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Saturday, September 17, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- Friday, January 24, 2020-Episode 302-Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz has a story about blackouts during World War II plus the tale of W.C. Porter, the absconding drummer and the convicted man who convinced a friend to go to jail in his place.

Tomorrow Morning, Sunday, September 18, 2022

Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder- Stone markers guarded the county jail

By 1838, a jail and courthouse had been built in Fonda at a cost of $30,500.  The jail was located where the Department of Public Works facility is today, behind the Old Courthouse...

Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

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From The Historians Digital Production Room, now working on an interview with David Pietrusza "Roosevelt sweeps nation in 1936"

Wednesday, September 14, 2022- Jim Kaplan tells the story of African American real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton, who helped develop Harlem as a center of black culture.

Tomorrow

Lynch said Amsterdam is “a splendid city” just as “the cruiser Amsterdam is a splendid ship.” 

U.S.S. Amsterdam 

Picture:U.S. Navy

Friday, September 16, 2022-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

Saturday, September 17, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- Friday, January 24, 2020-Episode 302-Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz has a story about blackouts during World War II plus the tale of W.C. Porter, the absconding drummer and the convicted man who convinced a friend to go to jail in his place.

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Markers kept prisoners from straying

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History this Sunday, September 18, 2022

   Back in 1840, jail limit markers were established throughout the state including Montgomery County...

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Carpet mill book honored war effort

By Bob Cudmore

Two years after the end of World War II, Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam published a small picture book called “Smoke: The Story of a Fight.”

The title linked the smoke of hearth fires and factories, “the servant of man,” with the smoke of warfare, “the master.”

The book cover was made of canvas, produced at Mohawk. Amsterdam’s two major employers, Mohawk and Bigelow-Sanford, converted production from carpets to canvas and blankets during the war.  Millions of yards of cotton canvas were made in Amsterdam and used for tents, tarpaulins and gun covers. Local mills also produced more than five million blankets.

According to “Smoke,” “Men lived in blankets. Men waited in blankets. Men fought in blankets. Men died in blankets.”

“Smoke” lauded blood, bond and salvage drives on the home front, "It got so you didn't dare put your evening paper down for fear of losing it to the salvage drive."  Copies of the book are still sold online.

The author of “Smoke” was Reginald Harris.  A native of England who came to America when he was 18 months old, Harris worked in personnel at the carpet company, was convention director and personal assistant to the company president.

From 1940 until his unexpected death at age 55 in 1960, Harris directed vocal music groups sponsored by the carpet mill, most notably the Mohawk Mills Chorus, predecessor of today's Mohawk Valley Chorus. He was organist and choir director at St. Ann's Episcopal Church.

A reader recalled that another friend of Mohawk executive Herbert Shuttleworth II also had something to do with the creation of “Smoke.”  The recollection was that Shuttleworth brought a fellow Army veteran back to Amsterdam after the war.   Shuttleworth was a major in the U.S. Army’s Quartermaster Corps from 1942 to 1945.

Shuttleworth headed Mohawk Carpets and later the Mohasco Corporation.  Born in Amsterdam in 1913, Shuttleworth was the third generation of his family to preside over the carpet company.  He was a Mohawk vice president from 1940 to 1948, executive vice president until 1952 when he became company president.  He retired in 1980 and the firm’s corporate headquarters moved to Georgia soon after.  He died September 11, 2010.

Shuttleworth was a philanthropist who supported many charities.  He was owner of the Amsterdam Rugmakers, a minor league baseball team, in the 1940s and 1950s.  The former Mohawk Mills Park where the Rugmakers played was renamed in Shuttleworth’s honor after it was rebuilt in the 1970s.

SAINT KATERI SUPPORTER

The efforts of Amsterdam industrialist Thomas Constantino in support of the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church have been recognized in a church publication.  Saint Kateri was born in what is now Auriesville in the 1600s and lived for a time at a Mohawk village near present day Fonda.

The Evangelist newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany reported that Constantino used his Noteworthy Company to promote Kateri's sainthood for two decades.  He reproduced hundreds of thousands of paintings, cards and coloring books.  He traveled to Italy and met Pope John Paul II as part of his campaign to advance Kateri’s cause.

Constantino commissioned artist John Steele to paint a portrait of Kateri and sculptor Frederick Shrady to create a bronze statue of the saint.  Constantino died in 1989.  His widow Carol told the Evangelist, “I can't think of a greater tribute and sense of well-being for my husband, that something he worked so hard on has come to fruition." 

Wednesday, September 14, 2022- Friday, October 2, 2020-Episode 338- Jim Kaplan tells the story of African American real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton, who helped develop Harlem as a center of black culture.

