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Saturday, June 18, 2022-From the Archives-Episode 78, September 20. 2015-Dennis Webster has written “Old Main: New York State Lunatic Asylum in Utica, N.Y.” 

Tomorrow, Sunday, June 19, 2022-Focus on History-What don’t you like about Amsterdam?

The Chamber of Commerce published a booklet of essays submitted by local people for a city improvement contest in 1946 called “What I Don’t Like About Amsterdam.”

   Few of us today actually remember 1946, but many who grew up in Amsterdam after World War II...

Episode 427

Journalist David Levine is author of “The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years.”  His book explains how Hudson New York for a time was part of the whaling industry.  He also includes stories about Alexander Hamilton, the Mohicans and slavery in the time of Dutch colonial rule.

Grant Cottage Wilton, New York

Free Family Fun Day

https://www.grantcottage.org/

Today, Saturday, June 18, 2022

Impoverished by a Ponzi-style swindle and dying of throat cancer, Ulysses S. Grant moved to the Cottage on June 16, 1885. With the love and support of his family, his publisher Mark Twain and the nation at large, he completed Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant only days before his death on July 23, 1885. The publication of this two-volume work ensured his family’s financial security and gave the world one of the most critically acclaimed memoirs by a U.S. president or historic military figure.

...about a week from now

Friday, June 24, 2022

Episode 428-Ben Kemp from Grant Cottage in Wilton N.Y., where Ulysses Grant died after completing his memoirs.

The Rome Historical Society

https://romehistoricalsociety.org/

In-person event

Time:1PM

-has invited local veterans and retirees of the former Griffiss Air Force Base to a special viewing of RHS’ Griffiss Air Force Base photograph collection today, Saturday, June 18, 2022

Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, June 18, 2022

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. Northwest wind 14 to 18 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. Northwest wind 9 to 15 mph.
Juneteenth
Sunny, with a high near 70. Northwest wind 13 to 17 mph.
 
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Saturday, June 18, 2022
 
Daily Gazette
 
Fulton County Baseball & Sports Hall of Fame inductions Saturday
GLOVERSVILLE — For the first time since 2019, the Fulton County Baseball & Sports Hall of Fame will host an…
 
$3.6M Parkhurst Field project set to break ground
GLOVERSVILLE – The Parkhurst Field Foundation will conduct the ceremonial groundbreaking for the $1.4 million Phase 1 construction of its…

https://dailygazette.com/

 
Amsterdam Recorder
 
NYPA chooses Amsterdam students’ designs to promote EV use
 
AMSTERDAM — A pair of environmentally conscious sophomores at Amsterdam High School designed...

https://www.recordernews.com/

Leader Herald

FULTON COUNTY, JOHNSTOWN, LOCAL NEWS, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, THE GLOVERSVILLE LEADER HERALD

https://www.leaderherald.com/

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The HistoriansBy Bob Cudmore