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Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 3 – Broadway

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Carl Johnson

Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886. The Committee on Monumenting and Decoration chose to commemorate Broadway, then as now […]

Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 2 – Municipal

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Carl Johnson

Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886. This was the tablet that was described by the Committee on Monumenting and […]

Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 1: Fort Orange

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 Carl Johnson

Our last entry talked about the Albany Bicentennial celebration and the fate of a marker meant to commemorate the Black citizens of Albany that may never have gotten to its […]

Albany

What Happened to the Burdett-Coutts Marker?

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Carl Johnson

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 […]

Albany

Thomas H. Sands Pennington, Black Pharmacist

August 17, 2020August 18, 2020 Carl Johnson

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: […]

Schenectady

Scotia Plans Insane Fourth

July 2, 2020July 1, 2020 Carl Johnson

From 1912, we ran across this article impugning the sanity of our original hometown and have just been waiting for it to be seasonal and/or timely again. So here we […]

Albany

William H. Johnson Talks Emancipation

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Carl Johnson

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 […]

Philadelphia

The Guests of Edwin Forrest

April 12, 2020April 14, 2020 Carl Johnson

Branching out a little bit, because it’s our understanding that Philadelphia has a little bit of history, too, and we’ve wondered about this one for a while now. Taking a […]

Family History

The Life of William Kimbol Johnson

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Carl Johnson

Updating my genealogy software for the first time in several years made me look at the state of some of my research. For starters, I’ve posted an updated version of […]

Peter Schuyler ad 1926
Albany

G.W. Van Slyke & Horton – Peter Schuyler Cigars

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Carl Johnson

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 […]

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