Friday, October 28, 2022-Episode 446- What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll is author of the memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”  Correll lived in the leather business for 50 years, from childhood up to when he left the business to return to Yale for an MBA.

Saturday, October 29, 2022- From the Archives-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- Episode 205, March 9, 2018, the late film historian Rob Edelman discusses his book “From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors.” Rob’s wife and film professor emeritus Audrey Kupferberg has stories of Jewish merchants in the thriving downtown of the 1950s in her native Amsterdam, New York.

Sunday, October 30, 2022 Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder. Shakspeare at the golf course 

It was chilly for July.  The performance was originally scheduled the night before but had been rained out. 

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Episode 438-Ricardo Herrera is author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778.  Herrera is visiting professor at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Carlisle Barracks is a United States Army facility located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The site of the U.S. Army War College, it is the nation's second-oldest active military base. The first structures were built in 1757, during the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France in the colonies

Looking south, down the hill and up the hill into The Town of Florida

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Thursday, October 27, 2022-How the town of Florida got its name.

How did the Montgomery County town of Florida get its name?  County historian Kelly Farquhar and town historian Tim Sievers pointed to a historical coincidence.

Friday, October 28, 2022-Episode 446- What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll is author of the memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”  Correll lived in the leather business for 50 years, from childhood up to when he left the business to return to Yale for an MBA.

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Ghosts in Montgomery County

By Bob Cudmore

   The reputed haunting of Widow Susan Road in the town of Amsterdam by Widow Susan DeGraff still gets attention from ghost hunters.  The road runs from Chapman Drive (formerly Route 5) up a hill to Route 67.

   Renee Mallet, in her book “Ghosts of New York’s Capital District,” wrote, “Most of the witnesses report seeing a lady in an old fashioned white dress, walking along Widow Susan Road, sometimes crying but always searching for something.”

   Local lore has it that driving down the road and chanting “Widow Susan” three times conjures the spirit.

   Susan Thomas, born in Perth in 1821, married Harmanus DeGraff in 1838. They lived at the bottom of the road on the east side.  Harmanus died around 1848, leaving Susan with the farm and several children.  

   Susan and a daughter later moved to Michigan where the widow died in 1892.  She was buried at Green Hill Cemetery on Church Street in Amsterdam.

   For some time the story was that Susan haunted her old neighborhood looking for her husband’s grave, thought to have been in a family cemetery.

   However, Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League found that Alonzo DeGraff, the widow’s son, purchased a plot at Green Hill in 1883 and had his father and other family members exhumed from where they were originally buried and moved to Green Hill.

   When Susan DeGraff died in 1892 she was buried next to her husband at Green Hill.  A historical marker to her was erected last year on Widow Susan Road.

   At a virtual presentation on local history organized by Montgomery County Historian Kelly Farquhar, Snyder said Green Hill “suffered devastation” in the October 7th windstorm.

   For example, a large tree fell on a 24-foot obelisk marking the burial plot of the Blood family, shattering the monument into three pieces. 

   Green Hill’s Cemetery Association is seeking funds to repair the damage to the burial ground.

   The Montgomery County Department of History and Archives is located in the county’s Old Courthouse in Fonda next to the railroad tracks.  Court proceedings were moved to a new courthouse in 1892.

   County historian Farquhar said there have been reports of ghost-like activities in the Old Courthouse where her office is located.

   Paranormal investigators came to the building some years back and heard voices in the lobby when nobody was there. 

   On the third floor investigators asked if any spirit was there.  No answer was heard but a tape the investigators made had the response “Linda” on the recording.  At different times people have seen a woman in a long blue dress walking on the building’s second floor. 

   Recently Farquhar said she saw a “little wisp” of something out of the corner of her eye as she was working.  A few days later while typing on her computer she heard a noise.  It sounded like something hit a cardboard box that was on a chair.  The chair holding the box began rocking slightly.

   Farquhar also asked to put the following inquiry to the public about Fonda’s Old Courthouse.  The second floor courtroom became vacant starting in 1892 when the court was moved to the current courthouse.  Partitions and offices were not constructed on the second floor until the 1950s.

   Farquhar has been told that functions were held in the former courtroom, such as wedding receptions.  If anyone has a picture documenting such a gathering at the Old Courthouse, she would enjoy seeing it.

