community of writers, readers, and storytellers across the region. [Read more…] about Adirondack Center for Writing Celebrating 25 Years

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts Tagged With: Adirondack Center for Writing, Adirondacks, Literature, Poetry, Publishing, Writing

A True Tempest: American Passion for Shakespeare & The Fate of a First Folio

June 27, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

Loss of the steam ship Arctic (lithograph by N. Currier). This year marks the 400th anniversary of the printing of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, one of the key books in the English speaking world.

Published seven years after the playwright’s death, many plays that were never printed in his lifetime, including Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar, might otherwise not have survived. [Read more…] about A True Tempest: American Passion for Shakespeare & The Fate of a First Folio

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Archives, Cultural History, Libraries, Literature, Manhattan, Maritime History, Massachusetts, New York City, Performing Arts, Pilgrims, Publishing, Shipwrecks, Steamboating, Theatre, Writing

Back Number Budd: A 19th Century One-Man Newspaper Archive

June 1, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

New York Merchants’ Exchange Reading Room in the 1860s“Back number” in contemporary parlance means “back issue.” Today we take for granted the availability of old newspapers and other periodicals, as well as their invaluable glimpse into our past. But this was not the case in the 19th century. [Read more…] about Back Number Budd: A 19th Century One-Man Newspaper Archive

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Archives, Black History, Civil War, Journalism, Legal History, Manhattan, Media, New York City, New York Public Library, Newspapers, Publishing, Roosevelt Island Historical Society

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