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Folklife Festival!

Hi Everyone, So today’s post is about my experience on Saturday, June 28th at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival! My last two blogs were pretty word heavy, so this post is brief with a lot of photos. At the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, I found many exemplary practitioners of diverse, authentic, living traditions—both old and new. The goal of the Festival…

Rewind…Catch Up!

Hi everyone! I am so sorry this post is so late. As you can imagine I have had the busiest, most interesting, educational and hair-raising week and a half. I would have liked to post something every day but there wasn’t enough time in the day. Therefore in this post I am summarizing last week’s work week from June 23 to…

Happy Fourth of July & Hello Mr. President!

Happy July 4th, Everyone! As the three-day holiday weekend approaches, fireworks, parades, free concerts and more fill every corner of the city — and the countryside, too. I was hoping to go home and visit friends and family members but let’s be honest, Washington, DC is arguably the most patriotic place in America to celebrate Independence Day, and I wasn’t…

Good to Know: Saint Rose student nets Assembly’s top research paper honor – and a job

Vincent Rossetti, a Saint Rose history and political science major, spent his final semester as an intern in the New York State Assembly. He worked in a legislative office and devoted his capstone research paper to the push to legalize marijuana for medical use. In it, he noted that the decades-old effort was picking up steam and that the arguments…

Mount Vernon Trail!

On Sunday (6/22) I walked the Mount Vernon Trail which is an 18-mile paved multi-use trail that stretches from George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate to Theodore Roosevelt Island. It connects with regional trails, including the Potomac Heritage, Custis, Rock Creek, Four Mile Run, and Woodrow Wilson Bridge Trails. I walked for four hours but I doubt I walked the entire…

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