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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Thomas Capuano — Race and history in Altamont
Description: Tom Capuano, who grew up in Altamont, has a strong sense of place and the importance of history. Capuano founded Historic Altamont to spread that love, he says on this week’s podcast. The not-for-profit group has started a cemetery preservation project and would like to learn of area cemeteries that are now nearly forgotten. Capuano discovered a list of cemeteries made in the 1940s by the late Guilderland town historian William Brinkman who visited family plots and noted burial grounds — often with unmarked graves — of enslaved African Americans. This led Capuano to produce a mini-documentary, with his son, on the fo...