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A Dash Through Manhattans's National Parks

August 19, 2010, 7:14 am
Thank you, Eric Lurio at the Huffington Post, for this great feature on Manhattan's National Parks! The OhRanger.com team loves getting out to explore, and we hope this article will inspire other New Yorkers (and tourists!) to do the same: Well, fellow Manhattanites, August about halfway over, and being broke ...

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Visitor Center Opens At NY's African Burial Ground

March 1, 2010, 7:29 am
About 15,000 African slaves and their descendants were once unceremoniously buried under what is today Manhattan — and forgotten. On Saturday, a new visitor center opened near the rediscovered cemetery from the 17th and 18th centuries to celebrate the ethnic Africans who had toiled, many unpaid, to help make New ...

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Celebrate African American Heritage in America's National Parks

February 3, 2010, 4:22 pm
 American history is one of diversity; this nation was built upon a foundation of diversity with valuable contributions from many cultures. As Americans we are proud of our diverse cultural heritage and proud of the many Americans, celebrated and not, who played an important part in building our country. Many of the people ...

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