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Citizen of Upstate: Le Moyne College journalist-in-residence, columnist for The Central Current, storyteller, TedX speaker, Godfather of Tolkien Reading Day
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Sean Kirst: What seemed impossible then is about to happen. It’s 25 years since Van Robinson made a public call to pull down I-81

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By Sean Kirst Verified
| Central Current
Over the last few days, I was trying to remember think of how one particular column, so long ago, came to be. In 2001, I was writing for Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. Certainly, I remember the late Van Robinson talking about the central question whenever we saw each other, whether at City Hall or elsewhere in downtown Syracuse.
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Sean Kirst: Orphaned at 11, a Manlius woman’s World War II journey in ‘footsteps’ of Buffalo parents she dearly missed

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By Sean Kirst Verified
| Central Current
For many years, the wedding dress and veil, wrapped in tissue paper, were stored in a cedar chest in Manlius. The dress was made from German parachute silk, the veil from gauze hospital bandages. Mary Leak Ward would open the chest sometimes to carefully touch that fabric, a complicated touchstone of deep love and sweeping loss. Last week, she figured out where the dress belongs. Her mom wore it on July 2, 1945, the day she married Mary’s dad in France.
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Sean Kirst: A Kirk Park gathering Saturday to unveil memorial for Al Turner, ‘who got the soul of it’ in community he loved

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By Sean Kirst Verified
| Central Current
The rebirth of the Kirk Park Colts happened 35 years ago. Mark and Karla Hall, a couple who sensed a fierce need in the heart of Syracuse, were at the center of that revival of Pop Warner youth football and cheerleading on the city’s South Side, a vision intertwined with imperatives about academics and community. The effort caught on in a lasting way.
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