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This Weekend on The Historians with Bob Cudmore

Saturday, April 16, 2022

From the Archives-April 26, 2019-Episode 263-Victoria Riskin, a psychologist and movie and TV producer, is author of “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” about her parents.   Fay Wray was in King Kong and many other movies.  Robert Riskin was a screenwriter.

Sunday Focus on History

Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-The wheels on the bus-public transit in Amsterdam

"The trolleys were operated by the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad (F.J.&G.)  The company also provided interurban electric trolley service to and from Johnstown, Gloversville, Fonda, Amsterdam and Schenectady."

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On the Historians production schedule:Episode 419-English classics professor Edmund Richardson is author of The King’s Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

Episode 420-Paul Craddock at UCL Medical School in London England is author of Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery. 

Episode 418 Bruce Dearstyne on SoundCloud

...encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State. 

Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, April 16, 2022

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DOT: No explosives found on Route 5 in Amsterdam, road reopening early

AMSTERDAM — Detours on a stretch of Route 5 in Amsterdam will conclude Saturday by 9 a.m. after a..

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Always there to serve:152-year-old Northville hadrware store passed on to new owners

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...first today, Bob Cudmore talks with Aisha Tator "Donate Life New York State"

Friday, April 29, 2022-Historians Episode 420-Paul Craddock at UCL Medical School in London England is author of Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

1905 map settles debate on park

Amsterdam resident recalls her father’s Orpheum Theater

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History

An early 20th century map of Amsterdam and some research by a local history fan both point to the conclusion that historian Hugh Donlon was right after all about the name of an Amsterdam park.

Donlon, author of “Annals of a Mill Town” in 1980, wrote that an East End park was known as Ross’ Flats.  That name didn’t ring true with several longtime residents who remembered calling the area Rossi’s Flats.  Convenient to a railroad siding and the New York Central main line, the flatland was a location where circuses pitched their tents and immigrants played sports.

Sam Vomero of Amsterdam has found a map of Amsterdam’s Fourth Ward from 1905 that shows a large parcel of undeveloped East End land adjacent to the railroad called the Ross Estate.  Checking city directories from 1903 and 1917, Vomero discovered that farmer George B. Ross and his wife Frances had their home at 362 East Main Street, adjacent to what became a stone quarry, the current site of the Cliffside Restaurant.  Perhaps the name Rossi’s Flats came to be because it is difficult to pronounce Ross’ Flats.

The 1905 map has other fascinating details.  Mohawk Carpet Mills did not exist.  It formed in 1920.  Mohawk’s predecessor firm, Shuttleworth Brothers Rug and Manufacturing Company, had a plant between the railroad and the Mohawk River.  Other businesses along the railroad included the Elk Pearl Button Company, Amsterdam Silk Mills, W.S. Shuler Spring Company, Kreisel Brothers Coal Yard and Yund, Kennedy and Yund Knitting Mill.    

Vrooman Avenue was called Vrooman Street.  The Fourth Ward School, built in 1894, was on Vrooman between East Main and the railroad.  The school burned in the 1940s.  At the intersection of Vrooman and East Main stood the East Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church, currently a St. Mary’s Hospital health facility.  Vrooman ended just north of East Main with a dotted line leading through an undeveloped area to the home of D. Mathias.

On Reid Hill, St. Stanislaus’ school was depicted behind the church and not directly on Cornell Street.  One familiar name on Reid Street was Albert. Zierak, grocery store proprietor and bonesetter whose descendants later founded Kiddo’s Tavern in that location.

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MORE THEATER MEMORIES

Amsterdam’s Margaret Reilly, who is 94, has provided information on a downtown theater that her father operated, the Orpheum.  Strictly a movie theater and not a vaudeville house, the Orpheum was on Market Street adjacent to the old Barnes Hotel.  Sometimes movie stars made personal appearances.  A Masonic lodge was over the theater, she said, and the Regent Theater was across Market Street. 

Reilly recalled that before World War I, admission at the Orpheum was ten cents for children and fifteen cents for adults.  During the war, the government levied an additional tax of a penny for children and two cents for grownups.  She said that the first talking picture, the 1927 “Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, played the Orpheum.  Her father sold the theater in 1928 to a man named Kronik and Reilly could not remember when the Orpheum closed. 

