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Elizabeth Bashinsky: The Duchess of Troy 

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” Elizabeth Alexander Burford was ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 3:29 pm

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The ‘Great Fire of 1890’ had lasting impact

At 12:45 p.m. on Monday, June 30, 1890 a large part of the business quarter of Troy was in ashes.  The financial loss from this ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, March 29, 2022 8:05 pm

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An introduction to some interesting people

Dexter Perkins, a noted historian and professor at the University of Rochester said, “history is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 7:47 pm

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Madstones: Are they myth, superstition or medicine

Madstone. Merriam Webster defines madstone as “a stony concretion, such as a hair ball taken from the stomach of a deer that formerly was used ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:12 pm

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Dianne Smith looks back at local history in Messenger files

Robert A. Heinlein, an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer and naval office once said “a generation which ignores history has no past and no ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:44 pm

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Dianne Smith looks back at local history in Messenger files

From The Messenger files … David McCullough  an American author, narrator, popular historian and lecturer said, “history is who we are and why we are ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, March 1, 2022 8:20 pm

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The past happens, history is what people have written down

Alan Whitney Brown said, “the past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.”  There is a lot of history that has been ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 7:45 pm

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Columnist searches archives for interesting bits of local history

5 YEARS AGO “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything.  You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a ... Read more

by Dianne Smith, Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00 pm

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