>
> This is something which I think warrants our expressing our opinion --
> quickly. I have featured an alert to the article on the homepage of The
> Poorhouse Story website http://www.poorhousestory.com
>
> Please read and forward where you think appropriate.
>
> Thanks,
> Linda
> (aka = The Poorhouse Lady)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:27 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [NYSARATO] Times Union Article
> >
> >
> >
> >   Forgotten in life, interrupted in death
> >
> >   Albany -- University Heights project rising atop almshouse's
> > burial field
> >  may force relocation of remains
> >
> >   by: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN  Staff writer
> >
> >   Such is the lot of the poor, the unwanted, the unidentified and the
> >  forgotten of 19th-century Albany -- laid to rest in more than
> a thousand
> >  unmarked graves now paved over by a parking lot.
> > They were the city's most marginal inhabitants, whose deaths were
> > allotted
> >  one line apiece in a ledger kept at the Albany County Hall of
> Records. '
> >  Unknown man, found drowned in the river,'' one entry reads.
> > 'Died suddenly
> > in
> >  jail,'' says another. Many state simply, 'Stillborn.''
> >
> >   Since early March, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of four
> > people
> >  behind the New Scotland Avenue Armory while doing site work for the
> > University Heights project -- a campus for a consortium of
> local colleges
> >  that could eventually include a megabookstore and food court in the old
> >  armory as well as a hotel and conference center.
> >
> >   To read the rest of the article, go to:
> >
> >   http://timesunion.com/ss.asp?s=31983&c=F
> >
> >   To visit the site's homepage, go to http://timesunion.com
> >
> >
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