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ALLIANCE – Area residents and out-of-town visitors will have many opportunities to explore Alliance history during the 63rd Greater Alliance Carnation Festival that runs from Aug. 3 to 13. The Alliance Historical Society, the Alliance Preservation Society and the Castle Crusaders have scheduled open houses in their historic sites, and guided and self-guided tours of […]
Solomon Northup Day, annual observance held in July in Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S., in recognition of Solomon Northup, a free farmer, labourer, and musician who was abducted and sold into slavery in 1841 and liberated 12 years later. Northup was born in Schroon (now Minerva), New York, and