Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/80

Engraving of a three-story structure with a stoop and a cupola

... that one of Albany, New York's former city halls (pictured) was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
... that 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
... that Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival, was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title?

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