Wednesday

Winter 1778 

Episode 438-Ricardo Herrera is author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778.  Herrera is visiting professor at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Florida formed as a township on March 12, 1793.  According to a document at the county archives by an unknown author, town officials looking for a name noticed that March 12 was the anniversary of explorer Ponce de Leon’s Easter Day landing on the coast of what he named Florida.   

Thursday, October 27, 2022-How the town of Florida got its name.

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Friday, October 28, 2022-Episode 446- What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll is author of the memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”  Correll lived in the leather business for 50 years, from childhood up to when he left the business to return to Yale for an MBA.

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Monday, October 24, 2022-The story behind the story.  Learning to be a Leatherman. 

This Friday Bobs conversation with Rod Correll

Episode 446- What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll is author of the memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”  Correll lived in the leather business for 50 years, from childhood up to when he left the business to return to Yale for an MBA.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Widow Susan Road

Susan Thomas, born in Perth in 1821, married Harmanus DeGraff in 1838. They lived at the bottom of the road on the east side.  Harmanus died around 1848, leaving Susan with the farm and several children.

Spent most of their time looking for food

Wednesday, October 26, 2022- Episode 438-Ricardo Herrera is author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778.  Herrera is visiting professor at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Learning to be a leatherman

By Bob Cudmore 

   What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll takes up that question and more in his memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”

   Rod, who lived some years in Gloversville, is descended from two important figures in the leather industry. 

   His grandfather, a German immigrant, founded Herman Loewenstein Incorporated in 1893, a respected export-import firm in New York City.

   Loewenstein’s son Rudy headed the business in the 1940s.  The son adopted his mother’s name, Correll, as his last name.  He purchased the Ellithorp tannery in Gloversville (formerly Cain’s tannery) in 1941 to prepare leather for his products.

   Rudy Correll’s company served the women’s high fashion shoe and handbag industries.   

   Rudy also created a New York City showroom to display colorful leather shoes and handbags to manufacturers and retailers.

   Born in 1935, Rod Correll worked summers learning about the family business, starting when he was about ten.  In New York City their company was in what was called The Swamp, the leather district near the Brooklyn Bridge. 

   When Rod was 17 his father offered him a “business before pleasure” deal.  The young man could take a bicycle trip through Scotland and England if he agreed to get his hands dirty for two weeks learning the ropes at the W.M.J. Martin tannery in Glasgow, Scotland. 

   “That was Rudy’s mantra, business with pleasure,” Rod said.  “He practiced that and preached it to me and I followed his rule.” 

   After his European adventure Rod came back to America, finished prep school, graduated from Yale in 1957 then worked at Herman Loewenstein.

   Within a few years Rudy suffered a stroke and heart attack.  “It was a stressful time,” Rod said. “My father kept control but he was not in a position to exercise that control.”  The firm’s executive vice president wanted to “move my father out.”

   Rod knew he had to understand how the Gloversville tannery worked “because it ended up that was where we were doing our business from.”

   Rod took over Herman Loewenstein when his father died in 1966.  The company and the industry were starting to fail.

   “Our customers in New York City, the shoe manufacturers and the handbag manufacturers were finding it very difficult to compete with imports.”

   After his father died bankers told Rod the company had been losing money for three years.  

   From 1971 to 1974 the firm did a phased withdrawal from New York City, moving operations to the Gloversville tannery.   

   Rod said, “We had 33 people in our operation in New York City and I had to let 30 of them go or find ways to transition them.

   “We offered them jobs in Gloversville.  It really didn’t make sense. Most of these people were in their 50s even some in their 60s.”

   Rod found a new product to make and sell, women’s cowhide boots.  That kept the struggling firm afloat several more years.  By 1979 a conglomerate bought the company. 

   Rod’s involvement with leather making ended in 1983 when he went back to Yale for a seminar and further M.B.A. training on leadership and motivation.

   Rod said, “I love the industry.  I had some wonderful times but it had not been my choice.  It had been my Dad’s choice.” 

   Rod and his wife Chloe live at Avila, a retirement community in Albany.  He sees his new book as a “legacy document” for their children.

   Rod has worked with the Family Firm Institute.  He advocates for building family companies that are not only financially successful but also rewarding places to work.  Rod said, “I learned how to build a group that trusted one another.”  

Thursday, October 27, 2022-From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—--How the town of Florida got its name.