Reilly raised a family in Amsterdam and worked at Montgomery County Trust.  She is the widow of popular chemistry teacher Ed Reilly, known as Prof Reilly at Wilbur H. Lynch High School.  He died 14 years ago 

Margaret Reilly shared a memory about Jollyland amusement park, which today is Herbert Shuttleworth Park.  She recalled that in the old days at Jollyland, the walkways were paved with discarded buttons from Amsterdam’s button mills.

Tomorrow, Friday, April 15, 2022 Episode 418

Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State. The first New York State constitution was adopted April 20, 1777 during a momentous year for the state during the Revolutionary War.  Bruce Dearstyne was formerly on the staff of the Office of State History and the State Archives.  He has written books and articles on New York State history.

Saturday, April 16, 2022- From the Archives-April 26, 2019-Episode 263-Victoria Riskin, a psychologist and movie and TV producer, is author of “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” about her parents.   Fay Wray was in King Kong and many other movies.  Robert Riskin was a screenwriter.

Focus on History Story "Posted this Sunday"

April 17, 2022-Focus on History in the Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-The wheels on the bus-public transit in Amsterdam

Today, Thursday, April 14, 2022 in The Recorder

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CDTA buses rolling into Mongtomery County this fall

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Mohawk Valley Weather, Thursday, April 14, 2022

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Fort Johnson residents see benefits in early plans to dissolve village governmen

ASHLEY ONYON/THE RECORDER Fort Johnson residents pack Village Hall during an informational meeting...

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Gloversville DRI open house set for Glove Theatre

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022-From the Archives-Episode 153, March 3, 2017-Michael Barrett has an account of the eastern end of the Erie Canal in the 1880s which had numerous locks and a reputation for payoffs and rowdiness.  Barrett is executive director of the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway in Troy.

The Burden Iron Works was an iron works and industrial complex on the Hudson River and Wynantskill Creek in Troy, New York. It once housed the Burden Water Wheel, the most powerful vertical water wheel in history.

"Sam Vomero of Amsterdam has found a map of Amsterdam’s Fourth Ward from 1905 that shows a large parcel of undeveloped East End land adjacent to the railroad called the Ross Estate".

Thursday, April 14, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-What did they call the flat land in Amsterdam’s East End?

...celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State.

Friday, April 15, 2022 Episode 418

Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State. The first New York State constitution was adopted April 20, 1777 during a momentous year for the state during the Revolutionary War.  Bruce Dearstyne was formerly on the staff of the Office of State History and the State Archives.  He has written books and articles on New York State history.

Saturday, April 16, 2022- From the Archives-April 26, 2019-Episode 263-Victoria Riskin, a psychologist and movie and TV producer, is author of “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” about her parents.   Fay Wray was in King Kong and many other movies.  Robert Riskin was a screenwriter.

Focus on History Story "Posted this Sunday"

April 17, 2022-Focus on History in the Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-The wheels on the bus-public transit in Amsterdam

Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, April 13, 2022

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Communication boards on playgrounds at Amsterdam schools let kids of all abilities access fun

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Kearney Group completes property purchase for ‘Glove City Lofts’ in Gloversville

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 ...Both Mohawk and Bigelow-Sanford carpet mills in Amsterdam switched to making blankets and canvas during World War II, while their machine shops produced a variety of war-related products.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Mills at war

By Bob Cudmore

There is a determined but jaunty tone to a 1943 newsletter called The Mohawker, published by Mohawk Carpet mills for its employees and over 900 men and women from the mill who were scattered all over the world then in the armed forces.

“Silent Mike Domkowski has his over-age discharge,” began one of the items describing workers from Mohawk’s Wilton Department.  “His Sergeant told him he’d do more good for the Army in civilian life than being in it.  Mike said: ‘I ain’t mad.’”

Wilton was a type of carpet woven at Mohawk using a system of paper punch cards invented by an 18th century Frenchman, Joseph Jacquard.  Silent Mike was a Wilton weaver and legendary in the East End for being a man of few words.

