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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Donald Hyman — prospector, panning for the gold of forgotten history
Description: Donald Hyman brings history to life by portraying people from the past.Albany hotelier Adam Black Jr.; James Matthews, the state’s first African-American judge; and James Dickson, a New Scotland native and general manager for the Slingerland family, will be reborn on Oct. 5 for those attending the New Scotland Historical Association meeting. “They come back to me like I’m listening to lyrics in a song,” says Hyman in this week’s podcast.Hyman researches the often-forgotten men he portrays both online and through original documents like letters and church records. “I try to find i...