This Thursday

U.S.S. Amsterdam 

Roosevelt approved the name Amsterdam for a light Navy cruiser in 1940.  However, that vessel was converted to an aircraft carrier and launched in 1942 as the U.S.S. Independence.  Work began on what would become the cruiser U.S.S. Amsterdam in 1943. 

Picture:U.S. Navy

Friday, September 16, 2022-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

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Tomorrow, the cover was made of canvas

Good guess this little booklet is a collectors item today

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Little booklet backed WW II effort

The book cover was made of canvas, produced at Mohawk. Amsterdam’s two major employers, Mohawk and Bigelow-Sanford, converted production from carpets to canvas and blankets during the war. 

Wednesday, September 14, 2022- Friday, October 2, 2020-Episode 338- Jim Kaplan tells the story of African American real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton, who helped develop Harlem as a center of black culture.

Picture:U.S. Navy

Thursday, September 15, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—U.S.S. Amsterdam 

Arch D. Anderson, commander of the James T. Bergen American Legion post, contacted the Navy in 1938 to begin the campaign to get a ship named for Amsterdam.  The Chamber of Commerce got behind the idea as did Mayor Arthur Carter, who knew President Franklin Roosevelt from Roosevelt’s days in Albany.

Friday, September 16, 2022-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley

By Bob Cudmore

   Fans of local history attended gatherings late this summer, a few for the first time since the pandemic started.

   At a Sixties Forever Amsterdam reunion for several graduating years in the 1960s, one participant had a blunt remark for me about radio.  I was invited to the gathering at a new banquet hall on the South Side although my graduating class was older than the classes invited.

   The man told me he had gone to the 1965 Dave Clark Five movie at the Mohawk Theatre sponsored by WAFS radio in Amsterdam.  Only a handful of people joined him. 

   I remember a little about that day in 1965 when I worked at WAFS but recalled that Tom Stewart remembered more. 

   Stewart was a 1965 graduate of Amsterdam High who worked at WAFS that summer.  He may be best remembered in Amsterdam for playing King Arthur in Camelot, a production staged by the late drama director Bert DeRose.  Stewart lives in New York City and for many years has been the announcer on public television raising funds for the PBS station there.

   Stewart wrote, “Yes, the movie was “Catch Us If You Can” and I think it was actually at the Tryon.  Don’t know how the station got involved but am thinking that that some advance person enlisted our help.

   “My strongest memory is traveling to the Dave Clark Five’s hotel in Albany and wangling my way in to meet them; used a very primitive tape recorder and they kindly recorded a few promos for our air.  We promoted the movie premiere incessantly which led to the big event. 

   “As whoever you spoke to recalled, it was a major bust!  The numbers were few and we were shocked at the lack of turnout; so much for the power of media!”

This coming Sunday, September 18, 2022-Stone markers kept prisoners from straying

THE MOHAWK ENCAMPMENT

   An event held August 27 at the Old Courthouse in Fonda marked the 250th anniversary of the creation of Tryon County, the British colonial name for what became Montgomery County.

   There were historical bus tours, artisan and militia reenactors, tables staffed by Historic Amsterdam League and Nellis Tavern in St. Johnsville.  Plus there were cannon shots and a new promotional video for the Department of History and Archives narrated by Montgomery County Historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar.

   What got one Canajoharie couple talking at my table though was a story I displayed on the Mohawk Encampment. 

   In June, 1957 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied land near the Schoharie Creek on the south side of the Mohawk River and remained there until evicted by court order in the spring of 1958.

   The settlers were led by Chief Standing Arrow, also known as Frank Johnson. The encampment was to repossess part of a tract the Mohawks said was not included in land ceded to the U.S. government by the Iroquois Confederacy in the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1784.

   In October 1957, world-renowned man of letters, Edmund Wilson, visited the encampment and Chief Standing Arrow.

   Wilson described the encounter in his 1959 book, “Apologies to the Iroquois.” Wilson found that Standing Arrow was part of an Iroquois nationalist movement.

   Montgomery County Sheriff Alton Dingman served the first eviction notices on the Mohawk settlement along the Schoharie Creek in January 1958.

   In March 1958, 25 people were reported still living at the Schoharie Creek site.  A court hearing that month resulted in another eviction order.  Some of the Mohawk huts were burned. 

   The Mohawks were offered land in the town of Fulton in Schoharie County as an alternative site in the area but if there was a settlement there, it was short lived.

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This Friday, September 16, 2022-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

About a village like Ilion--first settled almost three centuries ago--stories abound that make for engaging reading. Some are in praise of people who either inhabited or visited the town, while others highlight important events that occurred there and the places where they happened.

