The Times Union Newspaper www.timesunion.com for Sunday, August 31, 2008, has an article on Watervliet's connection to the rescue of Charles Nalle, an escaped slave. Story is on Page B1 - The Perspective Section. If you want to read a more detailed account of this incident and see some interesting photograph's go to the Troy Irish Genealogy site www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/ click on LOCAL HISTORY and then click on Escaped Slave: Charles Nalle. This lengthy article on the TIGS website was excerpted from the book Troy's One Hundred Years - 1789-1889, published in 1891 by William H. Young, 7 and 9 First Street, Troy, NY. Regards, Bill McGrath Clifton Park, NY