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SUMMARY:OHA Announces Follow-up to World War I  Reading and Discussion Program
DESCRIPTION:The Onondaga Historical Association (OHA) is pleased to offer a second installment of “Our World Remade: World War I\,” a reading and discussion series developed and sponsored by Humanities New York. “With its thematic focus\, this reading and discussion program offers an unusual twist on the standard book group format by making time for thinking deeply about one idea\, over time\, from a variety of perspectives\,” says Sara Ogger\, executive director of Humanities New York. Something special happens when we talk about what we read with others in our community. Humanities New York’s Adult Reading & Discussion programs are designed to foster active reading and thinking\, incorporating texts that serve as catalysts for civic engagement\, cultural understanding\, and personal reflection. Adult Reading & Discussion programs are held in communities across New York State.\n\nAt the Onondaga Historical Museum\, located at 321 Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse\, participants will come together over the course of four (4) sessions to discuss a variety of thematically linked texts with Robert J. Searing\, Curator of history for OHA Participants in “Our World Remade” will explore the complexities of  World War I\, and how  in the years that followed\, survivors\, authors\, and historians struggled to come to terms with the carnage\, the terrors of the battlefield\, and the sociological and political upheaval caused by the conflict. World War I marked a turning point in warfare and weaponry\, from the months-long battles like Verdun and the destruction wrought by new technologies\, to the dehumanizing effects of the war on civilians and especially the soldiers at the front. \n*** \nThe centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917 has created a renewed interest in the “war to end all wars.” 2018 marks the centennial of the armistice on 11/11/1918.  At our museum in downtown Syracuse\, OHA has dedicated its  Murray-Sales gallery to a large exhibit highlighting the contributions of the people of Onondaga County to the war effort.  We are proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant from Humanities of New York to hold a reading and discussion group in the museum.  The dates for these 4 sessions are 2/27\, 3/20\, 4/24\, and 5/22 at 6:15 pm.  The sessions will run between 1 and 2 hours. \nLed by OHA Curator of history Robert J. Searing\, these four informal\, monthly sessions will focus on selected readings including primary sources and larger monographs that deal with various aspects of the war\, from the battlefield to the home-front and how the Great War fundamentally altered the course of warfare\, geo-politics\, and the lives of ordinary people across the world.  All of our discussion meetings will take place inside the OHA’s World War I exhibit\, which includes a wide variety of 3-D objects including uniforms and helmets and other artifacts from our collections\, in addition to an incredible array of photographs and wartime images from Syracuse. \nThe program is free and open to the public\, although pre-registration is required. For more information about the series dates and acquiring books\, please contact Robert J. Searing at (315)428-1864 ext. 319 or robert.searing@cnyhistory.org \nFor more information about “Our World Remade\,” visit www.humanitiesny.org. \n*** \nOnondaga Historical Association exists to inspire people’s understanding that the history we share as a community is the foundation for our future together.  Our purpose is to educate and encourage the exploration\, appreciation\, and utilization of the past in order to add value throughout our community and bring the great stories of Onondaga County’s history to a worldwide audience.  To do so\, we offer engaging exhibits\, publications\, products\, and programs; we pursue partnerships with other organizations; and we develop and care for definitive collections related to local history.  We are an association of heritage-related museums\, research and educational centers\, historic sites\, and retail stores in Onondaga County\, New York. \nHumanities New York is a private\, non-profit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, receiving federal\, state\, city\, and private funding. It provides leadership and support across the state’s intellectual and cultural sectors through grants\, programs\, networking\, and advocacy\, in order to encourage critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena. \nwww.humanitiesny.org \nAny views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of either Humanities New York or the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/oha-announces-follow-world-war-reading-discussion-program/
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club: "The Traitor's Wife" by Allison Pataki
DESCRIPTION:On February 24th\, the OHA Book Club will discuss “The Traitor’s Wife” by Allison Pataki. \nAbout the book (via Goodreads) \nA riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold\, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America’s most infamous act of treason . . .\nEveryone knows Benedict Arnold–the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British–as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold’s co-conspirator\, Major John Andre\, who was apprehended with Arnold’s documents in his boots and hanged at the orders of General George Washington. But few know of the integral third character in the plot: a charming young woman who not only contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it. \nSocialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold’s age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his young bride’s beauty and wit\, Arnold does not realize that she harbors a secret: loyalty to the British. Nor does he know that she hides a past romance with the handsome British spy John Andre. Peggy watches as her husband\, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from years of service to the colonies\, grows ever more disillusioned with his hero\, Washington\, and the American cause. Together with her former love and her disaffected husband\, Peggy hatches the plot to deliver West Point to the British and\, in exchange\, win fame and fortune for herself and Arnold. \nTold from the perspective of Peggy’s maid\, whose faith in the new nation inspires her to intervene in her mistress’s affairs even when it could cost her everything\, The Traitor’s Wife brings these infamous figures to life\, illuminating the sordid details and the love triangle that nearly destroyed the American fight for freedom.