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Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History

   Fans of local history attended gatherings late this summer, a few for the first time since the pandemic started.

   At a Sixties Forever Amsterdam reunion for several graduating years in the 1960s, one participant had a blunt remark for me about radio.  I was invited to the gathering at a new banquet hall on the South Side although my graduating class was older than the classes invited.

   The man told me he had gone to the 1965 Dave Clark Five movie at the Mohawk Theatre sponsored by WAFS radio in Amsterdam.  Only a handful of people joined him. 

   I remember a little about that day in 1965 when I worked at WAFS but recalled that Tom Stewart remembered more. 

   Stewart was a 1965 graduate of Amsterdam High who worked at WAFS that summer.  He may be best remembered in Amsterdam for playing King Arthur in Camelot, a production staged by the late drama director Bert DeRose.  Stewart lives in New York City and for many years has been the announcer on public television raising funds for the PBS station there.

   Stewart wrote, “Yes, the movie was “Catch Us If You Can” and I think it was actually at the Tryon.  Don’t know how the station got involved but am thinking that that some advance person enlisted our help.

   “My strongest memory is traveling to the Dave Clark Five’s hotel in Albany and wangling my way in to meet them; used a very primitive tape recorder and they kindly recorded a few promos for our air.  We promoted the movie premiere incessantly which led to the big event. 

   “As whoever you spoke to recalled, it was a major bust!  The numbers were few and we were shocked at the lack of turnout; so much for the power of media!”

Next Sunday, September 18, 2022-Stone markers kept prisoners from straying

THE MOHAWK ENCAMPMENT

   An event held August 27 at the Old Courthouse in Fonda marked the 250th anniversary of the creation of Tryon County, the British colonial name for what became Montgomery County.

   There were historical bus tours, artisan and militia reenactors, tables staffed by Historic Amsterdam League and Nellis Tavern in St. Johnsville.  Plus there were cannon shots and a new promotional video for the Department of History and Archives narrated by Montgomery County Historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar.

   What got one Canajoharie couple talking at my table though was a story I displayed on the Mohawk Encampment. 

   In June, 1957 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied land near the Schoharie Creek on the south side of the Mohawk River and remained there until evicted by court order in the spring of 1958.

   The settlers were led by Chief Standing Arrow, also known as Frank Johnson. The encampment was to repossess part of a tract the Mohawks said was not included in land ceded to the U.S. government by the Iroquois Confederacy in the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1784.

   In October 1957, world-renowned man of letters, Edmund Wilson, visited the encampment and Chief Standing Arrow.

   Wilson described the encounter in his 1959 book, “Apologies to the Iroquois.” Wilson found that Standing Arrow was part of an Iroquois nationalist movement.

   Montgomery County Sheriff Alton Dingman served the first eviction notices on the Mohawk settlement along the Schoharie Creek in January 1958.

   In March 1958, 25 people were reported still living at the Schoharie Creek site.  A court hearing that month resulted in another eviction order.  Some of the Mohawk huts were burned. 

   The Mohawks were offered land in the town of Fulton in Schoharie County as an alternative site in the area but if there was a settlement there, it was short lived.

Hello Everybody, a new week on The Historians

Tomorrow, Monday, September 12, 2022- The story behind the story podcast- Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Little booklet backed WW II effort

Two years after the end of World War II, Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam published a small picture book called “Smoke: The Story of a Fight.”

The title linked the smoke of hearth fires and factories, “the servant of man,” with the smoke of warfare, “the master.”

Wednesday, September 14, 2022- Friday, October 2, 2020-Episode 338- Jim Kaplan tells the story of African American real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton, who helped develop Harlem as a center of black culture.

Thursday, September 15, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—U.S.S. Amsterdam 

Friday, September 16, 2022-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

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Stone markers kept prisoners from straying

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Christina Baker Kline discusses her historical novel “A Piece of the World.”  The book deals with artist Andrew Wyeth and Christina Olson, pictured in his provocative 1948 painting, “Christina’s World.” 

From the New York Times best-selling author of the smash best seller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

   Fans of local history attended gatherings late this summer, a few for the first time since the pandemic started. At a Sixties Forever Amsterdam reunion...

Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley

September 

The Digital Press working Overtime

Friday, September 16-Episode 440-Joe Collea Junior is author of Our Town--Ilion, New York: a Selective Look at 300 Years of History.  An Ilion native, Collea was a teacher and administrator in Ilion schools and served three terms as mayor of the village.

Friday, September 23-Episode 441-Giovanni Ruscitti of Colorado is author of the memoir Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage.  Ruscitti chronicles the history of his Italian immigrant family and a visit to his ancestral homeland of Abruzzo.