A frequent hangout for Mike and my aunts—Vera Cudmore and Gladys Morrell—was the Ivy Leaf, a basement tavern at the corner of Forbes and Schuyler Streets operated by a woman named Smith.  Patrons nicknamed the Ivy Leaf the Kneepad Inn.  As it was located on one of Amsterdam’s steepest hills, the legend was that winter tipplers sometimes resorted to crawling out on their knees so they wouldn’t tumble down the hill when they hit the icy sidewalk. 

“Jimmy Hayden from the Wilton office is leaving for the Navy,” reported the 1943 Mohawker.  “We are all wishing Jimmy well, as he would go out of his way to keep our looms running.”

“Helen Burke, one of our sparehands, joined the WACCS.  You boys never met her but she tied a mean knot before she left.”  Sparehands and creelers tied hundreds of strong yet small “weaver’s knots” to keep the looms running.

“I’m glad to hear that the Mill is well on its way producing blankets and tarpaulins,” wrote U.S. Navy recruit Bruno Petruccione.

Both Mohawk and Bigelow-Sanford carpet mills in Amsterdam switched to making blankets and canvas during World War II, while their machine shops produced a variety of war-related products.

The lead story in the May 1943 newsletter reported that the War Department had presented the Army-Navy Production Award—the “E” pennant for excellence--to Mohawk Carpet Mills.  Mohawk was the first carpet mill to deliver canvas to the war effort.  Canvas was used for tents and to cover guns and other equipment.

“Canvas is sure a war commodity,” wrote Louis McLaughlin from the USS Jamestown.  “You would be surprised to see how much is used, even on the smaller ships.  And of course, blankets are a necessity everywhere.”

Charles and Margaret Personeus of Hagaman provided the copy of The Mohawker.  Charles Stephen Personeus was a combat infantryman in Burma in World War II, where mules were used to carry supplies.  After the war, like his father Charles Hutchinson Personeus, he worked at Mohawk.  When the mill closed he worked at General Electric. 

LINCOLN EXHIBIT

An exhibit on the life of Abraham Lincoln is on display at the Riverfront Center in Amsterdam, a cooperative effort between the Walter Elwood Museum and WCSS AM 1490 radio.  The exhibit can be seen whenever Riverfront Center is open through February 5.   

Historian Hugh Donlon wrote in “Annals of a Mill Town” that support for the Civil War effort was not unanimous in the Mohawk Valley.  Lincoln carried the town of Amsterdam and Montgomery County in 1860.  Lincoln trailed General George McClellan by 391 votes in the county in the 1864 election, although Lincoln did carry the town of Amsterdam by 131 votes that year.

According to a Lincoln history web site, the Great Emancipator’s funeral train passed through the Mohawk Valley and stopped in Amsterdam at 5:25 p.m. on April 26, 1865.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 13, 2022-From the Archives-Episode 153, March 3, 2017-Michael Barrett has an account of the eastern end of the Erie Canal in the 1880s which had numerous locks and a reputation for payoffs and rowdiness.  Barrett is executive director of the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway in Troy.

"Sam Vomero of Amsterdam has found a map of Amsterdam’s Fourth Ward from 1905 that shows a large parcel of undeveloped East End land adjacent to the railroad called the Ross Estate".

Thursday, April 14, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-What did they call the flat land in Amsterdam’s East End?

...celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State.

Friday, April 15, 2022 Episode 418

Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State. The first New York State constitution was adopted April 20, 1777 during a momentous year for the state during the Revolutionary War.  Bruce Dearstyne was formerly on the staff of the Office of State History and the State Archives.  He has written books and articles on New York State history.

The Hudson River Valley Institute will host “The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution,” a virtual presentation by Dr. Kevin Weddle tomorrow, Wednesday, April 13, 2022

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Gloversville School Board adopts 2022-23 budget proposal

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Monday, April 11, 2022-The story behind the story podcast on John Philip Sousa’s friendship with a woman from St. Johnsville. Monday Podcast "7 Minutes"

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Friday, April 15, 2022 Episode 418

Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State.  The first New York State constitution was adopted April 20, 1777 during a momentous year for the state during the Revolutionary War.  Bruce Dearstyne was formerly on the staff of the Office of State History and the State Archives.  He has written books and articles on New York State history.

