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Saturday, April 20, 2024 REPAIR CAFE: Rensselaer Repair Café is offering a community repair café on April 20 from 10am to 2pm at Robert C. Parker School, 4254 NY Route 43, North Greenbush. We welcome all broken items, but examples of things we can help you repair include: clothing, furniture, electrical appliances, toys, bicycles and […]

Friday, April 19, 2024 LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEETING: The Troy Public Library is holding the following meeting: 1pm, Outreach Committee. KNIT & CROCHET GROUP: Join the Troy Public Library for a bi-weekly stitching group from 10 to 11 am on every first and third Friday of the month. Whether you have experience knitting or crocheting or […]

"It's part of our history, part of our heritage, and we're celebrating it this year," Ken Wise, former president of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, said.

What is the purpose of studying the past? A lawsuit against a Texas historical organization was really, both sides say, about how the narrative arc of history will bend in the future.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

The club started nearly 10 years before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established and carries a century of adventures and activism.

William “Bill” Van Kirk, 86, of Marshalltown, Iowa, passed away Thursday, July 27, 2023, at The Willows of Marshalltown under the care of Hospice of the Mid

Mount LeConte is the Great Smoky Mountains' third-highest peak, and the idea for its famous lodge started with Paul Adams and his dog, Cumberland Jack.

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

Frank Bohn, a columnist from the New York Times, visits Mount Le Conte in 1925 to gather info and capture photos of Smoky Mountain flora and fauna.