TROY, N.Y. — The Uncle Sam memorial pavilion in Prospect Park got a much-needed facelift on Friday morning thanks to the Guardians of History, a citizen activist group whose mission is to bring ...
A man from Troy says restoring photographs from more than 100 years ago started out as an accident. John Bulmer is a photo historian and commercial photographer. He travels to antique shops and flea ...
Before Native Americans or Europeans settled in the Troy area, it was a river plain filled with oak and yellow (Pitch) pine, probably similar to Albany’s Pine Bush. The pine barrens environment was ...
Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so, the ...
A selection of kitchen tools was offered in a coupon book from the late 19th or early 20th century. Bread recipes in “The Deconness Home Cookbook” are interspersed with unattributed quotes that ...
A self-portrait in a mirror of Troy writer Amy Halloran in the library of the Hart Cluett Museum, home to the archives of the Rensselaer County Historical Society. She is writer-in-residence at the ...
The history of bread in Troy is a microcosm of the history of American bread. The ingredients and methods used here — the flour, ovens and leaveners — reflected national habits and, sometimes, as with ...
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