I think he should get off Twitter and consider doing some physical fitness. I think a good walk would serve him well. Maybe he could start walking the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Trail from Georgetown to Cumberland and then do the Great Atlantic Passage Trail to Pittsburgh, a 335 mile hike. Not only is it healthy, it’s a great positive media narrative while people are still so frustrated about the contentious election and COVID-19.
I learned tonight that the late Reszin Adams got a Wilson Pakula and as a Republican in 1970s for the Albany County Legislature, all while serving as a dissident Democratic committee member. Probably thanks largely to County Clerk Theresa Cooke, whose politics were much closer to George McGovern than Richard Nixon.
Crailo is the museum of the Colonial Dutch in the Hudson River Valley. Originally a part of the vast landholding called the Manor or Patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, the Crailo farm was named after the Van Rensselaer's estate in the Netherlands, variously spelled Crayloo or Cralo in the 17th century, and meaning "crows' wood" in Dutch.
Crailo was built in the early 18th century by Hendrick Van Rensselaer, grandson of the First Patroon. Hendrick died in 1740 and his eldest son, Johannes, inherited Crailo. He remodeled the house and added an east wing in the Georgian style, reflecting the increasing influence of the English on the Albany-area Dutch.In the late 18th century, Crailo was remodeled in the Federal style. It served as a boys' boarding school in the 1840s and later as a church rectory. Each new venture brought more changes to the structure. In 1924 Crailo was donated to New York State for development as a museum.Crailo today tells the story of the early Dutch inhabitants of the upper Hudson Valley through exhibits highlighting archeological finds from the Albany Fort Orange excavations, special programs, and guided tours of the museum.
While there might be some residual interest in the Civil War or World War II, I think some of the most interesting history that is rapidly being lost is from the 1950s and 1960s, in the great expansion and change that occurred after World War II. While there are still some people around from 50 years ago, fewer and fewer are and it’s important to document their accomplishments before they’re all gone for good.
But the changes the 115,000 residents of this city on the hilly west bank of the Hudson River talk about are removed from State Street and the Murmuring heart of state government. They are on Arbor Hill, South Pearl Street and Central Avenue and on the docks by the ice‐clogged Hudson. And, there are even signs of change, at a glacial rate, in the style of Erastus Corning 2d, the Democratic patrician who has been Mayor since 1942.
The Mayor, to the surprise of many here, has begun to respond to his critics, rather than ignore them. His response was prodded, perhaps, because one of the chief critics is a woman, who once held the title of Tulip Queen.
Mrs. Theresa Cooke, the Albany Tulip Queen 15 years ago, now appears at public meetings and holds conferences to denounce the Mayor for what she contends is “fraud” in his budget. And the Mayor seems annoyed, but not flustered.
The Eighth Step Coffee House was founded in Albany New York in 1967, by a group of local churches and was housed for 30 years in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church[1] on the corner of State and Willett Streets.[