ALBANY — “Those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it.”
Attributed to philosopher George Santayana, it’s a favorite saying of Christoph Schmauch — former longtime director, with wife Kit, of the World Fellowship Center in Albany, a place where history has heightened meaning in this year of COVID, Joe Biden’s election and President Donald Trump’s upheaval of the electoral process.
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