by Bill Batson Dr. Lori Martin helped erect this street sign that honors the memory of Cynthia Hesdra. When she published The Ex-Slave’s Fortune: The Story of Cynthia Hesdra in 2008, Martin saved an important figure in […]
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Nyack Sketch Log: Toni Morrison’s Bench By The Road
by Bill Batson Nyack will soon host a monument to the painful period of history when African slavery was a global industry. Later today, November 18, 2014, at 1p, representatives of the Toni Morrison Society […]
Nyack Sketch Log: African American Entrepreneurs in the Nyacks 1800-Present
by Bill Batson As a trail blazing entrepreneur, who overcame racial and gender, discrimination, Cynthia Hesdra amassed a fortune by 1879. Hesdra is the first of a dozen local figures featured in African American Entrepreneurs […]
Nyack Sketch Log: Scholar Puts Local History on the Map
by Bill Batson Dr. Lori Martin helped erect this street sign that honors the memory of Cynthia Hesdra. When she published The Ex-Slave’s Fortune: The Story of Cynthia Hesdra in 2008, Martin saved an important figure in […]