Created by artist Len Tantillo and led by Albany Waterway Chair BJ Costello, this project reimagines Albany’s historic connection to the Hudson River and Erie Canal through a transformative canal initiative.
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Jill Knapp of the Greenbush Historical Society and Cheryle Webber of the Dutch Settlers Society will present. They will talk about how the destruction
of the ancient city of Nijmegen Netherlands, Albany’s Sister City, during WWII by both German and Allied Forces, led to the start of Albany’s Annual Tulip Festival, and how the connection between the two cities continues today.
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Join Bill Ketzer for a brief history of Bethlehem and how parts of the town were gradually annexed by Albany over a century—including the South End, Buckingham Lake, Whitehall, Delaware Avenue South, and southern Pine Hills. Ketzer has served as Bethlehem’s official historian since 2013.
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Learn about how the local Watervliet Shakers and other nearby upstate groups sought new ways of defining community from the late 1700s into the mid 1800s. In the early years of the New Republic, there was a vibrant movement that came to be called The Great Awakening. Join Ann Sayers, a local independent scholar and author who has spent years researching the Believers who lived in “ Wisdom’s Valley,” as the Shaker community sometimes called itself, for this special event.
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Join City historian, author and Albany Firefighters Museum Director Tony Opalka as he discusses the long history of fire fighting in Albany and his new book The Firehouses of Albany.
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