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Requiem: What remains is love by Maria Riccio Bryce will be performed this weekend—Friday, May 26 at 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Hackett Blvd., Albany; Saturday, May 27 at 7 p.m. First Reformed Church, 8 N. Church St., Schenectady and Sunday, May 28 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 42 Guy Park Ave., Amsterdam.

Maria Riccio Bryce on The Historians

Wednesday, May 24, 2023- Episode 95, January 24, 2016- Jewelry designer and historian Aja Raden with an account of how jewels have affected the course of history.  Raden is author of “Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession and How Desire Shapes the World.”

Thursday, May 25, 2023-Route 5-History on the highway

An approximately 30-mile stretch of Route 5 in Montgomery County is home to enough historic places to make for a day trip this summer for those who are keen on heritage tourism.  Most of the sites date back to the Colonial era.

Friday, May 26, 2023-Episode 476-Journalist Paul Kix documents how the 1963 desegregation campaign in Birmingham Alabama changed race relations in America.  Martin Luther King, Jr., was imprisoned and wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.  Kix’s book is titled You Have to Be Prepared to Die before You Can Begin to Live.

Coming in June

North Chuctanunda Creek Friends to Meet

   Friends of North Chuctanunda Creek Incorporated will celebrate National Trails Day at their first public meeting Saturday June 3, 2023 9:30 am at the Clock Tower Building, 37 Prospect Street in Amsterdam.  Maps will show completed trails and future construction.  There will be refreshments. An elevator to the top floor of the Clock Building will enable attendees to enjoy the view from the historic structure that once was part of Bigelow Sanford Carpet and later toymaker Coleco. Outdoors on June 3, John Naple will lead an optional mile-long walk along the North Chuctanunda Creek.  The walk will go through the former Sanford Mill Complex from Locust Avenue to Church Street, stop at the creek overlook in back of Kelloggs and Miller’s former linseed oil plant, and go down Church Street to opposite City Hall. The North Chuctanunda Creek provided water power to many of Amsterdam’s 19th century mills.

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Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, May 24, 2023

56 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 5:49AM

A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 73. Light and variable wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight
A chance of showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. North wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light northwest. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 65. North wind 7 to 9 mph.
 
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Wednesday, May 24, 2023
 
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