Influential Women

Why I Want to Be Your Assembly Member

by Jill Fieldstein We are emerging from two of the worst years New York has ever experienced due to the economic, medical, educational and social trauma inflicted by the pandemic. While the economic outlook here in Dutchess is considerably better than many other parts of the state, towns and villages such as Dover Plains (17.7%),Continue reading “Why I Want to Be Your Assembly Member”

170 Years Ago Today Sojourner Truth Delivers ‘Aint I a Woman’ Speech

Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill (now Rifton), Ulster County on the western shores of the Hudson River, was a noted abolitionist and suffragist. She was a slave until 1827, the year New York finally outlawed slavery (though she had to leave some of her children behind when sheContinue reading “170 Years Ago Today Sojourner Truth Delivers ‘Aint I a Woman’ Speech”