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The New York History Blog
02.07.2025
Washington County is an area rich in historical and cultural significance along NY's border with VT, between Lake Champlain and Lake George.
In the historical fiction Salt People of the Cloud Houses, Fawn Brokaw Doyle explores Sarah Rapalje's life in Dutch Manhattan.
In the 19th century belly dancing became a craze and “Oriental theaters” opened in various cities. Dancers titillated audiences, alarming Victorians.
Most ticks biting New York residents are blacklegged ticks (deer ticks). A species on its way however is the Asian longhorned tick.
John Langdon Sullivan, son of a Massachusetts Governor, was a steamboat inventor who tried to establish towing on the Hudson River in 1820s.
01.07.2025
The Brockport Pedestrian Bridge, a new pedestrian bridge over the Erie Canal in the Village of Brockport, Monroe County, has been completed.
Before establishing his infamous and beloved “little tramp” screen persona, Charlie Chaplin made a few dozen slapstick shorts.
The northeastern Indigenous bark canoe, generally built of birch or elm, was an efficient lightweight vessel that could be easily portaged.
Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown, NY, will present a special program on the "American Revolution in the Champlain Valley."
The 6th Attorney General of New York State, Ambrose Spencer was born on December 13, 1765, in Salisbury, Connecticut.
29.06.2025
It’s hard to resist taking A shortcut to reach A destination or an objective But every so often there is A bitter price to pay for Cutting corners
28.06.2025
The latest Ben Franklin's World podcast explores the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, his education, medical practice and influence.
Menace of Prosperity argues urban economics and politics are shaped by the “fiscal imagination” of policymakers, activists, advocates, & others.
A fish can have 3 different mouth locations: terminal (located at the end of the head), inferior (opening downwards), or superior (opening upwards).
Microplastic pollution is a vast problem, but everyone can make conscious decisions to reduce the use of single-use plastics.
Adirondack Architectural Heritage will show the documentary Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.
27.06.2025
NYS DEC Conservation Officers made several wildlife rescues recently, including seven ducklings from a storm drain and a bald eagle.
This fall, the Brooklyn Museum will open "Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea" in the Museum's Education Center.
A speech given in Syracuse, NY, by former President Harry S. Truman in 1952 while campaigned for Democrats during the election of 1952.
New York City has 157 historic districts and historic district extensions, 16 of which are located in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo.
The National Archives at College Park (also known as Archives II) has announced it is closing its doors to the public on July 7th.
26.06.2025
Forest Rangers recovered the body of a hiker who fell at Kaaterskill Falls and conducted several searches & rescues of injured hikers around NYS.
The ADK Talks podcast features updates on loon research, the Loon Census, and the challenges of lead tackle, climate change, & development.
The story of a 1973 discovery of two large concentric circles, about 18 to 20 feet in diameter, embedded into a parking lot of a Glen Lake restaurant.
In 1908 the daughter of a Polish family, Wladyslawa, was sent to America to marry a man she had never met - that is not him in the wedding photo.
Trump regime cuts to Humanities NY have led to them cancelling all active grants and letting go of six team members — two-thirds of full-time staff.
24.06.2025
New York ship and boat builders have created an large variety of vessel types. Read about their history and construction in the New York Almanack.
Woodchuck Lodge in a remote part of the Catskills in Delaware County, NY, was home to John Burroughs and will be hosting several talks.
A poacher recently shot and killed a well-known whitetail buck nicknamed “King Louie” in Johnstown, NY, it could have been a record buck.
An angler was located stuck and treading water in the Carlls River in the village of Babylon on the South Shore of Long Island.
The day after George Washington was made Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, Joseph Warren was made a Major General.
23.06.2025
In 1888, William Keay immigrated from Scotland, settling in New York State where we worked for almost 30 years as a landscape gardener.
Silver Chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana) are medium-sized minnows last seen during surveys of the Lake Erie watershed in 1929 - they could be back.
The nine-mile long Putnam County Trailway is primarily on right-of-way lands of the former Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad.
Giant steam locomotives once pulled freight cars, sometimes several blocks long, through Manhattan - including along Death Avenue.
The American Battlefield Trust has launched a campaign to save 58 acres of Battle of Johnstown battlefield land that connects with Johnson Hall.
22.06.2025
You blithely ignored Numerous warnings From your friends Until disaster struck You have no one to blame But yourself because They told you so
21.06.2025
The Adirondack Experience is welcoming four artists — Jacoub Reyes, Iakonikonriiosta, Tom Bonamici, and Réka Szabó — as artists-in-Residency.
Eastern box turtles have high-domed shells festooned with colorful yellow or orange markings, and stout legs built for walking.
The popular Garden Trailhead Parking Lot in the Adirondack High Peaks will be closed June 23, 24, and 25 for major repairs to the road.