Credit: Courtesy of Lindsay Pontius
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“Dreaming of Timbuctoo” in Middlebury Examines the History of Black Land Ownership in the Adirondacks

Many elements of history lie hidden amid family heirlooms. Katherine Butler Jones, a Black woman from Massachusetts, was going through some family documents more than two decades ago when she came upon the original marriage certificate of her great-great-grandparents. Familiar with Black history, Jones recognized the name of the minister who had married the couple: […]

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