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Writers Institute launching virtual and in-person film festival FacebookTwitterEmail 1of14 The poster for the inaugural Albany Film Festival, sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute and being held in person and online from April 24 through May 3. (Provided photo.)Provided photoShow MoreShow Less 2of14Arriving in style at the Ironweed premiere on Dec. 17, 1987. (Times Union archive) Show MoreShow Less 3of14 4of14Buy PhotoJack Nicolson in scene from Ironweed . February 1987 (Skip Dickstein/Times Union Archive)Skip DicksteinShow MoreShow Less 5of14Buy PhotoDon Rittner, the former archeologist for the City of Albany, talks with members of the media a press conference out in front of the Stephen and Harriet Myers home at 194 Livingston Avenue on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. The press event was held for members of the The Historic Albany Foundation to talk about a project where they have compiled a list of oldest buildings in the cit ....
Information Without The Bun IWTB 2008-2021 By Roger Green on February 1, 2021 at 10:37 PM I started blogging here in January 2008. It was never my primary blog location. That would be https://www.rogerogreen.comsince May 2010, and another location for the five years before that. I will certainly write an epic post there this week talking about the ups and downs of being on this platform. There were a lot more ups, though the downs were quite dreadful. Mike Huber, I must thank Mike Huber. He recruited me for this task. We go way back before the community blogs existed. He was in charge of some community webpages for nonprofits, and I was working on up to four of them late last century. ....
Don Rittner Another removal of Albany history hits the road By Don Rittner on December 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM
by Don Rittner
My first history/archeology project back in 1972 was relocating and preserving the Kings’s Highway, the first road between the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys that connected Albany (Fort Orange) to Skenectada (Schenectady). I took up the unfinished work of Schenectady City Historian William Efner who began this project back in the 1930s. Fortunately I was able to save a mile long section of the original sandy road when Mayor Corning purchased the first city Pine Bush Preserve back in the late 70s at my request. ....