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Bob Cudmore in print This Weekend
The Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Focus on History-Some of Pearl Harbor attack’s local effects
Go Fund Me
$1820 needed by Sunday, December 31, 2023 Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Down to 25 Days and counting. On-line Go Fund Me https://gofund.me/777777e9
Wednesday
T Martin Bennett, author of “Wounded Tiger”: The story of the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wounded Tiger is the true story of the pilot who led the Pearl Harbor Attack, whose life was changed by an American prisoner and by a girl he never met. Three incredibly different people have their paths cross in ways so remarkable as to almost be unbelievable if it weren't so well documented.
Thursday, December 7 2023-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-Amsterdam and Pearl Harbor
The movie “South of Tahiti” playing at the Strand Theatre on East Main Street in Amsterdam was interrupted Sunday afternoon December 7, 1941 when the news broke that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Radio coverage was piped into the theater and dazed patrons left the building.
Friday, December 8, 2023-Episode 502-Jack Kelly is author of God Save Benedict Arnold. Arnold committed treason. Yet he was more than a turncoat—Kelly argues Arnold’s achievements during the early years of the Revolutionary War defined him as the most successful soldier of the era.
Amsterdam rugs go down in history
By Bob Cudmore
Two articles found on a floor covering news Website, www.rugnews.com, tell stories about commemorative rugs with connections to Amsterdam.
One article describes how Costikyan, a rug and tapestry-cleaning firm founded in 1886, restored the Liberty Rug, woven in Amsterdam’s East End in 1916 by the Shuttleworth Brothers factory.
In 1920, Shuttleworth merged with McCleary, Wallin and Crouse to form Mohawk Carpets in Amsterdam. The company reorganized as Mohasco in 1955 when it merged with Alexander Smith carpets of Yonkers. Production and offices ultimately left Amsterdam for Georgia and elsewhere.
The Liberty Rug was one of 20 Axminster carpets woven in Amsterdam to mark the initial floodlighting ceremony at the Statue of Liberty in New York on December 2, 1916. The rug recently restored was presented to President Woodrow Wilson. It originally was installed in President Wilson’s bedroom at the White House. The restored rug is now on display at Woodrow Wilson House, the late President’s library in Washington, D.C.
According to www.rugnews.com, an image of the Statue of Liberty is in the center of the rug, surrounded by depictions of Niagara Falls, the Mayflower, Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Washington Monument, the Capitol, and Native American teepees. Also shown is aviatrix Ruth Law flying over the Statue of Liberty in a biplane during the floodlighting ceremony.
In a separate opinion piece, Lissa Wyman of www.rugnews.com weighs in on commemorative rugs made in the Mohasco days. Wyman reported she was presented a 1776 Rug during the 1976 bicentennial by the Alexander Smith division of Mohasco. Several thousand of these five by eight foot rugs were woven and presented to political leaders and other dignitaries. Wyman at the time was editor of the trade magazine, Floor Covering News.
Wyman wrote that even though she hung the rug for many years in her New York City apartment, she was no fan of the design, calling it “the ugliest piece of textiles it has ever been my misfortune to view.”
But Wyman told her readers that now that her own 1776 Rug has been misplaced, she would like to find an image of it.
The background of the rug was an unfurled American flag, Wyman wrote. Landing on the flag was a really eagle-eyed American Eagle, wings spread and clutching a mean-looking bunch of arrows. It had to be hung, of course. Walking on it risked being charged with Desecration of The Flag.
Thanks to reader and Amsterdam native Larry Baldine for finding these articles.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, December 6, 2023
29 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 5:58AM
Scattered snow showers, mainly between 8am and 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 33. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. West wind around 7 mph.
Thursday
A chance of snow showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. West wind around 6 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Light areas of snow showers continue much of the day
with temperatures remaining seasonably cool under cloudy skies. Late
breaks of sun give way to clearing tonight which will give us a
chilly night. Clouds return on Thursday with additional snow
showers, especially west of the Hudson River.
