Dutchess County residents were celebrating other Presidential news when Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt won the first of what would be…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was impressed by the murals that his Rhinebeck, artist neighbor, Olin Dows, had created for the…
September 2020. There has been a growing community discussion about the depiction of enslaved individuals in the Olin Dows murals…
Local issues How are others handling the issue? Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…
The combined forces of a global pandemic, public discussions about race and social justice in a democracy as open, free…
By Bill Jeffway A version of this article was published in the Northern and Southern Dutchess News/ Beacon Free Press…
Can informed and civil conversations promote understanding of diverse views? Increasingly, national conversations about what history should be taught emerge…