The Hot Summer of 1986

Vol. IV, No. 20 - Forty Years Ago This Week, Our Town Changed Forever

Forty years ago this week, Troy woke up to a reality many residents still insist could never happen here. Many people who live here now have never heard this story, or only know it in fragments. But it is part of our history, and if we want to understand who we are as a community today, we have to be willing to look at the events that were painful as well as the ones we like to celebrate.