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The Historians Podcast 2022 fund drive now totals $1600. That’s just over 25% of our $6,000 goal for the year. Please donate online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022
Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Keep history alive at The Historians Podcast—where we’re working on Episode 418-Historian Bruce Dearstyne on celebrating New York State’s birthday. Thank you.
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity of making extensive tests with this plane through the helpfulness of Bartlett Arkell, president of Beech Nut," Earhart commented to the Canajoharie Courier...
Advertising Beech Nut chewing gum with an aviation pioneer
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History for March 19, 2022
Famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart once went on a national tour piloting an unusual aircraft to help Beech Nut sell chewing gum.
Beech Nut was then in Canajoharie. In 2010 Beech Nut, best known today for baby food, left Canajoharie and moved to the Town of Florida near Thruway Exit 27.
Earhart had come to the region in 1929 to read letters to Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic expedition on WGY shortwave station W2XAF,
Beech Nut sponsored Earhart’s 1931 cross-country flights in the Pitcairn Auto Gyro. The craft combined features of an airplane and a helicopter.
Historian Carl Johnson’s Website Hoxie reported the autogiro is “an odd hybrid craft that uses an unpowered rotor to develop lift, and an engine-powered propeller to develop thrust.”
In the 1930s some thought the autogiro, with its ability to fly slowly and land in small places, would be the future of aviation. Others feared the autogiro was dangerous.
Bruce H. Charnov of Hofstra University wrote. “The autogiro was invented by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva in an attempt to create an aircraft that could fly safely at low speeds.” He flew the first one in 1923 in Madrid.
Earhart was born in 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In 1931 she had established one record for the autogiro, piloting it to an altitude of 18,500 feet.
Charnov wrote Earhart had ordered her own autogiro when Beech Nut made an offer, “Seeing a publicity bonanza, the Beech Nut Packing Company, offered Earhart the use of its previously ordered (autogiro) if she would fly it coast-to-coast with the company logo painted on its side and accompanying promotion efforts related to its chewing gum. Brokered by her husband (George Palmer Putnam), who was known for his acumen at garnering publicity, she promptly canceled her order in favor of the Beech Nut Autogiro.”
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity of making extensive tests with this plane through the helpfulness of Bartlett Arkell, president of Beech Nut," Earhart commented to the Canajoharie Courier. Earhart is pictured in the cockpit of the autogiro which had Beech Nut logos in several places.
There was one mishap which damaged an autogiro during a landing on a field n Canajoharie. Earhart was not the pilot in that incident.
The editor of the Fort Plain Standard newspaper, Mohawk Valley historian Nelson Greene, longtime friend of Bartlett Arkell, did advance publicity for Earhart’s autogiro tour through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
After much preparation and orchestrated publicity, Earhart took off from Newark, New Jersey in May 1931 on her first transcontinental autogiro tour.
Charnov wrote, “At each stop (Earhart) lifted children to see the cockpit, shook hands with spectators, gave interviews, and often gave out samples of the Beech Nut chewing gum.”
However another aviator, John Miller, was also trying to set the autogiro record for the first transcontinental trip. Charnov wrote, “Arriving on June 6, 1931, in Oakland, California, (Earhart) discovered much to her amazement and her husband’s mercurial anger that John M. Miller had arrived in San Diego on May 28th.”
Deprived of the westbound transcontinental record, Earhart tried to claim a record flying the autogiro back to the East Coast. This didn’t happen as she had the first of three autogiro crashes in Abilene, Kansas. She ended up returning by train.
Some police agencies today use autogiros as they are less expensive to buy and maintain than helicopters.
Amelia Earhart was to come to a sudden, mysterious and tragic end in 1937. While on a round-the-world flight she and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean enroute from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island.
New York State Maple Weekend(Twice)
Today and Tomorrow, March 19-20, 2022
Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27, 2022
https://mapleweekend.nysmaple.com/
Episode 414-Annette Libeskind Berkovits discusses her historical novel “The Corset Maker” which tells the story of a courageous Orthodox Jewish teen, Rifka, who was living in Warsaw Poland in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. Rifka is loosely based on Annette’s mother Dora.
