Resources
The very first task the US Constitution sets before us is daunting: how do we as a nation build a more perfect union? This website, in some small measure, seeks to address that challenge. Building a more perfect union is an ongoing process. As citizens, we are called upon both to look around and look back, in order to ensure that ALL people who are part of our nation are represented in its evolving story.
It is through the gathering and recording, through the organizing and interpreting of information that our nation is made “more perfect,” - not fully perfect, but more perfect. This project has sought to contribute to “building a more perfect union” by portraying a poor, rural, multi-racial community, where free Blacks owned land as early as 1795 in slave-ridden New York State. The resources identified here are designed to expand our understanding and appreciation of who lived and continue to live in our relatively rural, upstate NY community
We are using the resource pages to point readers to other relevant online sites and to written material that may interest them and is relevant.
A link to the videotaped play by David Gonzalez, entitled Falcon Ridge because it is a composite of the two communities and because it does not adhere completely to historical time, will also be included here.