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A time-traveling tour of American history in a bucolic corner of NYC

https://https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/216889/

STATEN ISLAND — Tucked away on Staten Island, Historic Richmond Town offers something rare in New York City:…

All for Gardening

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Family Roots: A Hillenmeyer Garden Profile

https://www.allforgardening.com/1744163/family-roots-a-hillenmeyer-garden-profile/

At the end of a bucolic Midway street, tucked in beside Midway Cemetery and overlooking Hurstland Farm, sits the home of Dottie Cordray and Chris Batts. The home — a …

Carceral Abolition

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A bucolic county in upstate New York appointed a poet laureate. Why was she fired shortly after?

Esther Cohen was removed as Greene county’s poet laureate just weeks after the appointment. It’s ‘emblematic of the assault on the arts writ large’, some say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/01/esther-cohen-poet-laureate