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Saturday, August 27, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- November 6, 2020-Episode 343-Retired Colonel Dave Cummings discusses efforts to research St. Joseph’s Shrine and its nearby burial ground in the Adirondack hill town of Bleecker. Constructed in the 1850s, St. Joseph’s Church, torn down in 1919, was the first Roman Catholic Church built in Fulton County.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022-Focus on History-An eye for a good story-Amsterdam High alumnus Richard Ellers

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Amsterdam and its railroads

By Bob Cudmore

          It was in 1836 that the first train of the Schenectady & Utica Railroad arrived in Amsterdam, according to historian Hugh Donlon.

          For three decades after that, there was no Amsterdam train station.  Passengers waited for trains at the Railroad Hotel at the end of Railroad Street, just west of where Route 30 crosses East Main Street in Amsterdam today.

          A train station for passengers and freight was built there on the north side of the tracks in 1867, a year before the New York Central Railroad was formed.  Carpet maker Stephen Sanford contributed an ornate fountain that beautified the site for some 30 years.  The fountain was later moved to St. Mary’s Church but removed in the 1940s.

          In 1898, a more substantial passenger train depot was built on the south side of the railroad tracks for $60,000.  Vehicle access was provided by a ramp built between an overhead railroad crossing and the Mohawk River bridge that at the time connected the north and south sides of the city.  That station was demolished in 1970 as part of urban renewal and the current Amtrak station built in the West End of Amsterdam.

          During the peak of rail travel, 27 trains a day stopped in Amsterdam.  Soldiers left for two World Wars from the station.  Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees arrived there in 1942 to play their farm team, the Amsterdam Rugmakers.

          Pedestrians could reach the train station through a tunnel under the tracks at the foot of Railroad Street.

          That leaky and often foul-smelling tunnel became an icon itself in the 1950s.  I remember rushing through the underground passageway with my mother on nights when we expected my sister to arrive for home visits from college in Potsdam.  The tunnel was like an Amsterdam version of the catacombs. 

Fascinated by trains, I was in awe of the old station that usually was not very crowded.  In winter, its radiators hissed in the middle of the floor.

WEST SHORE

          Starting in 1883, there was competition to the New York Central from the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad.  The West Shore was so named for the side of the Hudson River on which it operated.  In the Mohawk Valley, the West Shore tracks were on the south side of the Mohawk River.  The West Shore had its own passenger depot on Amsterdam’s South Side near Bridge Street, although its passenger traffic was never as brisk as that of the New York Central.  The West Shore did transport thousands of pilgrims to the Auriesville Shrine west of Amsterdam in the summer months.  The West Shore’s Amsterdam passenger depot was torn down in 1936.

RAIL FREIGHT

          A few years after the New York Central built its Amsterdam passenger station in 1898, the railroad spent $1 million to expand the freight house at the foot of Hamilton Street, according to historian Donlon.  Railway Express freight service was offered just east of the passenger station.

          Amsterdam also boasts its own railroad short line, the Amsterdam, Chuctanunda & Northern, begun in 1879.  This rail spur about a mile east of the city limits is still in operation today, according to the Amsterdam Industrial Development Agency.  A good part of the line has been abandoned but the remaining section is used to take freight to the Edson Street Industrial Park.

          Donlon said the little railroad did a lot to save wear and tear on Amsterdam streets.  At its peak in 1910, the rail line could take freight cars to the former Mohasco Carpet upper mill complex, Bigelow Sanford’s carpet mill and the Kelloggs & Miller linseed oil plant on Church Street.

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Ukraine and Jeff Buckley

Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy.

Things look good from up here, but it my be Bleecker than we think...

Saturday, August 27, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- November 6, 2020-Episode 343-Retired Colonel Dave Cummings discusses efforts to research St. Joseph’s Shrine and its nearby burial ground in the Adirondack hill town of Bleecker. Constructed in the 1850s, St. Joseph’s Church, torn down in 1919, was the first Roman Catholic Church built in Fulton County.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022-Focus on History-An eye for a good story-Amsterdam High alumnus Richard Ellers

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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. 

Episode 121, July 22, 2016- Jack Kelly discusses topics as diverse as the origin of the Mormon religion and how Americans learned how to make cement in his book “Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal”

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Tomorrow, Thursday Amsterdam and its railroads

During the peak of rail travel, 27 trains a day stopped in Amsterdam.  Soldiers left for two World Wars from the station.  Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees arrived there in 1942 to play their farm team, the Amsterdam Rugmakers.

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August 26, 2022-Episode 437-Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy.

