Stories

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February 03, 2015

Searching for Ella

February 03, 2015/

New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.

October 23, 2014

October 23, 2014/

Excerpt from our oral history with Thomas Tunney, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.

September 22, 2014

September 22, 2014/

In 1904, the Women's House of Refuge was replaced by the New York State Training School for Girls, a juvenile reform institution in Hudson, NY.

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