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History projects on view at Academy

SALISBURY — Time is running out to see the exhibit of student history projects from the recent Troutbeck Symposium at the Salisbury Association’s Academy Building at 24 Main St. in Salisbury. The exhibit closes Saturday, May 31.

There are contributions from Salisbury Central School, the Salisbury School and Housatonic Valley Regional High School.

From Salisbury School there is a look into the story of Absalom Boston, a whaling captain who in 1822 became the first Black captain with an all Black crew operating out of Nantucket.

Another exhibit from Salisbury School deals with the “quiet quota” for Jews at Columbia University.

A group from HVRHS delved into the history of Connecticut rivers and pollution. The rivers are the Housatonic, Naugatuck and Shepaug. The exhibit also touches on the infamous Love Canal in New York.

Another HVRHS group looked at the similarities between Jim Crow laws in the United States and the Nuremberg race laws in Nazi Germany.

There is a collage from eighth grade students at Salisbury Central School on “the hidden histories of erased Black settlements in America.”

Visitors can take in all this and more during the Academy Building’s hours, which are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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