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   Rod said, “I love the industry.  I had some wonderful times but it had not been my choice.  It had been my Dad’s choice.” 

Friday, October 28, 2022-Episode 446- What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll is author of the memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”  Correll lived in the leather business for 50 years, from childhood up to when he left the business to return to Yale for an MBA.

Learning to be a leatherman

By Bob Cudmore 

   What’s it like to be the boss’s son?  Rod Correll takes up that question and more in his memoir “Learning to Be a Leatherman-A Rite of Passage.”

   Rod, who lived some years in Gloversville, is descended from two important figures in the leather industry. 

   His grandfather, a German immigrant, founded Herman Loewenstein Incorporated in 1893, a respected export-import firm in New York City.

   Loewenstein’s son Rudy headed the business in the 1940s.  The son adopted his mother’s name, Correll, as his last name.  He purchased the Ellithorp tannery in Gloversville (formerly Cain’s tannery) in 1941 to prepare leather for his products.

   Rudy Correll’s company served the women’s high fashion shoe and handbag industries.   

   Rudy also created a New York City showroom to display colorful leather shoes and handbags to manufacturers and retailers.

   Born in 1935, Rod Correll worked summers learning about the family business, starting when he was about ten.  In New York City their company was in what was called The Swamp, the leather district near the Brooklyn Bridge. 

   When Rod was 17 his father offered him a “business before pleasure” deal.  The young man could take a bicycle trip through Scotland and England if he agreed to get his hands dirty for two weeks learning the ropes at the W.M.J. Martin tannery in Glasgow, Scotland. 

   “That was Rudy’s mantra, business with pleasure,” Rod said.  “He practiced that and preached it to me and I followed his rule.” 

   After his European adventure Rod came back to America, finished prep school, graduated from Yale in 1957 then worked at Herman Loewenstein.

   Within a few years Rudy suffered a stroke and heart attack.  “It was a stressful time,” Rod said. “My father kept control but he was not in a position to exercise that control.”  The firm’s executive vice president wanted to “move my father out.”

   Rod knew he had to understand how the Gloversville tannery worked “because it ended up that was where we were doing our business from.”

   Rod took over Herman Loewenstein when his father died in 1966.  The company and the industry were starting to fail.

   “Our customers in New York City, the shoe manufacturers and the handbag manufacturers were finding it very difficult to compete with imports.”

   After his father died bankers told Rod the company had been losing money for three years.  

   From 1971 to 1974 the firm did a phased withdrawal from New York City, moving operations to the Gloversville tannery.   

   Rod said, “We had 33 people in our operation in New York City and I had to let 30 of them go or find ways to transition them.

   “We offered them jobs in Gloversville.  It really didn’t make sense. Most of these people were in their 50s even some in their 60s.”

   Rod found a new product to make and sell, women’s cowhide boots.  That kept the struggling firm afloat several more years.  By 1979 a conglomerate bought the company. 

   Rod’s involvement with leather making ended in 1983 when he went back to Yale for a seminar and further M.B.A. training on leadership and motivation.

   Rod said, “I love the industry.  I had some wonderful times but it had not been my choice.  It had been my Dad’s choice.” 

   Rod and his wife Chloe live at Avila, a retirement community in Albany.  He sees his new book as a “legacy document” for their children.

   Rod has worked with the Family Firm Institute.  He advocates for building family companies that are not only financially successful but also rewarding places to work.  Rod said, “I learned how to build a group that trusted one another.” 

Tomorrow, Monday, October 24, 2022-The story behind the story.  Learning to be a Leatherman.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Widow Susan Road

The reputed haunting of Widow Susan Road in the town of Amsterdam by Widow Susan DeGraff still gets attention from ghost hunters.  The road runs from Chapman Drive (formerly Route 5) up a hill to Route 67.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022- Episode 438-Ricardo Herrera is author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778.  Herrera is visiting professor at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022-From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—--How the town of Florida got its name.

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Amsterdam’s Guy Park Manor to be restored as educational, park site
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 Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum says a film crew spent time in the Mohawk Valley in September scouting locations and shooting video for possible use in a Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution and Bob Cudmore and Dave Greene set the wayback machine for 1947 for tales of carpet school, the mill shutdown and big bands.

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

 Learning to be a Leatherman.

