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Saturday, October 15, 2022-A look at movie star Kirk Douglas’s roots in Amsterdam, N,Y, featuring WGY radio audio from June 1, 1985, Kirk Douglas Day in Amsterdam.

Today-Two Bob Cudmore Interviews on radio-WCSS Amsterdam 106.9FM

David Pietrusza at 12:05 and Dana Cudmore at 12:35 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 the Howe Caverns tourist attraction. 

Sunday The remarkable life of Susie Sardonia

Mr. Susie Sardonia

Episode 444-David Pietrusza is author of “Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal.”

The Historians Podcast needs to raise $100.00 this weekend. Please help us reach our $6000 goal this year. (Now $4900.00)  On-line or The U.S. Mail  https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  A check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302.

Iroquois Museum

324 Caverns Road

Howes Cave, N.Y. 

Call Ahead-518-296-8949

Today, Saturday, October 15, 2022 from 10 to 4 - Early Technology Day

https://www.iroquoismuseum.org/

Visitors can watch and participate in the process of flint knapping (the ancient art of making chipped stone tools), fire making, cordage making, atlatl spear throwing and early archery.  There will be displays of projectile points, tools, and local archaeological finds from the Museum’s archaeology department.  Think you've found an artifact? Please bring it with you and the Museum’s experts will be glad to try to identify it for you.

Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, October 15, 2022

After a cool start with patchy fog, today will be partly
to mostly sunny with a mild afternoon. Although most of the area
will stay dry, a stray shower can`t be ruled out over the
Adirondacks. Dry and slightly cooler weather is expected on Sunday
before a cold front brings cloudy weather with some showers for
Monday.
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Sunday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Light west wind.
 
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Saturday, October 15, 2022
 
Daily Gazette
 
Lawsuit: Schenectady County, city school district failed to investigate child abuse
SCHENECTADY — Multiple local and state agencies — including the Schenectady County Office of Children and Family Services, the Schenectady City School…
 
https://dailygazette.com/
 
RecorderNews
 
Amsterdam reviewing pedestrian safety after student hit by car walking to bus stop
 
AMSTERDAM — Measures to bolster pedestrian safety around the area of Forest Avenue and Church...
 
https://www.recordernews.com/

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The HistoriansBy Bob Cudmore