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/book-club-traitors-wife/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club: Holiday Cooking Edition & Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Have a favorite cookbook? Interested in changing up your holiday meals? Join us for the next meeting for the OHA Book Club on December 9th at 11:30am at the Onondaga Historical Museum Auditorium in downtown Syracuse. \nHave a dish you want to share? Bring it with you! We’ll also be hosting Lynne Pascale\, owner of Farmer Street Pantry. Lynne will be presenting and provide a tasting for two of her unique\, local\, and historic products: granola and mincemeat. \n 
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/oha-book-club-holiday-cooking-edition-potluck/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Presentation
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club: The Myth of Seneca Falls\, by Lisa Tetrault
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 11th OHA is hosting its monthly book club featuring the book\, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement\, 1848-1898 (Gender and American Culture). The book will be available in OHA’s Gift Gallery Museum Store at 321 Montgomery Street.  \n“The story of how the women’s rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton\, Susan B. Anthony\, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women’s suffrage. In her provocative new history\, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton\, Anthony\, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War. The founding mythology that coalesced in their speeches and writings–most notably Stanton and Anthony’s History of Woman Suffrage–provided younger activists with the vital resource of a usable past for the ongoing struggle\, and it helped consolidate Stanton and Anthony’s leadership against challenges from the grassroots and rival suffragists. \nAs Tetrault shows\, while this mythology has narrowed our understanding of the early efforts to champion women’s rights\, the myth of Seneca Falls itself became an influential factor in the suffrage movement. And along the way\, its authors amassed the first archive of feminism and literally invented the modern discipline of women’s history.” – University of North Carolina Press
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/myth-seneca-falls/
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club: Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
DESCRIPTION:This month’s OHA Book Club will feature a discussion with author Leigh Fought\, Associate Professor of History at Le Moyne College\, about her book\, Women in the World of Frederick Douglass. Douglas Egerton\, author of\, Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America\, will also be discussing and signing his book.  \nAbout the book (via Amazon): “In Women in the World of Frederick Douglass\, Leigh Fought illuminates the life of the famed abolitionist off the public stage. She begins with the women he knew during his life as a slave: his mother\, from whom he was separated; his grandmother\, who raised him; his slave mistresses\, including the one who taught him how to read; and his first wife\, Anna Murray\, a free woman who helped him escape to freedom and managed the household that allowed him to build his career. Fought examines Douglass’s varied relationships with white women-including Maria Weston Chapman\, Julia Griffiths\, Elizabeth Cady Stanton\, and Ottilie Assing–who were crucial to the success of his newspapers\, were active in the antislavery and women’s movements\, and promoted his work nationally and internationally. She also considers Douglass’s relationship with his daughter Rosetta\, who symbolized her parents’ middle class prominence but was caught navigating between their public and private worlds. Late in life\, Douglass remarried to a white woman\, Helen Pitts\, who preserved his papers\, home\, and legacy for history.” \n \nAbout the book (via Amazon) : In Thunder at the Gates\, Douglas Egerton chronicles the formation and battlefield triumphs of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry-regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery. He argues that the most important battles of all were won on the field of public opinion\, for in fighting with distinction the regiments realized the long-derided idea of full and equal citizenship for blacks. \nTheir books are available at the Onondaga Historical Association’s Gift Gallery museum store.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/book-club-september-17/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein
DESCRIPTION:On May 6th\, the OHA Book Club will discuss The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein \nMore about the book: March 25\, 2011\, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire\, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers’ rights and safety\, this edition of Leon Stein’s classic account of the fire features a substantial new foreword by the labor journalist Michael Hirsch\, as well as a new appendix listing all of the victims’ names\, for the first time\, along with addresses at the time of their death and locations of their final resting places. \n“Stein recreates the tragic events of the fire in all their dramatic intensity. His moving account is a work of dedication.”―New York Times Book Review \n“Stein suggests that the fire alerted the public to shocking working conditions all over the city and helped the unions organize the clothing industry\, but his good taste keeps him from selling the reader any silver lining. A by-product of the careful research that has gone into this excellent narrative is an interesting sketch of the hard lives and times of working girls in the days when the business of America was business.”―The New Yorker \n“With commendable restraint\, Stein uses newspapers\, official documents\, and the evidence of survivors to unfold a story made more harrowing by the unemotional simplicity of its narration.”―Library Journal \n“Leon Stein’s gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress\, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor\, past or present\, should read.”―Michael Kazin\, Georgetown University
