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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Christopher Philipo, New York State's local historians
Description: This year, 2019, is the centennial of a law that created the post of local government historian for each city, town, or village in the state; New York was the first state to do so. Christopher Philippo, on this week’s podcast, talks about his work for a former state historian, collating and cataloging the annual reports of local government historians, the cruel irony being that decades of reports from the keepers of history were lost while others were nonexistent to begin with. Philippo looked up Altamont’s first village historian, as reported in The Enterprise: May R. Silvernail. The state hist...