Born in 1935, Rod Correll worked summers learning about the family business, starting when he was about ten.  In New York City their company was in what was called The Swamp, the leather district near the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Posted early tomorrow, Friday, October 21, 2022

Schnakenberg’s second mural depicts life on the Erie Canal in the 1840s when the community called Port Jackson was a canal stop.  Port Jackson became the South Side of Amsterdam. 

Post Office murals still grab attention

By Bob Cudmore

Two murals at the Amsterdam Post Office painted in 1939 continue to generate interest, not only from postal customers but also from people who collect stamps.

The September/October issue of “Stamp Insider” magazine has a view of the murals taken in 1947 for a “National Geographic” story.  The picture shows young women buying stamps from postal clerks whose windows are below the mural depicting Colonial settler Sir William Johnson holding an outdoor meeting with Mohawk Indian chiefs. 

Focus on History contributor Emil Suda spotted the 2008 magazine picture contributed by Ronald K. Ratchford, historian of the Schenectady Stamp Club.

H.E. Schnakenberg painted the Amsterdam murals in 1939 as part of a federal government effort called the Treasury Department Art Projects.

Hugh Donlon, in his “Annals of a Mill Town,” said that colonist Johnson is depicted with a sword cane, one of the heirlooms still remaining at Johnson Hall in Johnstown.  Donlon said Schnakenberg used exhibits in Albany and Washington to come up with his ideas on Indian dress.

Schnakenberg’s second mural depicts life on the Erie Canal in the 1840s when the community called Port Jackson was a canal stop.  Port Jackson became the South Side of Amsterdam.  Donlon said Schnakenberg took details for the canal mural from stills from the 1935 movie “The Farmer Takes a Wife,” starring Henry Fonda and Janet Gaynor.

Schnakenberg was born in 1892 in Brighton, New York according to the Web site AskArt.  He was following in his father’s footsteps in the insurance business when he went to an art show and was convinced to follow a career in art.  He died in 1970 in Newtown, Connecticut and is remembered for his landscapes.

His Amsterdam murals were restored by artist Luci Suhr in 1974.

The murals were painted three years after the post office was built south of the library on Church Street.  The post office was a Depression-era public works project, designed by U.S. Treasury architect Louis Simony in the Colonial revival style.

The 1936 post office replaced a post office and federal building that had been constructed at Division and Wall Streets.

Historian Donlon said there was a quarter-century worth of complaints that the Division and Wall location was too far from the downtown business district.  Earlier, the post office in Amsterdam had occupied buildings on East Main and Market Streets.  The first Amsterdam post office opened in December 1803 at 20 Main Street.  The postmaster was James Downs.

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Voices of the Valley: A song cycle celebrating the Mohawk River Valley
Songs by Morris & Rivers | Featuring Alice Sorensen & Dylan Perrillo

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Songwriters Morris & Rivers present a world premiere evening of original tunes inspired by life in the Mohawk Valley, combining folk and musical theatre influences into stories both tender and uplifting. Featuring vocalist Alice Sorensen and bassist Dylan Perrillo, with Lecco Morris on piano and vocals. The creative team will conduct a talkback after the show. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Arts Center of the Capital Region.

The Fort Plain Museum with an upgrade on the way

Bobs conversation with Norm Bollen

Posted early tomorrow, Friday, October 21, 2022

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Episode 445- Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum says a film crew spent time in the Mohawk Valley in September scouting locations and shooting video for possible use in a Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution. 

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Bob Cudmore interviews from the Chronicle Book Fair in Glens Falls including organizer Cathy DeDe and authors David Fiske, John Briggs, Chuck D’Imperio, Barry Damsky, Russell Dunn, Sheila Myers, Jim LaBate, Don Papson and Larry Gooley.

Thursday

Post Office murals

H.E. Schnakenberg painted the Amsterdam murals in 1939 as part of a federal government effort called the Treasury Department Art Projects.

Tomorrow(Thursday) Night at The Mabee Farm

Voices of the Valley: A song cycle celebrating the Mohawk River Valley
Songs by Morris & Rivers | Featuring Alice Sorensen & Dylan Perrillo

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Songwriters Morris & Rivers present a world premiere evening of original tunes inspired by life in the Mohawk Valley, combining folk and musical theatre influences into stories both tender and uplifting. Featuring vocalist Alice Sorensen and bassist Dylan Perrillo, with Lecco Morris on piano and vocals. The creative team will conduct a talkback after the show. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Arts Center of the Capital Region.

