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South Egremont, MA · Arts & Culture
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Film telling story of New York's 19th century Anti-Rent Wars to be screened in Albany
You may not have learned about the 19th century Anti-Rent Wars in your high school history class, but the story of indentured farmers fighting for their land and freedom is well-known in parts of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Shut out from purchasing their land, upstate New Yorkers who organized...
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Film made us proud to support The Enterprise
We attended the Nov. 7 Albany premiere of “Seized” at the Palace Theatre, a film about an unlawful police raid on a small local newspaper. Over 2,000 people viewed the film, which was sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute and reviewed by Elizabeth Floyd in the Nov. 5 edition of The Enterprise.
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18th Century Surveying Demonstration Set for Albany
There have been significant advancements in surveying equipment since the 1700s. The common surveyor’s compass (circumferentor) had a brass body and used magnetic needles to determine angles, but it was prone to local magnetic deviations. A 66-foot metal Gunter’s chain split into 100 links (with one link equaling 7.92...
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The Legacy of the Anti-Rent War, New York’s Second Revolution
Landlords and tenant farmers clashed in rural, upstate regions during New York’s Anti-Rent War between 1839 and 1845. The Anti-Renters declared their independence from the manor system run by patroons, resisted tax collectors and demanded reform. In the aftermath of the rebellion, the antiquated manor system was abandoned in...
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Albany’s state capitol has a $1.5 million staircase built entirely by hand
Albany’s capitol sits at the top of State Street hill, and from the outside it already looks more like a European palace than a government office. Step inside and you find grand staircases, carved stone faces, and ceilings covered in paint and gold. Workers built the whole structure by hand from solid stone, with no steel frame holding it up.