Health
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Anne Vanderbilt: Three Husbands, Four Children, and One Sutton Place
On July 22, 1920, with his wife, daughter, and two sons at his bedside, railroad tycoon and financier William Kissam…
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Whimsical Winter Notions For A Snowy Day
It’s a whimsical winter notion. “Some imaginative and wonderfully learned German scholars tell us that every snow flake is inhabited…
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Crossing the Neutral Zone! A New Revolutionary War Board Game
The education staff at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site have created an original board game, “Crossing the Neutral Zone!”…
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Edward Livingston Trudeau and the Saranac Laboratory
In the late 19th century, when tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in America, a gravely ill physician arrived in the…
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire & The Little Falls Textile Strike
National tragedies have historically been the catalysts for massive shifts in matters such as culture and law. One such tragedy…
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Lake George Wooden Nickels & The William Johnson Bicentennial
It was 1938 and the United States was in the midst of the “depression within a depression” a particularly difficult…
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to…
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Mabel’s 1908 Diary: Art, Trig, and Sweets
In 1908, while attending Syracuse University, Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) kept a diary which is being published each week. Monday, February…
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Nighttime High Peaks Rescue Missions Keep Forest Rangers Busy
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State locating…
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River Ice: Seeds, Frazil, and Flocs
Mile-long Trout Brook cuts downhill through heavily bouldered glacial moraine. Like any woodland brook, it features waterfalls, cascades, pools, and…
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