Rock Solid History News Digest 02.12.21

​She was the first Black person freed by Lincoln; her grave was paved over & story hardly known
Phil Luciano for the Journal Star (USA Today) (photo above courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association)

Meet Woodland Park’s world-renowned taxidermist
By Deborah Abrams Kaplan for NJ Monthly

New Jersey holds record for largest paid music concert in the US
Big Joe Henry for 101.5 FM

African American history: a past rooted in the Hudson Valley
David Levine for Hudson Valley Magazine

Why Army helicopters have Native American names
By Katie Lange for Defense.gov (photo below courtesy of Charles Rosemond)