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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: March 16, 2011
Caption: Cohoes City Hall Plaque
Additional Description: This plaque, mounted outside beside the steps leading to the main entrance, features a poem, America, by Zionist rabbi Abba Hillel Silver:

America is more than millions of people
America is all that the races of the world have wished to be
America is the realization of what the ages have hoped and labored for
God built him a continent of glory and filled it with treasures untold
He carpeted it with soft rolling prairies and columned it with thundering mountains
He studded it with sweet flowing fountains and traced it with long winding streams
He planted it with deep shadowed forests and filled them with song
Then he called unto a thousand peoples and summoned the bravest among them
They came from the ends of the earth, each bearing a gift and a hope
The glow of adventure was in their eyes and in their hearts, the glory of hope
And out of the bounty of the earth and the labor of men
Out of the longing of hearts and the prayer of souls
Out of the memory of ages and the hopes of the world
God fashioned a nation in love
Blessed it with a purpose sublime
And called it America
Submitted: March 19, 2011, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p147480
File Size: 1.741 Megabytes

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