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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Christopher Philippo uses a local lens to look at large historical issues
Description: History is all around us although few of us delve in, as Christopher Philippo does, to find it.Take women’s suffrage for instance.In 2017, as New York was celebrating its centennial for women’s suffrage, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation notified historical societies across the state about a grant program for markers.At a Lansingburgh Historical Society meeting, Philippo recalled, the secretary mentioned the Pomeroy letter and said, “We didn’t have any suffragists here, so we’ll just move on to the next item on the agenda.“And I said, ‘Wait...