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The legacy of Ida Yarbrough, activist and namesake in Albany FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6Capital City Commission members meet in Albany, New York - Grace Gustafson, William P. McGlone, John R. Hauf, and Mrs. Ida Yarbrough. March 02, 1965 (Bob Wilder/Times Union Archive)Bob Wilder/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of6Left to right: Frank Wills McCabe; Mrs. Ida Yarbrough; Frank Cox. June 16, 1962 (Times Union Archive)Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6Grace Gustafson and State Commission, New York State. Temporary State Commission meeting. Seated, Miss Grace E. Gustafson, Mrs. Ida Yarbrough. Standing: John C. Burdis, John C. Wyld, Reverend Vladimir E. Hartman. December 28, 1962 (Roberta Smith/Times Union Archive)Roberta Smith/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less ....
The legacy of Ida Yarbrough, activist and namesake in Albany FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Buy PhotoCapital City Commission members meet in Albany, New York - Grace Gustafson, William P. McGlone, John R. Hauf, and Mrs. Ida Yarbrough. March 02, 1965 (Bob Wilder/Times Union Archive)Bob Wilder/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of8Buy PhotoLeft to right: Frank Wills McCabe; Mrs. Ida Yarbrough; Frank Cox. June 16, 1962 (Times Union Archive)Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 4of8Buy PhotoGrace Gustafson and State Commission, New York State. Temporary State Commission meeting. Seated, Miss Grace E. Gustafson, Mrs. Ida Yarbrough. Standing: John C. Burdis, John C. Wyld, Reverend Vladimir E. Hartman. December 28, 1962 (Roberta Smith/Times Union Archive)Roberta Smith/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less ....
Don Rittner Another removal of Albany history hits the road By Don Rittner on December 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM
by Don Rittner
My first history/archeology project back in 1972 was relocating and preserving the Kings’s Highway, the first road between the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys that connected Albany (Fort Orange) to Skenectada (Schenectady). I took up the unfinished work of Schenectady City Historian William Efner who began this project back in the 1930s. Fortunately I was able to save a mile long section of the original sandy road when Mayor Corning purchased the first city Pine Bush Preserve back in the late 70s at my request. ....