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/triangle-fire-leon-stein/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Club: "The Soul of Central New York" by Sean Kirst
DESCRIPTION:On April 15th\, The OHA Book Club will meet to discuss The Soul of Central New York by Sean Kirst. The author will be joining the discussion. You can purchase the book here or in our Gift Gallery at 321 Montgomery Street in Downtown Syracuse. \nMore about the book via Syracuse University Press: Nationally celebrated columnist Sean Kirst offers a deeply moving collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of the everyday men and women who define Syracuse. \n“Kirst not only shares with readers his love and passion for the people\, places\, and voices of his hometown\, but captures the essence of what it is to be a community.”—Jason Emerson\, author of Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln \n“Kirst demonstrates an extraordinary connection with his readers and subjects. How wonderful it would be for any community to have such an artful chronicler of its poignant moments.”—Janice Bullard Pieterse\, author of Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the University of Rochester\, 1850–2005 \nAbout the Author: Sean Kirst is a longtime Upstate journalist\, writer\, and storyteller who spent nearly 25 years as a columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard. Winner of the 2008 Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing\, he is also the author of The Ashes of Lou Gehrig and Other Baseball Essays\, and co-author of Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd. He lives in Syracuse with his wife\, Nora\, and their three children.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/soul-central-ny-sean-kirst/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Club - Frontier Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang by E. Fuller Torrey
DESCRIPTION:On March 4th\, the OHA Book Club will meet and discuss Frontier Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang by E. Fuller Torrey. \nVia Amazon: A definitive history of the Loomis Gang who terrorized central New York in the 1800’s. Well-educated and from aristocratic New England families\, George and Rhoda Loomis raised their children to be outlaws. Robbery\, horse thieving\, bribery\, arson\, counterfeiting\, kidnapping\, rape and murder-the Loomis Gang did it all until they were brought down by Constable Jim Filkins and United States Senator Roscoe Conkling. \nAbout the author: E. Fuller Torrey\, M.D.\, is a research psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is the executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute\, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center\, a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences\, and the author of twenty books. He lives in Bethesda\, Maryland.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/book-club-frontier-justice-loomis-gang/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club - "Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Rise of Roosevelt" by Edward P. Kohn
DESCRIPTION:This November\, OHA Book Club will discuss Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Rise of Roosevelt by Edward P. Kohn. \nFrom Amazon\nOne of the worst natural disasters in American history\, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1\,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan\, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows\, Bryan’s hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling to mitigate the dangerously high temperatures by hosing down streets and handing out ice to the poor. \nA vivid narrative that captures the birth of the progressive era\, Hot Time in the Old Town revives the forgotten disaster that almost destroyed a great American city. \nFrom Publishers Weekly\nFor 10 hellishly hot days in August 1896\, the poorly ventilated tenement blocks of immigrant New York were transformed into massive ovens: horses dropped dead in the streets and nearly 1\,300 people perished. That same week\, William Jennings Bryan\, a promising prairie populist from Nebraska and the Democratic Party’s choice for president\, launched his opposition to William McKinley and set out on a cross-country campaign tour\, and a police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt hosed down the streets\, desperately trying to bring down the temperatures. Kohn (The Kindred People)\, professor of American studies and literature at Bilkent University in Turkey\, splices these stories together\, but the union feels forced\, and any correlation of Bryan’s downfall (a clumsy\, momentum-killing speech at Madison Square Garden) with the heat wave is tenuous. “It is in the nature of heat waves to kill slowly\,” writes Kohn\, “with no physical manifestation\, no property damage\, and no single catastrophic event that markets them as a disaster.” He succeeds in bringing this little-known tragedy to light\, but it is weakened rather than strengthened by the addition of an election narrative.\nCopyright © Reed Business Information\, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/hot-time-old-town-great-heat-wave-1896-rise-roosevelt/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club - Quoting Matilda by Sue Savion
