The Historians

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The Historians with Bob Cudmore, Episode #500 on the way this November

History the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.

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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Tugboat captain Art Cohn discusses canal schooners, the tractor trailers of the Erie Canal.  Cohn was interviewed during the summer tour of the replica canal schooner Lois McClure.  Also on this episode, a visit to an authors’ fair at the Fulton County Museum in Gloversville.

Episode 484-Lorissa Rinehart has written a biography of groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle titled First to the Front.

The Sunday Read from The Gazette

Bob Cudmore Focus on History "It was in the air at Midnight"

To Waft

Amsterdam’s night time food wagons.

   In his 1980 book “Annals of a Mill Town,” Donlon wrote, “Wafted on the summer zephyr or swirled fiercely by the winter’s gale, the onionized fragrance of a McNally western egg sandwich could be sensed blocks away.”  A western egg sandwich cost a dime; a piece of pie was a nickel. 

North Chuctanunda Creek, Amsterdam, NY - Whitewater Kayaking

 
Urban creeking in Amsterdam, NY.

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Mohawk Valley  Weekend Weather, Saturday, July 22, 2023

65 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 6:29AM

Sunny, with a high near 81. West wind 8 to 10 mph.
Tonight
Patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 56. West wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Sunday
Patchy fog between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 84. West wind 3 to 7 mph.
 
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Saturday, July 22, 2023
 
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The HistoriansBy Bob Cudmore