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New York Boaters: Got Your Boating Safety Certificate Yet?
As of January 1, 2025, all New York motorboat operators – regardless of age – must have a boating safety…
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Two New Adirondack History Books Published
Writer and wilderness adventurer Erik Schlimmer has produced two new Adirondack history books. The heftier one, 510-page Wicked Awesome Adirondack…
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Records Reveal Jimmy Carter’s Legacy, Time In Schenectady
Following his death Sunday, the legacy of the United States’ longest-lived president, Jimmy Carter, will be the topic of much…
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Historic Business Preservation Registry Tops 200 Listings
The New York State Historic Business Preservation Registry, managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic…
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A Sunken Lake George Car and the Apollo Theatre
What does a sunken auto in Lake George, New York and New York City’s Apollo Theatre have in common? Well,…
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Robert Moses State Park’s Midcentury Modern Designs
Foremost among new state park developments in the 1950s was the 1959 completion of a new state park on Barnhart…
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New Warming Hut Opens at John Boyd Thacher State Park
The Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) has opened the Hop Field Warming Hut at John Boyd…
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New Yorkers at the Massacre at Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, the deadliest mass shooting in American history took place at near Wounded Knee Creek (Čhaŋkpé Ópi…
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Poetry: Coyotes – New York Almanack
Coyotes We call it a howl,but it’s a bark, a screech—a vicious shriek,the sound of murder. It goes on for…
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Trekking After Thoreau in the Berkshires and Catskills
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), born in Concord, Massachusetts, is an unexpected yet fitting figure in New York’s literary landscape. Though…
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