history
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The Chateaugay Home Trade Improvement Society
A newspaper maxim meant to encourage contentment becomes an ingenious retail system once local merchants decide…
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The Office of Municipal Diminution
A seventeen-pound ledger records everything the town no longer does, while the machinery required to maintain…
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The Newspaper as Compositional Field
What happens when an 1884 newspaper becomes not merely evidence, but a bounded compositional field whose…
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THE BARBER DISCUSSES POLITICS WITH A RAZOR IN HAND
A nine-cent prisoner contract, one-dollar roads, and free county hanging leave Fort Covington officials chasing paperwork,…
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Wandering Spirit Haunts Chateaugay Depths
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”—Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I Steamboat…
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Göbeklian Practices Transforming Chateaugay Community
The Chateaugay Record highlights the cultural transformation of Chateaugay influenced by Göbeklian practices. Photographs by Jeremiah…
