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SYRACUSE - The William G. Pomeroy Foundation is accepting applications for its Legends & Lore® Marker Grant Program, which helps communities commemorate their local folklore and legends, and promote cultural

Virginia presidential sites new marker commemorates revolutionary figures meetings at fragile moment in U.S. history. The Marquis de Lafayettes 1824 visit, for nations 50th anniversary, renewed citizens’ faith in republics

Salt potatoes, the tasty staple served up at Central New York barbecues and fairs for generations, will soon be immortalized with its very own historic marker. The historic salt potato marker is the first to be funded through Hungry for History, a brand-new grant program created by the Syracuse-based Pomeroy Foundation to help communities across the United States spotlight their local and regional foods. The salt potato sign reads - Salt Potatoes. Popularized by salt industry workers, potatoes...

New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore MARTHA QUILLIN, The News & Observer April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Poor Naomi Wise: spurned by her lover, fished lifeless from a river, the crime of her North Carolina murder unpunished. The story of her violent end in the spring of 1807 has been told and retold millions of times through one of America’s best-known folk songs, with varying themes. Was she killed by the father of her unborn child so that he w...

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Have a tip for the newsroom, press release, local event listing or digital content to share? Send it here. Support our mission by visiting patreon.com/fl1 and becoming a monthly subscriber. The Friends of the Three Bears announced a $4,400 Pomeroy Fund for NYS History award to improve technology and climate control at  the newly designated Seneca County Tourism Office and the Papa Bear Cultural  Center. The Pomeroy Fund for NYS History, a partnership between the William ...

Shelby approved for Civil Rights marker Sixty-one years ago, Shelby students took a stand by organizing a sit-in at a local drugstore.  On Feb. 18, 1960, approximately 70 Black students from Cleveland High School went from store to store requesting the same service as white patrons. They were refused and had doors shut in their faces. A sit-in formed at what was once Smith’s Drugs on West Warren Street.  The passive action ended with several arrests.  Those students, and the importance...