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Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: A look at the Wemple family’s Schenectady history | The Daily Gazette
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As civic-minded attorneys, maybe entering politics is the natural thing to do. But while these two Wemples, both Republicans and both descended from one of Schenectady’s original founders more than three and a half centuries ago, were both immersed into electoral politics, no one ever accused them of being a life-long politician. They were both much more than that.
With the passing last month of former Schenectady police sergeant Ray Wemple, their distant cousin, I decided to look into some of the family’s history, and the trip back was well worth the visit. Here are the facts.
MacArthur Park reboot: A Q&A with Victoria Ramirez of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
March 3, 202111:55 am ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, TRANSFORMED: Like its new name, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ new building nods to its 1930s origins. Studio Gang/courtesy of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
The Arkansas Arts Center has a new name to go with its $142 million new building in MacArthur Park. Now known as the
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the newly glowed-up art museum is slated to open in 2022, housing under one roof a restaurant, an art school, gallery space, a museum store and performing arts spaces for its acclaimed children’s theater and other groups. Architecture firm Studio Gang, founded by MacArthur genius grant award winner Jeanne Gang, designed the new building. The concept adds a sweeping glass-paneled “cultural living room” and simultaneously nods to the building’s history by uncovering and spotlighting a
Literacy legend had Lairdsville link
By Carol Sones Shelter - Reporter | Jan 28, 2021
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Born near Lairdsville, Harriet Jane Derr was photographed with daughter Bertelle, age three, husband John B. Laubach, and seven year old son Frank C. Laubach of Benton, Columbia County, PA. The latter would become known world-wide for his success in literacy in a program he developed titled “Each one Teach One.”
LAIRDSVILLE – Many individuals, especially educators, recognize the name Frank Charles Laubach as a missionary who fought illiteracy around the world. A quote linked to the late Benton born man was, “The ability to read is the key to the door of the world, and through them, to a world of understanding, instead of fear hate and superstition.”