world war 2

A Queensbury woman is asking for help after she came across a treasure trove of history that seems to have been misplaced. Rachel Seeber-Conine has reached out to the local media and done some work on her social media platforms hoping to reunite hundreds of letters written by a World War II veteran stationed in Italy in the 1940's with members of his family.  Seeber-Conine unearthed these letters

So you hear me talking about Bub on the radio all the time, he's my husband, and his real name is Graig ERNEST Chapman.  He was named after his grandfather, U.S. Army Technician 4th Grade Sergeant Ernest Weller.  Who we all call Ernie. I've known Ernie for a long time, but I had no idea how influential he was during World War II...

December 7, 1941 was proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be “a day which will live in infamy,” because this was the date that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

It seems like some of us forget about some of the cool stuff there is to do right in our own backyard. In an earlier blog, I mention a few places that you can go for a local day trip, around the Albany area.