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The automobile and the highways built to accommodate them gradually but inevitably displaced the nation’s light rail systems,...

All canals are a series of ponds, at different water stages, or elevations. These elevation changes are transitioned...

On October 5th four Forest Rangers, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Department, Lewis County Emergency Management and the Castorland,...

Black Poetry Day is observed each year on the birthday of Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), America’s first published...

The canal system of New York State is a complex network of natural and man-made waterways that connect...

Albany’s Ira Harris (1802-1875) – judge, Senator, law school founder, confidant of Abraham Lincoln – was also an...

New York’s America 250 Commission is finalizing its plans for the state’s commemoration next year. In the meantime,...

King George’s War and the Thirty-Year Peace: The Third Contest for North America (Westholme Publishing, 2025) continues the contest...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles...

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