Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 3 – Broadway
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 […]
Author: Carl Johnson
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 2 – Municipal
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 Tablet No. 1: Fort Orange
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 […]
What Happened to the Burdett-Coutts Marker?
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 […]
Thomas H. Sands Pennington, Black Pharmacist
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: […]
Scotia Plans Insane Fourth
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 […]
William H. Johnson Talks Emancipation
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 […]
The Guests of Edwin Forrest
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 […]
The Life of William Kimbol 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 […]
G.W. Van Slyke & Horton – Peter Schuyler Cigars
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 […]