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Other Voices

Other Voices

Written by: The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post
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Often, truth isn’t handed down from public officials but comes from listening to other voices. Once a week, you can hear a wide variety of views from people who shape our corner of the world in New York’s Capital Region. The Altamont Enterprise is the weekly newspaper of record for Albany County, New York.

We’ve talked with a Buddhist who provided therapy for Gilda Radner and then helped set up Gilda’s Club after she died; with a Muslim woman who is trying to educate people about her religion as she feels increased hatred; with an African-American man who, as a teenager, helped ferry people north from a town in Mississippi haunted by lynchings.

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Episodes
  • Gerard Wallace’s lifetime and work on kinship care

    Gerard Wallace’s lifetime and work on kinship care
    Feb 5 2026

    Gerard Wallace, who grew up in Brooklyn, suffered as a child and so devoted his career to ending childhood suffering.

    Retired now, he lives in the rural Helderbergs and believes some of the worst suffering happens in rural areas.

    Wallace, a lawyer who advocated for kinship family rights, had a hand in creating a dozen laws in New York state that gives grandmothers and other kin rights in caring for children whose parents are unfit.


    “Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.”

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Laure-Jeanne Davignon and John Anderson, Friends of Thacher State Park

    Laure-Jeanne Davignon and John Anderson, Friends of Thacher State Park
    Jan 23 2026
    The Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center is being reimagined so that kids will be able to crawl into a giant honeycomb or tree to learn about meadows and forests or “dig” for fossils to learn about the Devonian sea. The Friends of Thacher State Park are helping to fund the transformation.

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    25 mins
  • The tale of two generous men and a bygone era

    The tale of two generous men and a bygone era
    Dec 24 2025
    Bob Flynn has written a book — titled “Tork’s Hill & Mead’s Pond” — about two Voorheesville men who used their private property to create what he terms “winter wonderlands” where he and his friends could gather. Flynn’s book captures an earlier time when kids played outside — even in cold winters — and when there was a sense of community, a sense of place, and a sense of trust. Read more at altamontenterprise.com.

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    27 mins
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