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The Science Fiction Writer Next Door: P. Schuyler Miller
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Growing up, my family lived next to a four-unit apartment house in Scotia, one of those places that was oddly transient on a street of homes where people generally lived for decades. There were young couples just starting out, divorcees figuring out their next steps, old people at the end. An interesting mix. And…
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Old School Week: Mohawk School
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Because I don’t have any good photographs of the outside of my elementary school, I’ll start with this charming photograph of my kindergarten class inside the gym. This was the Mohawk School on Ten Broeck Street between Riverside and Sanders avenues. We’re shown here in the gymnasium/auditorium, on the risers we would also use…
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Old School Week: Scotia High School
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Hoxsie’s going old school this week. Real old school. Scotia, New York was a booming village in 1905 when it built its first high school, on First Street just two blocks up from the main street, Mohawk Avenue. It served as the high school until a new one was built on Sacandaga Road just…