Mohawk Valley News from The Daily Gazette, The Recorder News, The Leader-Herald and Nippertown.
https://www.dailygazette.com/
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By Bob CudmoreBob Cudmore in print This Weekend
The Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Focus on History-Some of Pearl Harbor attack’s local effects
Go Fund Me
$1820 needed by Sunday, December 31, 2023 Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Down to 25 Days and counting. On-line Go Fund Me https://gofund.me/777777e9
Wednesday
T Martin Bennett, author of “Wounded Tiger”: The story of the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wounded Tiger is the true story of the pilot who led the Pearl Harbor Attack, whose life was changed by an American prisoner and by a girl he never met. Three incredibly different people have their paths cross in ways so remarkable as to almost be unbelievable if it weren't so well documented.
Thursday, December 7 2023-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-Amsterdam and Pearl Harbor
The movie “South of Tahiti” playing at the Strand Theatre on East Main Street in Amsterdam was interrupted Sunday afternoon December 7, 1941 when the news broke that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Radio coverage was piped into the theater and dazed patrons left the building.
Friday, December 8, 2023-Episode 502-Jack Kelly is author of God Save Benedict Arnold. Arnold committed treason. Yet he was more than a turncoat—Kelly argues Arnold’s achievements during the early years of the Revolutionary War defined him as the most successful soldier of the era.
Amsterdam rugs go down in history
By Bob Cudmore
Two articles found on a floor covering news Website, www.rugnews.com, tell stories about commemorative rugs with connections to Amsterdam.
One article describes how Costikyan, a rug and tapestry-cleaning firm founded in 1886, restored the Liberty Rug, woven in Amsterdam’s East End in 1916 by the Shuttleworth Brothers factory.
In 1920, Shuttleworth merged with McCleary, Wallin and Crouse to form Mohawk Carpets in Amsterdam. The company reorganized as Mohasco in 1955 when it merged with Alexander Smith carpets of Yonkers. Production and offices ultimately left Amsterdam for Georgia and elsewhere.
The Liberty Rug was one of 20 Axminster carpets woven in Amsterdam to mark the initial floodlighting ceremony at the Statue of Liberty in New York on December 2, 1916. The rug recently restored was presented to President Woodrow Wilson. It originally was installed in President Wilson’s bedroom at the White House. The restored rug is now on display at Woodrow Wilson House, the late President’s library in Washington, D.C.
According to www.rugnews.com, an image of the Statue of Liberty is in the center of the rug, surrounded by depictions of Niagara Falls, the Mayflower, Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Washington Monument, the Capitol, and Native American teepees. Also shown is aviatrix Ruth Law flying over the Statue of Liberty in a biplane during the floodlighting ceremony.
In a separate opinion piece, Lissa Wyman of www.rugnews.com weighs in on commemorative rugs made in the Mohasco days. Wyman reported she was presented a 1776 Rug during the 1976 bicentennial by the Alexander Smith division of Mohasco. Several thousand of these five by eight foot rugs were woven and presented to political leaders and other dignitaries. Wyman at the time was editor of the trade magazine, Floor Covering News.
Wyman wrote that even though she hung the rug for many years in her New York City apartment, she was no fan of the design, calling it “the ugliest piece of textiles it has ever been my misfortune to view.”
But Wyman told her readers that now that her own 1776 Rug has been misplaced, she would like to find an image of it.
The background of the rug was an unfurled American flag, Wyman wrote. Landing on the flag was a really eagle-eyed American Eagle, wings spread and clutching a mean-looking bunch of arrows. It had to be hung, of course. Walking on it risked being charged with Desecration of The Flag.
Thanks to reader and Amsterdam native Larry Baldine for finding these articles.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, December 6, 2023
29 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 5:58AM
Scattered snow showers, mainly between 8am and 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 33. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. West wind around 7 mph.
Thursday
A chance of snow showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. West wind around 6 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Light areas of snow showers continue much of the day
with temperatures remaining seasonably cool under cloudy skies. Late
breaks of sun give way to clearing tonight which will give us a
chilly night. Clouds return on Thursday with additional snow
showers, especially west of the Hudson River.
Mohawk Valley News from The Daily Gazette, The Recorder News, The Leader-Herald and Nippertown.
https://www.dailygazette.com/