Peloubet’s Balloon
While researching the Albany Bicentennial tablets, we tripped on the most curious little snippet in Joel Munsell’s Annals of Albany, in an article dated April 26, 1819: “A Mr. Peloubet […]
While researching the Albany Bicentennial tablets, we tripped on the most curious little snippet in Joel Munsell’s Annals of Albany, in an article dated April 26, 1819: “A Mr. Peloubet […]
Taking a little break from the bicentennial markers to do some cleanup, but they’ll be back soon. Years back now, we wrote a post about the incredible embroidery of Catherine […]
Last time we wrote about the Albany Bicentennial Tablet commemorating the first church in Albany, and we noted that in addition to the two successive church structures that sat in […]
Two notes: One, throughout this article there are variable spellings of Burdett-Coutts, and when quoting, I’ve reflected the spelling used in the source I’m quoting at the time. Two, of […]
I started out to write a little bit about Dr. Thomas Elkins, one of the most remarkable and accomplished African American residents of Albany. I was challenged by two things: […]
In honor of the sudden interest in Juneteenth, commemorating the day the belated word of emancipation reached slaves in Texas, I went off in search of whether there had been […]
Scrolling through some old newspapers, this ad caught our eye — not only for its odd syntax (I mean, I guess I wouldn’t want to get in front of a […]
We’ve been fascinated by this one for some time, for reasons not entirely clear even to us. We don’t usually publish true crime and the like, but now and then […]
In talking about Lebbeus Burton of Troy, the druggist whose fortune founded an orphans’ home that is still in use today, we touched on the seemingly unlikely cure of Dr. […]
There was a time when the organization of the Albany police department was a very hot political issue. That time was 1896. Back in the days when there were two […]