The March King’s St. Johnsville friend

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History 

   John Philip Sousa was no stranger to the Mohawk Valley.  His band performed concerts at Amsterdam’s old Opera House on Main Street and at the former Sacandaga Park in the Adirondacks.

   In 1926 Sousa’s band played at Smalley’s Theater in Fort Plain.  A longtime friend, Jessie Zoller, took Sousa to lunch at a St. Johnsville restaurant.

   Sousa was born in Washington D.C. in 1854.  His father was Portuguese and Spanish and his mother was Bavarian. 

   Jessie Zoller was born in 1856 in the hamlet of Hallsville in the town of Minden. She was the daughter of egg farmer Abram Zoller and his wife Alma.  The Zollers were prosperous.  After the Civil War the family moved to Washington where Abram Zoller held a high post in the U.S. Treasury.

   Jessie was gifted in art and music.  She met Sousa when they both were students at a music and art conservatory in Washington.

   The late St. Johnsville historian Anita Smith said Jessie’s father did not encourage the budding romance calling Sousa “a young upstart musician who would never amount to much.”

   Jessie earned a degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie and then enrolled in the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany.  Smith said Jessie was sent to Europe by her father to keep her away from Sousa.

   Jessie and her mother spent 14 years in Europe.  She was presented to the Emperor of Germany. Her father joined them for the last four years abroad. Jessie became fluent in German, Italian and French. She was trained as an opera singer.

   When the Zollers returned to America they went to Chicago where Jessie continued her studies.  In Chicago she saw Sousa once again.

   Sousa married Jane van Middlesworth Bellis in 1879. Bellis was a singer from Philadelphia.  Jane and Sousa met when he was playing violin in a theater where she performed. They had three children. 

   In 1880 Sousa was named to head the U.S. Marine Band at the White House and his reputation soared.  He formed his own band in 1892.  He composed many marches.

   A letter from Sousa to Jessie in 1899 said, “Anytime I can be of service to you, please command me.”

   Jessie’s mother died in 1902.  Jessie and her father moved back to the Mohawk Valley, settled on Kingsbury Avenue in St. Johnsville and later lived on Ann Street.

   Abram Zoller died in 1906. His obituary noted Jessie “watched with devoted care” over her father’s “declining years.”  

   When Sousa passed through St. Johnsville by train, he sometimes visited Jessie, once getting the train to make an unscheduled stop. Village residents said the “March King” looked dapper in his dress clothes replete with medals and white gloves.

   Cultured and talented, Jessie had become the foremost authority in St. Johnsville on language, music and art.  Jessie was a teacher until 1928 and then lived a more reclusive life.  She never married   

   Sousa and his family lived his later years in Sands Point, Long Island.  He kept on touring with his marching band. 

   He died in 1932 at age 77 in a hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania after conducting a band rehearsal the previous day.  He was buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington.

   A member of the Christian Science church, Jessie, 82, died in 1938 at the home of her cousin, Irving Devendorf, and was buried at Fort Plain Cemetery.  Jessie’s obituary said she was one of Sousa’s closest friends.

    Jessie’s version of a detail from a Raphael painting, called “The Two Cherubs,” has been displayed at St. Johnsville Community House.  Local lore has it that Jessie said the two cherubs represented her and Sousa.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 12, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Mills at war.

There is a determined but jaunty tone to a 1943 newsletter called The Mohawker, published by Mohawk Carpet mills for its employees and over 900 men and women from the mill who were scattered all over the world then in the armed forces.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022-From the Archives-Episode 153, March 3, 2017-Michael Barrett has an account of the eastern end of the Erie Canal in the 1880s which had numerous locks and a reputation for payoffs and rowdiness.  Barrett is executive director of the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway in Troy.

Thursday, April 14, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-What did they call the flat land in Amsterdam’s East End?

An early 20th century map of Amsterdam and some research by a local history fan both point to the conclusion that historian Hugh Donlon was right after all about the name of an Amsterdam park.

Mohawk Valley Weather, Monday, April 11, 2022

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Stop work order issued for new plaza on Route 30 in Amsterdam

TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — A stop work order has been issued for construction of the Veeders Mill...

