FORMAN AND ZEN; COLUMN AND ZEN CENTER KEEP SYRACUSE FOUNDER'S MEMORY ALIVE.(Editorial)(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)(Column)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: February 27, 2008 | Copyright information

To the Editor:

Thank you for the column by Dick Case in the Feb. 23 edition of the Post-Standard about Joshua Forman, the first mayor of Syracuse. Forman's first Syracuse house, built in 1810, has been the home of the Zen Center of Syracuse since 1996.

From October 2006 through January 2007, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our stewardship of this beautiful structure, we mounted an exhibition of the life and times of Joshua Forman, with assistance from the Erie Canal Museum and the Onondaga Historical Association. We received a John DeFrancisco Heritage Grant for the ...

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