The Fort Plain Museum with an upgrade on the way

Bobs conversation with Norm Bollen

Posted early this Friday, October 21, 2022

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Episode 445- Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum says a film crew spent time in the Mohawk Valley in September scouting locations and shooting video for possible use in a Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution. 

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When the play began “powerful calcium lights” illuminated the stage and trees with what the reviewer called “a bright but weird glow, which might be well described as exaggerated moonlight.”

Shakespeare at the golf course

By Bob Cudmore

   The Phil Kilfoil Company’s Woodland Players from New York City performed Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” on the grounds of the Antlers Club in Fort Johnson in 1904.  The private golf course, today known as Rolling Hills, had opened in 1901 on a 90 acre site.  The original clubhouse was built that year with a spectacular view of the Mohawk Valley from its veranda.

    The play was a hit, according to an anonymous review in the Amsterdam Recorder, even though the start of the outdoor production was delayed for a day by rain.  An estimated 350 people sat in camp chairs on a chilly evening to watch Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy on Wednesday, July 13.  Many in the audience arrived by trolley car.

   The play was performed atop a hill overlooking the clubhouse with the woods forming what the reviewer called “an ideal background” to a grassy stage.  Japanese lanterns lighted the audience “with a soft flickering light” and Minch’s local orchestra played popular songs before the play.

   When the play began “powerful calcium lights” illuminated the stage and trees with what the reviewer called “a bright but weird glow, which might be well described as exaggerated moonlight.”

   The reviewer said the entire company was good but gave special praise to Ivah M. Wills who played Rosalind, F.J. McCarthary as Touchstone and James A. Young as Jacques de Boys.

TROUBLE IN OSWEGO

   Shortly after leaving Amsterdam, theatrical producer Kilfoil was charged with passing bogus checks in Oswego.  The Oswego and Amsterdam papers reported on July 30 though that charges were dropped when Kilfoil’s business partner, Charles Wiegand, provided funds to back the checks.

   The Recorder said the actors apparently were among those not getting paid, “The company has been receiving money (presumably from Wiegand) and one by one the members are leaving Oswego as fast as their remittances arrive.  There will be no more Woodland Players, it is said, and both Wiegand and Kilfoil have expressed their intention of abandoning the dramatic field as a non-paying venture.”

   As Shakespeare wrote in “As You Like It,” “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.”

“SIS” GOLDEN

   Historian Jacqueline Murphy wrote that Genevieve “Sis” Golden remembered taking the trolley from West Main Street in Amsterdam to the Antlers to play with her former neighbor and friend, Thelma Lord, the golf professional’s daughter.  The Lords had lived on Phillips Street in Amsterdam until Phil Lord was appointed golf pro at the club and the family moved to a home adjacent to the grounds.

   Sis would board the trolley at the foot of Henrietta and get off at the Antlers station.  A long set of narrow wooden steps led from the trolley station to the clubhouse which sat on flat land.  “Sis” recalled that the group of men who formed the organization had first had a hunting lodge on the premises.  The location lent itself to ice skating in the winter on two ponds   Ice was cut from the ponds too and stored in an old barn to the north of the course.

THE FIRE

   On May 6 1965, Antlers golf course neighbor Mrs. Ray Smith was putting out milk bottles at her home when she heard a strange sound, which she realized was the burglar alarm at the golf course. She then saw that the clubhouse was on fire and alerted the Fort Johnson fire department.  The beautiful old clubhouse burned to the ground. 

   Historian Hugh Donlon wrote, “The replacement made a year later was smaller and lacked the spacious veranda that had contributed so much to summer social life of affluent Amsterdamians for 60 years.”

Tomorrow is Wednesday

Bob Cudmore interviews from the Chronicle Book Fair in Glens Falls including organizer Cathy DeDe and authors David Fiske, John Briggs, Chuck D’Imperio, Barry Damsky, Russell Dunn, Sheila Myers, Jim LaBate, Don Papson and Larry Gooley.

Then on Thursday

Post Office Murals

The September/October issue of “Stamp Insider” magazine has a view of the murals taken in 1947 for a “National Geographic” story.

The Fort Plain Museum to embark on a major expansion.

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Friday, October 21, 2022-Episode 445- Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum says a film crew spent time in the Mohawk Valley in September scouting locations and shooting video for possible use in a Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution. 

Mohawk Valley Weather, Tuesday, October 18, 2022

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