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Don Mochon: Artist ∙ Architect ∙ Academic
October is Archives Month in the United States, and what better way to celebrate than with a new exhibit?
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Revealed
Upon helping a researcher based in Shelter Island, New York, last month, I had to peruse the Institute Archives’ expansive Horsford collection, which I hadn’t done before. Among fun items, such as colonial currency dated to 1775, an 1839 newspaper story of a young girl becoming a pirate, and a lady throwing a summer party in the Roaring Twenties, where attendees had to dress up as Colonial Quakers, something else caught my eye: wax seals.
Women's History Month: Rensselaer Aglow with the Achievements of Women
Our second post in honor of Women’s History Month explores and celebrates the countless achievements of women throughout the Rensselaer community over the past several decades.