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A Family Affair:Annual Gloversville Easter Egg Hunt

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 From the Archive-Episode 311-Kathryn Smith is a journalist from South Carolina, author of “Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy.”

American Revolution Conference in the Mohawk Valley June 9-12, 2022

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

A letter from Sousa to Jessie in 1899 said, “Anytime I can be of service to you, please command me.”

The March King’s St. Johnsville friend

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History 

   John Philip Sousa was no stranger to the Mohawk Valley.  His band performed concerts at Amsterdam’s old Opera House on Main Street and at the former Sacandaga Park in the Adirondacks.

   In 1926 Sousa’s band played at Smalley’s Theater in Fort Plain.  A longtime friend, Jessie Zoller, took Sousa to lunch at a St. Johnsville restaurant.

   Sousa was born in Washington D.C. in 1854.  His father was Portuguese and Spanish and his mother was Bavarian. 

   Jessie Zoller was born in 1856 in the hamlet of Hallsville in the town of Minden. She was the daughter of egg farmer Abram Zoller and his wife Alma.  The Zollers were prosperous.  After the Civil War the family moved to Washington where Abram Zoller held a high post in the U.S. Treasury.

   Jessie was gifted in art and music.  She met Sousa when they both were students at a music and art conservatory in Washington.

   The late St. Johnsville historian Anita Smith said Jessie’s father did not encourage the budding romance calling Sousa “a young upstart musician who would never amount to much.”

   Jessie earned a degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie and then enrolled in the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany.  Smith said Jessie was sent to Europe by her father to keep her away from Sousa.

   Jessie and her mother spent 14 years in Europe.  She was presented to the Emperor of Germany. Her father joined them for the last four years abroad. Jessie became fluent in German, Italian and French. She was trained as an opera singer.

Tomorrow, Monday, April 11, 2022-The story behind the story podcast on John Philip Sousa’s friendship with a woman from St. Johnsville. Monday Podcast "7 Minutes"

   When the Zollers returned to America they went to Chicago where Jessie continued her studies.  In Chicago she saw Sousa once again.

   Sousa married Jane van Middlesworth Bellis in 1879. Bellis was a singer from Philadelphia.  Jane and Sousa met when he was playing violin in a theater where she performed. They had three children. 

   In 1880 Sousa was named to head the U.S. Marine Band at the White House and his reputation soared.  He formed his own band in 1892.  He composed many marches.

   A letter from Sousa to Jessie in 1899 said, “Anytime I can be of service to you, please command me.”

   Jessie’s mother died in 1902.  Jessie and her father moved back to the Mohawk Valley, settled on Kingsbury Avenue in St. Johnsville and later lived on Ann Street.

   Abram Zoller died in 1906. His obituary noted Jessie “watched with devoted care” over her father’s “declining years.”  

   When Sousa passed through St. Johnsville by train, he sometimes visited Jessie, once getting the train to make an unscheduled stop. Village residents said the “March King” looked dapper in his dress clothes replete with medals and white gloves.

   Cultured and talented, Jessie had become the foremost authority in St. Johnsville on language, music and art.  Jessie was a teacher until 1928 and then lived a more reclusive life.  She never married   

   Sousa and his family lived his later years in Sands Point, Long Island.  He kept on touring with his marching band. 

   He died in 1932 at age 77 in a hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania after conducting a band rehearsal the previous day.  He was buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington.

   A member of the Christian Science church, Jessie, 82, died in 1938 at the home of her cousin, Irving Devendorf, and was buried at Fort Plain Cemetery.  Jessie’s obituary said she was one of Sousa’s closest friends.

    Jessie’s version of a detail from a Raphael painting, called “The Two Cherubs,” has been displayed at St. Johnsville Community House.  Local lore has it that Jessie said the two cherubs represented her and Sousa.

Historians Go Fund Me 2022...now totals $2100.  That’s a third of our $6,000 goal!  Please donate online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. On the production schedule we’re working on Episode 418-Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State and Episode 421 on the story of a 1955 African American Little League baseball team. 

