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The family unit is observed to be closely placed together in the kitchen of a migrant shelter. The photograph is identified to be taken in Prattsburg in 1990, at an undisclosed farm. The back of the photograph states in writing, "Prattsburg, '90;…

This program accompanied a wide-ranging gallery show created by the Geneseo Migrant Center's Folk Arts Program in 1986. Its focus was that seasonal farm workers from the American South, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica "share common roots, a journey…

Near the location of the Groveland Shaker Colony (1837-1892), and then the Craig Colony for Epileptics (1894-1988) was a tract of land sometimes called the "Big Woods." By the early 1960s, the de-institutionalization movement presaged closure of the…