Saturday, August 19, 2023-From the archives-September 17, 2021- Episode 388-Katie Turner Getty discusses the prison ships that England used to hold prisoners of war during the American Revolution. 

Katie Turner Getty on YouTube

The Battle of Bunker Hill did not "really happen" on Breed's Hill, and it didn't "only happen" on Breed's Hill. Hyperfocusing on "Breed's Hill" obscures other important actions on the Charlestown peninsula on June 17, 1775!

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Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle to play at Hyde Hall (Glimmerglass Park)
Hi Y'all -
For those in Upstate N.Y., today, Saturday (August 19, 2023 | 7:00 p.m.), Please Join Cosby and I as we will be doing sound and warming up for the band Bog Hollow (Tom White and his All-Star Band), w/a short set of Erie Canal songs so break out the lawn chairs for a summer folk concert!

Sunday, August 20, 2023-Focus on History-Stories from summers past in Amsterdam

An estimated 5,000 people attended a parade of  Polish residents in August, 1920, followed by a meeting at the State Armory where resolutions pledging support to the new Polish republic were adopted.

Historians Episode#488 on the way to #500 this Fall

Kiersten Marcil, author of the American Revolution historical novel Witness to the Revolution.

Kiersten Marcil YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x33QXqqzhU

https://www.kierstenmarcil.com/

Kiersten Marcil on Mohawk Valley Radio this Weekend

The Historians Podcast is heard at Noon on Saturday on WCSS, 1490 AM, 106.9 FM in Amsterdam and WKAJ, 1120 AM, 97.9 FM in St. Johnsville.  Historians Podcast airs weekly on RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind, and on WBDY 99.5 FM in Binghamton.

Trolleys of Amsterdam Presentation Offered

Fort Hunter, NY – Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will host Jerry Snyder to speak about the Trolleys of Amsterdam on Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 6:30pm.  The program will be held at 167 Fort Hunter Road at the Town of Florida Hall and Highway Department building.

https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/27/details.aspx

   The trolley era arrived in Amsterdam in 1874 with horse drawn cars and less than two miles of track on downtown streets. By the time it departed a comparatively short 64 years later, streamlined aluminum bodied electric coaches were providing first-class mile-a-minute transport to nearby cities and towns throughout the lower Mohawk Valley. Join us to hear the story of the origin, development, and demise of our local part of a now all-but-forgotten transportation system whose abandonment may, in hindsight, well have been premature.

Please note that this event takes place off site at the Town of Florida Barn next to the Fort Hunter Library.  The program will be preceded by a brief Friends of Schoharie Crossing Meeting and is free to the public.

Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, August 19, 2023

62 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 6:40AM

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