Tuesday, April 12, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Mills at war.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022-From the Archives-Episode 153, March 3, 2017-Michael Barrett has an account of the eastern end of the Erie Canal in the 1880s which had numerous locks and a reputation for payoffs and rowdiness.  Barrett is executive director of the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway in Troy.

Thursday, April 14, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-What did they call the flat land in Amsterdam’s East End?

Friday, April 15, 2022 Episode 418-Bruce Dearstyne is encouraging New Yorkers to celebrate April 20 as the birthday of the Empire State.  The first New York State constitution was adopted April 20, 1777 during a momentous year for the state during the Revolutionary War.  Bruce Dearstyne was formerly on the staff of the Office of State History and the State Archives.  He has written books and articles on New York State history.

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Saturday, April 9, 2022 Episode 417-Bryan Jackson is author of Why the Titanic Was Doomed.  Titanic, the most magnificent ocean liner of her time, was destined for disaster before she left the docks at Southampton according to Jackson--doomed by her owner, designers and the men who sailed her.

The March King’s St. Johnsville friend

By Bob Cudmore will be told of first thing tomorrow, Sunday, April 10, 2022

..in The Gazette, Amsterdam Recorder and on-line

...in 1926 Sousa’s band played at Smalley’s Theater in Fort Plain. 

Thanks to a very generous donation from Dave Northrup, the Historians Podcast 2022 fund drive now totals $2100.  That’s a third of our $6,000 goal!  Please donate online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Keep history alive at The Historians Podcast-where we’re working on Episode 421 on the story of a 1955 African American Little League baseball team. 

Part two of the Weekend, Sunday, April 10, 2022

From the Archive-March 27, 2020-Episode 311-Kathryn Smith is a journalist from South Carolina, author of “Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy.”

This Monday evening at 7 EST

Fort Plain Museum Free Zoom Event

April 11, 2022 

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Behind the Scenes - Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed

Selections from the provocative new documentary will be shown. James Kirby Martin, executive producer of the film and author of the book upon which it is based will present the historical context and Tom Mercer producer and script writer will talk about the making of this ground breaking cinematic documentary. Narrated by Martin Sheen

Amsterdam and Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, April 9, 2022

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Amsterdam foreclosure auction nets $1.1 million

AMSTERDAM — The sale of 27 properties for a combined $1.1 million through Amsterdam’s foreclosure...

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Caroga Arts Collective gets $1M state grant toward amphitheater at Sherman’s Amusement Park

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 Saturday, April 9, 2022 Episode 417-Bryan Jackson is author of Why the Titanic Was Doomed.  Titanic, the most magnificent ocean liner of her time, was destined for disaster before she left the docks at Southampton according to Jackson--doomed by her owner, designers and the men who sailed her.

The March King’s St. Johnsville friend

By Bob Cudmore will be told of first thing tomorrow, Sunday, April 10, 2022

...in 1926 Sousa’s band played at Smalley’s Theater in Fort Plain. 

Thanks to a very generous donation from Dave Northrup, the Historians Podcast 2022 fund drive now totals $2100.  That’s a third of our $6,000 goal!  Please donate online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Keep history alive at The Historians Podcast-where we’re working on Episode 421 on the story of a 1955 African American Little League baseball team. 

Part two of the Weekend, Sunday, April 10, 2022

From the Archive-March 27, 2020-Episode 311-Kathryn Smith is a journalist from South Carolina, author of “Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy.”

This Monday evening at 7 EST

Fort Plain Museum Free Zoom Event

April 11, 2022 

https://fortplainmuseum.org/viewevent.aspx?ID=1075

Behind the Scenes - Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed

Selections from the provocative new documentary will be shown. James Kirby Martin, executive producer of the film and author of the book upon which it is based will present the historical context and Tom Mercer producer and script writer will talk about the making of this ground breaking cinematic documentary. Narrated by Martin Sheen

Amsterdam and Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Saturday, April 9, 2022

https://dailygazette.com/

Amsterdam foreclosure auction nets $1.1 million

AMSTERDAM — The sale of 27 properties for a combined $1.1 million through Amsterdam’s foreclosure...

https://www.recordernews.com/

Leader Herald

Caroga Arts Collective gets $1M state grant toward amphitheater at Sherman’s Amusement Park

https://www.leaderherald.com/

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