DESCRIPTION:In October\, the OHA Book Club will be discussing Quoting Matilda by Sue Savion. Though Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are well-known historical names\, that of Matilda Joslyn Gage usually evokes the response\, “Who?” Yet\, this amazing woman contributed equally for many years as part of a triumvirate with Anthony and Stanton. Matilda was involved in the women’s movement from 1852 until her death in 1898. She became a noted speaker and writer on woman’s suffrage. She was born in upstate New York to an abolitionist family. Indeed\, her childhood home and her later Greek Revival home (now a museum dedicated to her) in Fayetteville\, New York were both stops on the Underground Railroad. She was best known for her feminist and suffragist activities\, but she was “written out of history” for many years\, because she was considered by her peers to be too radical in all she proposed to accomplish. Inspired by the Haudenosaunee women who were her neighbors and who adopted her into their wolf clan\, she was determined to gain the rights of property ownership\, governance and equality of power for her 19th century sisterhood. She fought for the rights of Native Americans and enslaved persons and anyone else impacted by government control. She championed women inventors and was the inspiration behind her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s 14 Oz books. She had a life-long desire for justice and equality for all and was connected to the ideas of Theosophy. This moved her to take on the inequality of women in religious institutions. Along with Stanton\, Gage published The Woman’s Bible. Her book\, Women\, Church and State was judged as “going too far” by many.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/quoting-matilda-sue-savion/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club - A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:The OHA Book Club will discuss A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski. In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject\, Witold Rybczynski\, the bestselling author of Home and City Life\, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. \nWe know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes—among them\, New York’s Central Park\, California’s Stanford University campus\, and Boston’s Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted’s contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822\, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California’s largest gold mine and\, during the Civil War\, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission\, the precursor of the Red Cross. \nRybczynski’s passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted’s immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance\, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure. \nAmazon.com Review\nFrederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer\, well known for his plans for New York’s Central Park and Prospect Park\, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington\, D.C.\, and the campus of Stanford University\, among other noteworthy sites.But\, writes urban studies professor and accomplished author Witold Rybczynski\, Olmsted was an American original\, a 19th-century success story who packed many careers and wide learning and travel into a long life. He spent time in China and Europe\, managed a California gold mine\, edited The Nation\, commanded a medical unit in the Civil War\, and crisscrossed the United States many times over\, writing long reports and articles all the while. (One series of reports urged\, for instance\, that the then-remote Yosemite region of California be made a national park.) Olmsted\, Rybczynski suggests\, changed the face of America: he had a vision of the American landscape as a reflection of the national character\, with its broad vistas and open skies\, and he was concerned to make America’s urban spaces livable\, bringing “trees and greenery into the congested grid of streets.” At Olmsted’s urging\, many American and Canadian cities adopted his system of parks\, broad avenues\, and greenways\, which encouraged the appreciation and preservation of nature; his influence is felt today in the so-called urban ecology movement\, and in dozens of public spaces across the continent. \nRybczynski’s fine and illuminating biography of Olmsted shows him to have been a man of many parts\, an important historical figure whose legacy remains strong nearly a century after his death. –Gregory McNamee –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/clearing-distance-frederick-law-olmsted-america-19th-century/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
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SUMMARY:Book Club: "The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict" by Austin Reed
DESCRIPTION:Join OHA’s book club on June 11th to discuss “The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict” by Austin Reed\, with forward by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto. This book is described as “The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.” Austin Reed was a prisoner at Auburn State Prison in the mid-19th century. \nHow was this memoir discovered? \nAccording to NPR\, “At an estate sale in Rochester\, N.Y.\, in 2009\, a rare book seller came upon a curious literary artifact. As it turned out\, it was a memoir written in the 1850s by Austin Reed\, a black man who spent most of his life in prison…When Reed’s memoir found its way to Yale University\, librarians and scholars were eager to get a look at it. Robert Stepto\, a professor of African-American studies\, has spent a lifetime studying slave narratives.”
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/austin-reed-haunted-convict/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Club: "The Invention of Wings: A Novel" by Sue Monk Kidd
DESCRIPTION:Join OHA’s book club on May 7th to discuss “The Invention of Wings: A Novel” by Sue Monk Kidd. According to NPR‘s Bobbi Dumas\, “the book is the fictionalized history of the Grimké sisters\, Sarah and Angelina (Nina)\, who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements\, wound around the intriguing narrative of a young slave\, Hetty\, who was given to Sarah as an 11th birthday present. Sarah despises slavery\, even at that early age\, and out of principle attempts to reject the gift…The novel is a textured masterpiece\, quietly yet powerfully poking our consciences and our consciousness. What does it mean to be a sister\, a friend\, a woman\, an outcast\, a slave? How do we use our talents to better ourselves and our world? How do we give voice to our power\, or learn to empower our voice?”
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/sue-monk-kidd-invention-of-wings/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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