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Saturday, August 27, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- November 6, 2020-Episode 343-Retired Colonel Dave Cummings discusses efforts to research St. Joseph’s Shrine and its nearby burial ground in the Adirondack hill town of Bleecker.  Constructed in the 1850s, St. Joseph’s Church, torn down in 1919, was the first Roman Catholic Church built in Fulton County.

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Kirk Douglas and Mario Cuomo Kirk Douglas Day, June 1, 1985 Picture:Daily Gazette

Kirk Douglas and his Amsterdam

By Bob Cudmore

          Michael Chiara, chairman of the Amsterdam Industrial Development Agency, sees economic potential in celebrating the link between Amsterdam and native son Kirk Douglas, one of the most popular actors of the 20th century.  Chiara proposes a Kirk Douglas Museum for Amsterdam, much as Jamestown, New York, celebrates Lucille Ball.

Some in Amsterdam are not enthusiastic about Douglas, faulting his 1988 autobiography, “The Ragman’s Son,” for his account of a sexual liaison with a local teacher and the actor’s views on anti-Semitism in the Rug City.

          But Chiara is not deterred.  A movie fan, Chiara unsuccessfully tried to convince city officials years ago to name the downtown mall after the famous actor. 

          Kirk Douglas is 90 and has returned to his Jewish roots, celebrating a second Bar Mitzvah.  He almost died in a helicopter crash in 1991.  He had a stroke in 1996 that impaired his ability to speak. While his son Michael has succeeded in motion pictures, son Eric died of an overdose of drugs in 2004.

          Born in 1916 as Issur Danielovitch, Douglas spent his early years at the last house on the left on Amsterdam’s Eagle Street—the building is still occupied.  He was known locally as Isadore or Izzy Demsky.  His father, Herschel or Harry Demsky, was a local ragman.  His mother, Bryna, eventually separated from her strong-willed husband after bearing seven children, Kirk and six sisters.

          My grandfather Harry Cudmore, also an Eagle Street resident, was quoted in family stories as saying people sometimes had to leave the popular Shaughnessy’s Tavern at East Main at Eagle because, “Somebody said something about the Jews and Harry Demsky is cleaning out the place.”

          Kirk Douglas told a recent interviewer that there was pressure on him to become a rabbi.  He was a standout in speech at Amsterdam High School and was mentored by English teacher Louise Livingston.  Another lifelong friend was Sonya Seigal and Douglas installed a plaque in her memory at the Amsterdam Free Library.  A high school cheerleader, Douglas worked in men’s clothes at Lurie’s Department Store after high school.

          An Italian-American friend, Peter Riccio, convinced Douglas to try college and both went off to St. Lawrence University where Douglas starred on the wrestling team.  He also started acting and worked summers as a counselor at YMCA Camp Agaming in the Adirondacks while performing in plays at the nearby Tamarack Playhouse.  It was at Tamarack that he changed his name, keeping the “D” sound of Danielovitch and Demsky for his stage name.

          Douglas went to New York to study acting, served in the U.S. Navy and found work in Hollywood.

          His 1949 breakthrough movie was “Champion,” where he played a conflicted boxer.  The movie was the opening attraction of Amsterdam’s new Tryon Theatre that year.

          Numerous roles followed and in 1959 Douglas produced and starred in “Spartacus,” breaking the blacklist of left-leaning Hollywood figures by hiring Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay.  Douglas named his production company Bryna Productions to honor his mother.

          In 1985, Douglas returned to Amsterdam for a hero’s welcome on Kirk Douglas Day and a park in his honor was dedicated on Guy Park Avenue Extension by then Governor Mario Cuomo.

          Douglas had a reunion with Wilfred “Wolfie” Churchitt, an Amsterdam man who had saved Douglas from drowning when both were children.

          In Amsterdam in 1985, Douglas spoke of Eagle Street and his immigrant roots, saying the street was like a United Nations with its Crocettis, Naples, Allens, Cudmores and Demskis. 

          He said, “My mother, God rest her soul, used to sit on that porch sometimes and say to me, ‘Ah, America, such a wonderful land.’”

Wednesday

"The Erie Canal rubbed Aladdin's lamp. America awoke, catching for the first time the wondrous vision of its own dimensions and power." - Francis Kimball, American architect

Episode 121, July 22, 2016- Jack Kelly discusses topics as diverse as the origin of the Mormon religion and how Americans learned how to make cement in his book “Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal”

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Amsterdam and its railroads

In 1898, a more substantial passenger train depot was built on the south side of the railroad tracks for $60,000.  Vehicle access was provided by a ramp...

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August 26, 2022-Episode 437-Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy. 

