In this episode, Devin and Lauren investigate the invasions of Canada by the Fenian Brotherhood, a group of Irish Nationalists intent of freeing Ireland from British control. These invasions were launched from several locations in upstate New York, including the site of a recently-erected William G. Pomeroy Foundation marker in the Franklin County town of Constable.
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On this Halloween episode of A New York Minute In History, we explore a murder in the state’s capital of Albany. In May 1827,...
2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 and New York State has a huge party planned. On...
This episode focuses on culinary history and the Pomeroy Foundation’s Hungry for History program. We discover that the history of what we eat, and...