Friday, September 30-Episode 442-Veteran Associated Press reporter Chris Carola, now a freelance writer, looks at the life of Revolutionary War era Mohawk chief Joseph Brant.   A warrior and diplomat, Brant is memorialized with a sculpture on the outside of the New York State capitol building in Albany.

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.

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 The Chalmers building on Amsterdam’s South Side

By Bob Cudmore

   David W. Chalmers and his partners were the last industrialists to start a major knitting mill in Amsterdam.  Chalmers. John Blood, John Barnes and Howard Hanson created Chalmers Knitting Company in 1901 in a factory building on Washington Street north of the Mohawk River.  

   Long underwear was a staple in those days.  An Amsterdam knitting expert named Martin J, Shaughnessey had discovered a way to knit fabric and leave tiny holes to allow air to reach the body of the wearer.  Shaughnessy went to work for Chalmers and they called the breathable fabric Porosknit.  

   Chalmers advertised in a spectacular way for a decade with a large lighted sign above New York’s Times Square, touting the superiority of Porosknit and its other products. 

   In 1912 Chalmers and his partners moved their knitting operations to a four story brick factory building they constructed on the shore of the south side of the Mohawk River in Amsterdam. 

   Turner Construction of Amsterdam built a seven-story concrete addition to the Chalmers factory in 1916.  Turner also built a mansion on Guy Park Avenue for David Chalmers and his wife Emsie.  A friend of Thomas Edison, Chalmers had electric lamps at his home and a third floor ballroom.

   Many of the knitting mill’s employees were Italian-Americans who walked to work from their South Side homes.

   “How many times we used to come home from work (in the Depression) and cry because it was a bad day,” said Elizabeth Sardonia in an interview with Gazette reporter Ed Munger.  “But you went to work the next day just the same, and punched that clock.”

    Chalmers sold the knitting mill in 1945 to Lester Martin of New York City who continued to manufacture underwear under the Chalmers name.  In 1946, Martin company controller Joel Kaplan began making trips to Amsterdam from his native New York City to inventory the Chalmers operation. 

   David Chalmers died in 1950 at his Guy Park Avenue home.  In 1955, Kaplan moved to Amsterdam to oversee the Chalmers plant, which at one time during Martin’s ownership employed 650 people.  Martin died in 1959 and the Chalmers knitting company closed that year.

   Textile operations continued at the former Chalmers building, purchased by Edward Stern in 1962.  Stern had a knitting operation on the fourth floor. 

   Kaplan headed a new company named Montco that occupied the third floor, manufacturing women’s sportswear.  Montco had four factory outlets in the region and a second factory in Johnstown.

   Stern closed his Amsterdam operation in 1978 and Montco closed in 1980 as textile manufacturing moved overseas. 

   Kaplan told the Gazette that Montco production supervisor Beatrice Fredericks and 30 0ther women started their own company in the Chalmers building in 1980.  They produced clothing there until about 1985. 

   Kaplan continued living in Amsterdam where he was active in numerous charities.  He died in 2015.

   In the early years of the new century, Long Island developer Uri Kaufman proposed creation of a luxury apartment complex using the Chalmers building.  Kaufman has created apartment complexes from former mill buildings in Cohoes.  

   The Chalmers building was placed on the National Historic Register in 2010.  But there was considerable opposition to Kaufman’s plan on the city’s Common Council. 

   The Gazette reported, “That plan fell apart amid the housing market collapse, trouble with the title to the property and a general desire by many to have the eyesore gone and the site available for redevelopment.”

   The Chalmers building was torn down over several months, starting in 2011 and finishing in 2012.  The site is adjacent to the entrance to Amsterdam’s pedestrian bridge, the Mohawk Valley Gateway Overlook. 

Off the Digital press tomorrow

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.

Saturday, September 10, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast-From the Archives, July 5, 2017-Episode 155, March 17, 2017-Christina Baker Kline discusses her historical novel “A Piece of the World.”  The book deals with artist Andrew Wyeth and Christina Olson, pictured in his provocative 1948 painting, “Christina’s World.” 

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Summer stories from the Mohawk Valley

The man told me he had gone to the 1965 Dave Clark Five movie at the Mohawk Theatre sponsored by WAFS radio in Amsterdam.  Only a handful of people joined him. 

Saratoga National Historical Park special events in September!

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Saturday, September 10, 2022 Family Day and Raptors10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Family-friendly crafts, historic toys and games, and tin smith demonstrations 1:00 pm: Silent Wings raptor program presented by the Wildlife Institute of Eastern New York. 

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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

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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.

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