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Kirk Douglas Day, June 1, 1985

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Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 23, 2022-Kirk Douglas and Amsterdam

Born in 1916 as Issur Danielovitch, Douglas spent his early years at the last house on the left on Amsterdam’s Eagle Street

Wednesday

Episode 121, July 22, 2016- Jack Kelly discusses topics as diverse as the origin of the Mormon religion and how Americans learned how to make cement in his book “Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal”

Thursday-Amsterdam and its railroads

It was in 1836 that the first train of the Schenectady & Utica Railroad arrived in Amsterdam, according to historian Hugh Donlon...

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August 26, 2022-Episode 437-Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy. 

A controversial mayor of Amsterdam By Bob Cudmore

   Reader Roman Laba asked for more details when I mentioned Theron Akin, a controversial politician, in a column on local people who served in Congress.

   Laba wrote, “Why was he so disliked that the name of the village of Akin was changed to Fort Johnson?  Why were his two terms as Mayor of Amsterdam controversial?”

   Akin was born in Johnstown in 1855.  His father Ethan was a prosperous farmer and attorney who lived near Amsterdam in Old Fort Johnson, which had been the home of British Indian agent Sir William Johnson.  In 1905, the Montgomery County Historical Society bought the Old Fort from the Akin family and continue to operate it as an historic site.

   The younger Akin was a farmer and dentist.  He led the campaign to incorporate the area around the fort as the village of Akin and became the first village president.

   Akin was elected to Congress in 1910, narrowly defeating Republican Cyrus Durey from Fulton County.

   Akin’s campaign slogan was “The Full Dinner Pail.”  His posters showed a dinner pail empty except for a lemon.  Akin served as a Progressive Republican in Congress from 1911 to 1913, telling the New York Times, “I got close to the people and told them the truth.” 

   In Washington, Akin berated a messenger who did not know who he was.  He called New York Senator Elihu Root “That refrigerated vulture of the dead.”

   While Akin was in Washington the people of the village voted to change the name of their municipality from Akin to Fort Johnson.

   Robert McKeever of Schenectady told the Washington Post, “Dr. Akin is a sort of town marshal in his village.  He is the owner of an automobile, but he doesn’t like scorching, and when the autoists went speeding too rapidly by his house he determined to stop ‘em. 

   “The doctor early one morning secured a stout rope and stretched it across the road.  He waited for the scorchers, and the first one, of course had to stop.  It was not long until there were a score of impatient automobilists lined up.”

   Akin served one term in Congress, losing a reelection bid in 1912.  Akin then set his sights on becoming mayor of Amsterdam, much to the chagrin of city leaders.  Listing a residence in the Barnes Hotel and running as both a Democrat and Republican, Akin was elected mayor in 1919.

   After taking office, Akin suspended a longtime opponent, Police Chief Fred Packwood.  Akin appointed new members to the city health board after the existing board threatened to stop garbage and ash collection to embarrass the mayor.

   Akin began an investigation of illegal gambling. He disguised himself as a hoodlum and was arrested to probe conditions in the city jail.

   Leon Hall ran for mayor in 1921 with the slogan “Hall Akin Out.”  Akin trounced Hall by over three thousand votes. 

   Akin had three children and was married four times to Carrie Bell, Mary Sanford, Jenny Shelp Roberts and Jane Bornt. 

   Mayor Akin and Bornt left Amsterdam for three days in his second term.  The Recorder learned they had traveled to Bennington, Vermont, where a Methodist pastor married the couple in the church parsonage. 

   Republican Carl Salmon was elected mayor in 1923 and served three terms of relative calm.  Akin delivered a farewell address in the manner of George Washington.  City employees gave him a watch and chain when he left office.  In 1927, Akin ran unsuccessfully for mayor.    

   When Akin died of a stroke in 1933 he was 78 and living with his daughter.  He was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Tribes Hill.

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A controversial mayor of Amsterdam

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History 

   Reader Roman Laba asked for more details when I mentioned Theron Akin, a controversial politician, in a column on local people who served in Congress.

   Laba wrote, “Why was he so disliked that the name of the village of Akin was changed to Fort Johnson?  Why were his two terms as Mayor of Amsterdam controversial?”

   Akin was born in Johnstown in 1855.  His father Ethan was a prosperous farmer and attorney who lived near Amsterdam in Old Fort Johnson, which had been the home of British Indian agent Sir William Johnson.  In 1905, the Montgomery County Historical Society bought the Old Fort from the Akin family and continue to operate it as an historic site.

   The younger Akin was a farmer and dentist.  He led the campaign to incorporate the area around the fort as the village of Akin and became the first village president.

   Akin was elected to Congress in 1910, narrowly defeating Republican Cyrus Durey from Fulton County.

