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Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.

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19th century President’s House a stately fixture at Union College

Sunday, February 24, 2008

By Bill Buell (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

Dormitory living was something of a novel idea in the first half of the 19th century, and Union College president Eliphalet Nott decided to take things a step further: He and his family would share living quarters with the student body....

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