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Virtual Presentation: The Irish in the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys with Dr. Elizabeth Stack this evening, September 7, 2022 at 6:30 via Zoom
https://fultoncountyhistoricalsociety.org/events/
The exodus that institutionalized emigration from Ireland began just after the Napoleonic wars and the famines of 1817 and 1822; surged during and after the 1845-51 Great Hunger and continued spasmodically through the remainder of the century. By the mid nineteenth century, many of the Irish newcomers were poor, as opposed to the earlier ones who had been wealthy professionals. Some came up to this region from New York City, more down from Canada, to work on the canals, railroads, and factories.
Richard Hamm on what really happened during Prohibition. He is co-editor of “Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade.”
Michael Lewis and Richard Hamm
The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans’ “common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact.” Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era.
Thursday, September 8, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette— The Chalmers building
Many of the knitting mill’s employees were Italian-Americans who walked to work from their South Side homes.
Off the Digital press this Friday
Episode 439
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 Weather, Wednesday, September 7, 2022
An upper level disturbance will continue to bring some
scattered showers from the Capital Region south and west today with
lots of clouds. High pressure builds in from the east tonight
through Thursday with temperatures moderating back to seasonal
normals for early September. Fair and dry weather continues into
Friday with temperatures rising back above normal.
A chance of showers, mainly between 10am and 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 71. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers before 9pm. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Daily Gazette
National Grid predicting 39% higher heating bill for average customers this winter
Upstate New York residents should expect to pay more for heating costs this winter than they have in a decade…
Upstate New York residents should expect to pay more for heating costs this winter than they have in a decade…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
State Farm Laborers board advances plan to cut overtime threshold
The Farm Laborers Wage Board on Tuesday voted 2-1, as expected, to advance its report recommending...
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By Bob CudmoreVirtual Presentation: The Irish in the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys with Dr. Elizabeth Stack this evening, September 7, 2022 at 6:30 via Zoom
https://fultoncountyhistoricalsociety.org/events/
The exodus that institutionalized emigration from Ireland began just after the Napoleonic wars and the famines of 1817 and 1822; surged during and after the 1845-51 Great Hunger and continued spasmodically through the remainder of the century. By the mid nineteenth century, many of the Irish newcomers were poor, as opposed to the earlier ones who had been wealthy professionals. Some came up to this region from New York City, more down from Canada, to work on the canals, railroads, and factories.
Richard Hamm on what really happened during Prohibition. He is co-editor of “Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade.”
Michael Lewis and Richard Hamm
The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans’ “common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact.” Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era.
Thursday, September 8, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette— The Chalmers building
Many of the knitting mill’s employees were Italian-Americans who walked to work from their South Side homes.
Off the Digital press this Friday
Episode 439
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 Weather, Wednesday, September 7, 2022
An upper level disturbance will continue to bring some
scattered showers from the Capital Region south and west today with
lots of clouds. High pressure builds in from the east tonight
through Thursday with temperatures moderating back to seasonal
normals for early September. Fair and dry weather continues into
Friday with temperatures rising back above normal.
A chance of showers, mainly between 10am and 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 71. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A slight chance of showers before 9pm. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Daily Gazette
National Grid predicting 39% higher heating bill for average customers this winter
Upstate New York residents should expect to pay more for heating costs this winter than they have in a decade…
Upstate New York residents should expect to pay more for heating costs this winter than they have in a decade…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
State Farm Laborers board advances plan to cut overtime threshold
The Farm Laborers Wage Board on Tuesday voted 2-1, as expected, to advance its report recommending...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Make Us A Part Of Your Day
https://www.leaderherald.com/