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Staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Vote to Unionize
Staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan have voted by a 76% margin in a National Labor Relations…
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Martin Luther King’s Northern New York Legacy
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and if you lived through the 1960s, you’ll never forget that turbulent decade.…
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Martin Luther King In The Catskills, 1968
On March 25, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the keynote address at the annual Rabbinical Assembly Convention at…
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National Park Service Cancels Free Admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth, Adds Trump’s Birthday
The National Park Service announced last week that our national parks will no longer provide free admission on Martin Luther…
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Mabel Allen’s Diary: 1908 at Syracuse University
Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) grew up in the village of Adams in Jefferson County. Mabel, as she was known, first attended…
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Hello NY ALMK readers and a Happy New Year. If I could add here my encouragement to each of you…
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Gouverneur Morris: The Constitution’s Penman
Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a…
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Dutch Arms Dealers & Military Engineers in the Revolutionary War
Modern international law prohibits a neutral nation from supplying arms, ammunition, or equipment to any warring party, either directly or…
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A Turtle’s Life Beneath the Ice and Snow
For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes,…
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2025 Progress Towards Planting 25 Million Trees by 2033
Governor Kathy Hochul launched the 25 Million Trees by 2033 initiative during her 2024 State of the State Address to…
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