   Akin’s campaign slogan was “The Full Dinner Pail.”  His posters showed a dinner pail empty except for a lemon.  Akin served as a Progressive Republican in Congress from 1911 to 1913, telling the New York Times, “I got close to the people and told them the truth.” 

Next Sunday, August 28, 2022 on Bob Cudmore dot com the Column on the Amsterdam High School grad who became a reporter... 

   In Washington, Akin berated a messenger who did not know who he was.  He called New York Senator Elihu Root “That refrigerated vulture of the dead.”

   While Akin was in Washington the people of the village voted to change the name of their municipality from Akin to Fort Johnson.

   Robert McKeever of Schenectady told the Washington Post, “Dr. Akin is a sort of town marshal in his village.  He is the owner of an automobile, but he doesn’t like scorching, and when the autoists went speeding too rapidly by his house he determined to stop ‘em. 

   “The doctor early one morning secured a stout rope and stretched it across the road.  He waited for the scorchers, and the first one, of course had to stop.  It was not long until there were a score of impatient automobilists lined up.”

   Akin served one term in Congress, losing a reelection bid in 1912.  Akin then set his sights on becoming mayor of Amsterdam, much to the chagrin of city leaders.  Listing a residence in the Barnes Hotel and running as both a Democrat and Republican, Akin was elected mayor in 1919.

   After taking office, Akin suspended a longtime opponent, Police Chief Fred Packwood.  Akin appointed new members to the city health board after the existing board threatened to stop garbage and ash collection to embarrass the mayor.

   Akin began an investigation of illegal gambling. He disguised himself as a hoodlum and was arrested to probe conditions in the city jail.

   Leon Hall ran for mayor in 1921 with the slogan “Hall Akin Out.”  Akin trounced Hall by over three thousand votes. 

   Akin had three children and was married four times to Carrie Bell, Mary Sanford, Jenny Shelp Roberts and Jane Bornt. 

   Mayor Akin and Bornt left Amsterdam for three days in his second term.  The Recorder learned they had traveled to Bennington, Vermont, where a Methodist pastor married the couple in the church parsonage. 

   Republican Carl Salmon was elected mayor in 1923 and served three terms of relative calm.  Akin delivered a farewell address in the manner of George Washington.  City employees gave him a watch and chain when he left office.  In 1927, Akin ran unsuccessfully for mayor.    

   When Akin died of a stroke in 1933 he was 78 and living with his daughter.  He was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Tribes Hill.

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Monday, August 22, 2022- The story behind the story podcast-Mayor Akin

Tuesday, August 23, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—Kirk Douglas and Amsterdam

Michael Chiara, chairman of the Amsterdam Industrial Development Agency, sees economic potential in celebrating the link between Amsterdam and native son Kirk Douglas, one of the most popular actors of the 20th century.  Chiara proposes a Kirk Douglas Museum for Amsterdam, much as Jamestown, New York, celebrates Lucille Ball.

Wednesday, August 24, 2022-From the Archives of The Historians Podcast- Episode 121, July 22, 2016- Jack Kelly discusses topics as diverse as the origin of the Mormon religion and how Americans learned how to make cement in his book “Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal”

Thursday, August 25, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—Amsterdam and its railroads

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August 26, 2022-Episode 437-Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy. 

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Focus on History from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder

Amsterdam’s controversial Mayor Theron Akin

Robert McKeever of Schenectady told the Washington Post, “Dr. Akin is a sort of town marshal in his village. 

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On May 9th of 1769, a bill was introduced in the Provincial Assembly to create a new county out of "the westernmost part" of Albany County.

At that time, Albany County comprised all of the Colonial Province of New York from Ulster and Dutchess Counties to Fort Stanwix (now Rome) and the Iroquois land to the west.

In a letter dated November 28, 1771, Guy Johnson suggested to his uncle (and father- in- law), Sir William Johnson, that the courthouse for the new county be located in Johnstown. Sir William concurred with this recommendation and offered to contribute "to the erection of the necessary Edifies."

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Episode 353-Retired State Supreme Court Justice Robert Best chronicles the history of Johnstown’s 1772 Fulton County Courthouse, the oldest courthouse still in use in New York State.  

Tomorrow, Thursday, August 18, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—Markers kept county jail prisoners from straying.

          “They were introduced to provide a person who was in jail for a civil action the ability to leave the jail to work, visit family or to carry on other business,” said Montgomery County Sheriff Michael J. Amato

Off the Northway

Friday, August 19, 2022- Episode 436-Stephen Williams is author of Off the Northway, a collection of newspaper columns written by Williams, who retired after 42-years at the Daily Gazette in Schenectady.  One of the principal topics is the history of the GlobalFoundries semiconductor facility in Malta, which employs three thousand people and plans a second plant at its Luther Forest location.

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