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Christina Baker Kline


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Today in The Saturday Gazette

Stone markers kept prisoners from straying

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Christina Baker Kline discusses her historical novel “A Piece of the World.”  The book deals with artist Andrew Wyeth and Christina Olson, pictured in his provocative 1948 painting, “Christina’s World.” 

From the New York Times best-selling author of the smash best seller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.

The Historians Podcast "on the radio" today at 12:05PM

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

   Fans of local history attended gatherings late this summer, a few for the first time since the pandemic started. At a Sixties Forever Amsterdam reunion...

Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley

September 

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Friday, September 16-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

Friday, September 23-Episode 441-Giovanni Ruscitti of Colorado is author of the memoir Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage.  Ruscitti chronicles the history of his Italian immigrant family and a visit to his ancestral homeland of Abruzzo.

Friday, September 30-Episode 442-Veteran Associated Press reporter Chris Carola, now a freelance writer, looks at the life of Revolutionary War era Mohawk chief Joseph Brant.   A warrior and diplomat, Brant is memorialized with a sculpture on the outside of the New York State capitol building in Albany.

Highlights Episode Four with excerpts from a history of the Mohawk River with Mary Zawacki of Schenectady County Historical Society; Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, on a national family history TV show visit to Fonda; Susanne Dunlap discusses The Portraitist, a novel based on the life of an 18th century French artist; Stephen Williams, author of Off the Northway on the history of the GlobalFoundries semiconductor facility in Malta; Bob Cudmore on Ukrainians in Amsterdam and Rick Herrera, author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778.

Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, September 10, 2022

Morning sun mixes with cirrus clouds through the day
today as high pressure begins to shift to our east. Temperatures
will also be a bit warmer today as well with high temperatures
expected to climb into the mid to upper 80s along the river valleys.
Clouds will continue to increase and lower in elevation during the
day on Sunday as an upper level disturbance approaches the region. A
few showers are possible, mainly west of the Hudson River Valley.
Temperatures on Sunday will be cooler than Monday or closer to
seasonable levels.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Light and variable wind.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Calm wind.
Sunday
A slight chance of showers after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
 
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Friday, September 9, 2022
 
Daily Gazette
 
Fulton County stuck with big mental health bill
JOHNSTOWN — Since December, Fulton County taxpayers have been billed a combined $282,338 for a court-ordered mental health restoration treatment…

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Amsterdam Recorder
 
High schools: Fort Plain squeaks out win over rival Canajoharie in boys’ soccer
 
Stephen Gray and Cameron David each scored twice to lead Fort Plain to a 4-3 win over rival...

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