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Message:: [QUOTE="leeg, post: 4213633, member: 17073"]Thanks for the comments all. Too much running through the brain.  lol [ATTACH=full]1079585[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079586[/ATTACH] Athletic Events and Aquatic Sports – All Day Program, at Bleecker Stadium, Lincoln Park Bowl, and Hudson River. National A.A.U. 20-Kilometer Championship Race, Field and Track Events. Relay Race, Schenectady to Albany, Over the Same Route Traversed by Symon Schermerhorn in 1690, in Bringing Word to the Albany Garrison of the Schenectady Massacre. Tuesday, July 21: Business and Civic Parade, 4 P. M., Depicting the Progress of the City, from the Beginning to the Present. Demonstration of Modern Municipal Equipment by City Departments, Police, Fire, Public works, Parks, Schools, Port of Albany, Floats, etc. Wednesday, July 22: Charter Day, Historical Parade and Pageant, Combined with Military Parade, 4 P. M., Depicting in Chronological Order authentic Historical Events of the City, From the Landing of Henry Hudson in 1609 Down to the Present Day; Fraternal, Racial and National Groups in Costume; Floats, etc. [ATTACH=full]1079590[/ATTACH] ◊  ◊  PIONEER SHRINE  ◊  ◊ During the Celebration There Will be Unveiled in the Plaza, Broadway and State Street, the Model of the Proposed Historical Shrine Honoring the Pioneer Founders Who Established Albany in 1614. ◊  ◊  EXHIBIT  ◊  ◊ Daily, at Albany Institute of History and Art, an unusual Exhibit of Albany Family Heirlooms, Silverware, Paintings, Miniatures, etc. ◊  ◊  MUSIC  ◊  ◊ During the Four Days of the Celebration There Will Be Massed Choral singing; Concerts on the Municipal Carillon; Band Concerts. Chapter IX: The Capital and City (1936)     ‘The city in which we are assembled, the Capital of the State, is the oldest existing settlement in the original thirteen States . . . Almost the whole of our State history in peace and war has been made and written within its portals’—Governor Hoffman, 1871. ◊   ◊   ◊ [ATTACH=full]1079591[/ATTACH]     Like all capitals, Albany lives a dual role. Practically its whole existence of more than three centuries has placed it in a vital position in public affairs, while at the same time it has pursued a separate and notable career as a ‘private’ municipality.     Legislation adopted in the halls of state has frequently been of a pioneer nature, appearing in similar or modified forms on the books of many States of the Union. Because of the influence the State inevitably exerts in national affairs, Albany is commonly regarded by political aspirants as the next most important Capital to Washington itself. Much legal history is written in the decisions of the courts of the State, of which the Court of Appeals is the highest.     It is perhaps difficult to realize the age of Albany, or the length of its active career, which antedates that of the Nation itself. The city, since its Charter 250 years ago, has had sixty-eight Mayors. Pieter Schuyler, the first Mayor, served eight years. Philip S. Van Rensselaer served 17 years, from 1799 to 1816. John Boyd Thacher 2d, the present Mayor, has served ten years. He is the third Mayor of that name, George H. Thacher having taken office in 1860, and John Boyd Thacher in 1886. much more to follow.[/QUOTE]

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