The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has started a public comment period for threatened and endangered species draft regulations. While…
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In settlements along the Hudson River Valley and in Albany on the hill where the New York State Capitol sits today, enslaved…
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The Ausable Marsh Wildlife Management Area in Peru, Clinton County, NY, offers 660 acres of wildlife habitats, ranging from marsh and sandy…
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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society’s (NYG&B) Church of the Transfiguration records are the newest, large-scale, searchable edition to their online…
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month and in celebration this episode of A New York Minute In History Podcast…
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Try this 19th century folk cure if you dare, but I think I will abstain: “An excellent gargle is made of one…
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Spring has sprung! And so has New York Almanack‘s annual fundraising drive. It’s always a struggle, but for several months our Rally.org…
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The Good Friday Agreement dampened sectarian conflict in Ireland and brought stability to Northern Ireland, but the peace deal was challenged by…
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Years ago, a hitchhiker found a baby red squirrel beneath a tree and brought it to the nature center where I worked…
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On Christmas Eve 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued orders to the Confederate Army “that…