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May 11, 2021 GLOVERSVILLE — The Fulton County Historical Society, 237 Kingsboro Ave., will partner again with the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site for a virtual program exchange. These programs will be streamed live via the FCHS YouTube page, according to a news release. David Brooks, education director, SCSHS, will present DeWitt’s Duel: Political Rivalry at Ten Paces at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on the life of DeWitt Clinton. Recognized now as the “Father of the Erie Canal,” New York state governor and former mayor of New York City, Clinton had tended to personal and political rival...

Meet John Wilkinson, a ‘man of uncommon vision,’ who brought the railroad to Syracuse Posted Apr 28, 2021 A 1920 photograph of the reproduction the "DeWiit Clinton." Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori Facebook Share By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association One Hundred Eighty-Six Years Ago: In the spring of 1834, Syracuse was one of many small, but growing villages that had sprung up along the Erie Canal since the completion of the first section in 1820. The engineering marvel of its day, the Erie Canal drastical...

Origin In April 2021, a fascinating segment on the CBS “This Morning” show, as well as a widely shared tweet, highlighted the rich history behind the song “Strange Fruit” — an anti-racist anthem made famous by Billie Holiday with her 1939 recording and subsequent live performances. In an April 25 tweet, Mary Rambaran-Olm, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, wrote: “Let me blow your minds. The writer of Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol), was James Baldwin’s high school teacher. He later adopted two boys after their parents (the Rosenbergs) were executed for being com...

The Indestructible Townhouse Over 211 years, the Dickey House in Lower Manhattan has survived everything New York City has thrown at it. Soon it will become part of a new home for Public School 150. April 9, 2021, 8:00 a.m. ET When it comes to architectural survivors amid Manhattan’s eternal churn of destruction and redevelopment, it is hard to top the 211-year-old, four-story brick landmark at 67 Greenwich Street in the financial district. Originally the townhouse of the merchant Robert Dickey, the decorous Federal-style dwelling was built in 1810 near the island’s southern tip, when nea...

Stan Lee's legacy is complicated - this new book casts a shadow on it   Stan Lee poses in New York, June 15, 1978. (JTA) - Stan Lee, arguably the most famous American comic book creator, died at age 95 in 2018. Honoring his Jewish identity, many evoked the phrase "may his memory be a blessing" (coming from the Hebrew "zichrono l'bracha") when reporting on his passing.   Just what this memory looks like, however, and what it should look like, is a topic that is increasingly up for debate.  To most people with a passing knowledge of comic books, Lee - who may be best known to the general pu...