Tag: New York

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    Where Dutch and Black history meet

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    Groups join forces to save long-vacant house near Hudson The house built by the Dutch colonist Jan Van Hoesen in the early 1700s later became the home of the Quaker abolitionist Charles Marriott and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Now two local history groups have joined forces to preserve the structure, which has read more

    Where Dutch and Black history meet
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    The power of flowers

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    Moira Krum displays some of the dropper bottles of flower essences she uses in her therapy practice. Scott Langley photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer HILLSDALE, N.Y. Moira Krum smiles when asked to explain the philosophy of flower essence therapy. “Plants have been medicine for millennia,” she said. “They’re actually nothing new in terms of read more

    The power of flowers
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    From the Hudson Valley, a prolific orator

    The regularly scheduled 8:30 p.m. broadcast of The Navy Band on Schenectady radio station WGY was pre-empted on Saturday, May 2, 1925 by the 91st birthday celebration of one of New York’s most prolific public speakers. “Chauncey Depew, nonagenarian, will address the audience of WGY, Schenectady, and WJZ, New York, Saturday evening,” The Glens Falls read more

    From the Hudson Valley, a prolific orator
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    Losing a place that challenged minds

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    As Simon’s Rock leaves the Berkshires, town debates future of campus   Students cross a bridge as they head toward the library and classroom buildings on the wooded campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Mass. Scott Langley photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. On a cold, clear day read more

    Losing a place that challenged minds
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    Farm to fashion

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    N.Y. backs efforts to link fiber producers to bigger markets   Mary Jeanne Packer, the founder and co-owner of the Battenkill Fibers mill in Greenwich, NY., checks through some of the yarn the mill makes from locally raised wool. Joan K. Lentini photo   By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y. Just as the farm-to-table movement read more

    Farm to fashion
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    From Claverack to the frontier

    Columbia County native played key roles in early days of Arizona, Alaska   Postal Inspector John P. Clum, atop a mule, talks with miners in Nome, Alaska, in 1898. Clum, who grew up in Columbia County, N.Y., ran a newspaper in territorial Arizone before heading north. Photo courtesy of The Tombstone Epitaph   By PAUL read more

    From Claverack to the frontier
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    In northern New York, the election that wasn’t

      Editorial April 2025         In the great campaign for the special election that wasn’t, voters in New York’s northernmost congressional district might have revealed just how much our politics have been transformed by the arrival of the second Trump presidency. But any new message from the voters remains on ice for read more

    In northern New York, the election that wasn’t
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    Amid drought, a village runs dry

    Some see Whitehall’s water crisis as a warning about climate risks Whitehall Mayor Francis Putorti stands inside the village’s water treatment plant in late January. The village water system shut down for two days in December after a combination of drought and a leaking pipe drew Whitehall’s reservoir down to dangerously low levels. Joan K. read more

    Amid drought, a village runs dry
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    Dreamlike images in black and white

    Hudson Hall show gathers area artist Michel Goldberg’s monotypes Michel Goldberg’s “After Bertoldo di Giovanni 1” is among the monotypes on view in the artist’s new solo exhibition at Hudson Hall. Courtesy photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. The mysterious monotypes of the Hudson Valley artist Michel Goldberg are the focus of a read more

    Dreamlike images in black and white
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    A ’24 campaign transformed by radio

    People gathered on the second floor of Wiley’s dry goods store in downtown Glens Falls to listen, via radio, to the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge on March 4, 1925. It was another in a series of events through which Coolidge pioneered the use of this new medium in politics. “No one can contemplate current read more

    A ’24 campaign transformed by radio