Attend the Tale of the Clever Barbers of First Street (And More!)

An essay celebrating Black History month and the wealth of history we are still discovering and proclaiming.

(Young Peter Baltimore, 1840. A rare portrait of an African American man from this period. In the collection of the Hart Cluett Museum, Troy, NY)

I recently presented a lecture on the great Troy civil and landscape engineer, Garnet Douglass Baltimore, who lived in the late 19th through the mid-20th century. He was the first African American to be accepte…