Roberson Museum unveils “Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse Exhibition”
Roberson works to increase education with Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse exhibition
May 13, 2021
On April 30, the Roberson Museum and Science Center unveiled “Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse” as a revitalization of an already-standing exhibition. In collaboration with experts and faith leaders within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Roberson Museum and Science Center staff members worked to expand and renew the exhibition to showcase the life and work of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Michael Grasso, ‘07, an executive director for the Roberson Museum, said the exhibition is meant to show appreciation to the Haudenosaunee people who lived in what is present-day Broome County.
But there are many other stars who called the Southern Tier home before hitting it big.
They include a record-smashing athlete, several actors and actresses, as well as the first woman to start her own movie production company.
Here we’ve compiled a list of those locally grown names. A few are the elements of hometown lore, the names you’ve grown up hearing about, but even those who’ve called this area home all their lives might find a surprise or two tucked among the rest.
Amy Sedaris
Most recently appearing as Peli Motto in the Disney+ Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, Endicott native Amy Sedaris s breakout television role came in 1999 when she starred in the comedy series Strangers With Candy. Sedaris also appeared in the holiday film Elf and Netflix series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Binghamton Police Benevolent Association David Bidwell on a book about race and cop shootings being read to students.
A Binghamton police union president said on Friday that the New York school district caused an uproar by reading to elementary schoolchildren a book about race and police shootings. Once we were notified of this book, I was actually shocked, Binghamton Police Benevolent Association David Bidwell told Fox & Friends.
Bidwell said that the book was being read to children ages four through eight.
The Binghamton City School District apologized after an uproar from law enforcement over the book, which discusses racial bias by cops and and police shootings.
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