Erastus Corning 2nd: the mayor who ran Albany for 41 years
Erastus Corning 2nd was elected mayor of Albany in 1941 and was still in office when he died in 1983.…
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People & Profiles
People and institutions that shape the Capital Region and the Hudson Valley.
Buddy Emmons, the steel guitar legend who played with country’s biggest stars
Buddy Emmons, who died in 2015, was widely considered the most influential pedal steel guitarist of his era. He played with Ernest Tubb, Ray Price and many others, and he helped design the instrument…
By Walter Brinkerhoff · · 2 min read
Mo Amer, the Arab American comedian who turned his own story into a Netflix series
Mo Amer built a career by telling audiences the truth about his own life: a Palestinian family, a refugee childhood…