The Historians Internet and Radio Schedule
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/obudmore/annette-berkovitsthe-historiansfriday-march-18-022
Google https://podcasts.google.com/search/The%20Historians
This weekend on The New York Almanack https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/
Historians Podcast on the Radio in the city of Amsterdam
WCSS
106.9FM and1490 AM, following the Noon news today, Saturday, March 19, 2022.
Historians Podcast is also carried on Public Radio Albany WMHT 89.1FM RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind in the Capital District, Monday at 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. And listen to The Historians 5:30 p.m. Sunday on WBDY 99.5 FM in Binghamton, Southern Tier Radio
When the schedule updates the interview posts on the main news page of The New York State Museum and the on-line newsletter. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/state-history/news
No relation
The Bob Cudmore confab with Dana Cudmore
Tomorrow, Sunday, March 20, 2022
Episode 392-Dana Cudmore is the author of Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure and Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country. Cudmore focuses on caves of Schoharie and Albany counties, including Howe Caverns.
Mohawk Valley Weekend Elements and News Headlines, Saturday, March 19, 2022
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 5pm, then scattered showers. High near 59. East wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then isolated showers after 3am. Low around 44. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday
A chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Daily Gazette
COVID hospitalization hits seven-month lows in Capital Region, Mohawk Valley
ALBANY — New York hospitals on Thursday reported fewer than 1,000 COVID-positive inpatients for the first time since Aug. 4,…
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Troopers: Two charged in January Richmondville murder; 18yo and 17yo arrested
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RICHMONDVILLE – Two people have been arrested on murder charges in connection with a man’s shooting death in Richmondville in…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Amsterdam Water Department eyes filtration improvements
AMSTERDAM — An engineering firm has been hired for $34,500 to design a project to replace filters...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Staging a comeback: Johnstown High theater set to return after pandemic and resignation of longtime director
by Andrew Waite
https://www.leaderherald.com/
Utica OD
Mohawk Valley History in Lifestyle
https://www.uticaod.com/lifestyle/
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The Historians Podcast 2022 fund drive now totals $1600. That’s just over 25% of our $6,000 goal for the year. Please donate online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022
Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Keep history alive at The Historians Podcast—where we’re working on Episode 418-Historian Bruce Dearstyne on celebrating New York State’s birthday. Thank you.
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity of making extensive tests with this plane through the helpfulness of Bartlett Arkell, president of Beech Nut," Earhart commented to the Canajoharie Courier...
Advertising Beech Nut chewing gum with an aviation pioneer
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History for March 19, 2022
Famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart once went on a national tour piloting an unusual aircraft to help Beech Nut sell chewing gum.
Beech Nut was then in Canajoharie. In 2010 Beech Nut, best known today for baby food, left Canajoharie and moved to the Town of Florida near Thruway Exit 27.
Earhart had come to the region in 1929 to read letters to Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic expedition on WGY shortwave station W2XAF,
Beech Nut sponsored Earhart’s 1931 cross-country flights in the Pitcairn Auto Gyro. The craft combined features of an airplane and a helicopter.
Historian Carl Johnson’s Website Hoxie reported the autogiro is “an odd hybrid craft that uses an unpowered rotor to develop lift, and an engine-powered propeller to develop thrust.”
In the 1930s some thought the autogiro, with its ability to fly slowly and land in small places, would be the future of aviation. Others feared the autogiro was dangerous.
Bruce H. Charnov of Hofstra University wrote. “The autogiro was invented by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva in an attempt to create an aircraft that could fly safely at low speeds.” He flew the first one in 1923 in Madrid.
Earhart was born in 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In 1931 she had established one record for the autogiro, piloting it to an altitude of 18,500 feet.
Charnov wrote Earhart had ordered her own autogiro when Beech Nut made an offer, “Seeing a publicity bonanza, the Beech Nut Packing Company, offered Earhart the use of its previously ordered (autogiro) if she would fly it coast-to-coast with the company logo painted on its side and accompanying promotion efforts related to its chewing gum. Brokered by her husband (George Palmer Putnam), who was known for his acumen at garnering publicity, she promptly canceled her order in favor of the Beech Nut Autogiro.”
