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Paul Grondahl

Albany, Guilderland
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Opalka Endowed Director, NYS Writers Institute - University at Albany. Times Union columnist. Author of bios of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd & Teddy Roosevelt.

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Paul Grondahl is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at the Albany Times Union since 1984, where his assignments have taken him from the Arctic to Antarctica; from Northern Ireland to Africa; and from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; Haiti after the earthquake and to Ground Zero on 9/11.

His in-depth newspaper projects have won a number of journalism awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award; Scripps Howard National Journ…

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Grondahl: Albany’s vaunted Democratic machine ran on beer Original

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By Paul Grondahl
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Hedrick's Beer six-pack by Hedrick Brewing Company in Albany, N.Y. c.1960 Aluminum, cardboard, a gift of Anna Cipollo to the Albany Institute of History and Art in 1994. Provided by Albany Institute of History and Art Albany County Democratic boss Dan O’Connell is seen in an undated photo. O’Connell’s Hedrick Brewery, at 410 Central Ave., gave away kegs of beer to compete against Budweiser and other brewers.
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Grondahl: He predicted the world would end by fire on June 8, 1816. It snowed.

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By Paul Grondahl
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TROY - Two centuries before social media, Benjamin Gorton may have inadvertently launched the city's #TroyCrazy hashtag badge of honor by predicting the world was going to end by fire on June 8, 1816. The Revolutionary War veteran and prominent Troy merchant was an author and civic leader who had a large platform for his doomsday prophecy.
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By Paul Grondahl
| Times Union (Albany)
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