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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: John Arrighi — Rensselaerville's Conkling Hall
Description: John Arrighi lives in an historic Rensselaerville church and, as president of the Friends of Conkling Hall, is helping to improve another one, which serves as a community meeting space. Arrighi is seated on the edge of the stage at Conkling Hall. The hall, on Methodist Hill Road, was built as a church in 1839 and changed to a community center in the early 1900s. Arrighi, who was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and came to Albany County to study at the University at Albany, discovered Rensselaerville when his pottery professor, Frances Simches, invited him to her workshop and...