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity of making extensive tests with this plane through the helpfulness of Bartlett Arkell, president of Beech Nut," Earhart commented to the Canajoharie Courier. Earhart is pictured in the cockpit of the autogiro which had Beech Nut logos in several places.
There was one mishap which damaged an autogiro during a landing on a field n Canajoharie. Earhart was not the pilot in that incident.
The editor of the Fort Plain Standard newspaper, Mohawk Valley historian Nelson Greene, longtime friend of Bartlett Arkell, did advance publicity for Earhart’s autogiro tour through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
After much preparation and orchestrated publicity, Earhart took off from Newark, New Jersey in May 1931 on her first transcontinental autogiro tour.
Charnov wrote, “At each stop (Earhart) lifted children to see the cockpit, shook hands with spectators, gave interviews, and often gave out samples of the Beech Nut chewing gum.”
However another aviator, John Miller, was also trying to set the autogiro record for the first transcontinental trip. Charnov wrote, “Arriving on June 6, 1931, in Oakland, California, (Earhart) discovered much to her amazement and her husband’s mercurial anger that John M. Miller had arrived in San Diego on May 28th.”
Deprived of the westbound transcontinental record, Earhart tried to claim a record flying the autogiro back to the East Coast. This didn’t happen as she had the first of three autogiro crashes in Abilene, Kansas. She ended up returning by train.
Some police agencies today use autogiros as they are less expensive to buy and maintain than helicopters.
Amelia Earhart was to come to a sudden, mysterious and tragic end in 1937. While on a round-the-world flight she and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean enroute from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island.
New York State Maple Weekend(Twice)
Today and Tomorrow, March 19-20, 2022
Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27, 2022
https://mapleweekend.nysmaple.com/
Episode 414-Annette Libeskind Berkovits discusses her historical novel “The Corset Maker” which tells the story of a courageous Orthodox Jewish teen, Rifka, who was living in Warsaw Poland in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. Rifka is loosely based on Annette’s mother Dora.
The Historians Internet and Radio Schedule
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/obudmore/annette-berkovitsthe-historiansfriday-march-18-022
Google https://podcasts.google.com/search/The%20Historians
This weekend on The New York Almanack https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/
Historians Podcast on the Radio in the city of Amsterdam
WCSS
106.9FM and1490 AM, following the Noon news today, Saturday, March 19, 2022.
Historians Podcast is also carried on Public Radio Albany WMHT 89.1FM RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind in the Capital District, Monday at 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. And listen to The Historians 5:30 p.m. Sunday on WBDY 99.5 FM in Binghamton, Southern Tier Radio
When the schedule updates the interview posts on the main news page of The New York State Museum and the on-line newsletter. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/state-history/news
No relation
The Bob Cudmore confab with Dana Cudmore
Tomorrow, Sunday, March 20, 2022
Episode 392-Dana Cudmore is the author of Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure and Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country. Cudmore focuses on caves of Schoharie and Albany counties, including Howe Caverns.
Mohawk Valley Weekend Elements and News Headlines, Saturday, March 19, 2022
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 5pm, then scattered showers. High near 59. East wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then isolated showers after 3am. Low around 44. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday
A chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Daily Gazette
COVID hospitalization hits seven-month lows in Capital Region, Mohawk Valley
ALBANY — New York hospitals on Thursday reported fewer than 1,000 COVID-positive inpatients for the first time since Aug. 4,…
ALBANY — New York hospitals on Thursday reported fewer than 1,000 COVID-positive inpatients for the first time since Aug. 4,…
Troopers: Two charged in January Richmondville murder; 18yo and 17yo arrested
RICHMONDVILLE – Two people have been arrested on murder charges in connection with a man’s shooting death in Richmondville in…
RICHMONDVILLE – Two people have been arrested on murder charges in connection with a man’s shooting death in Richmondville in…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Amsterdam Water Department eyes filtration improvements
AMSTERDAM — An engineering firm has been hired for $34,500 to design a project to replace filters...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Staging a comeback: Johnstown High theater set to return after pandemic and resignation of longtime director
by Andrew Waite
https://www.leaderherald.com/
Utica OD
Mohawk Valley History in Lifestyle
https://www.uticaod.com/lifestyle/