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A new month on The Historians, were loaded for bear, but we don't shoot bear!

We will find a good picture of a bear and post it tomorrow.

Friday, February 3, 2023-Episode 460-When Mommy Was a Commie is a historical comic novel set in Schenectady in the 1950s, inspired by episodes from America’s spy war with Russia.  Author Jon Sorensen was a newspaper reporter for The Schenectady Gazette, Buffalo News and New York Daily News.    

Friday, February 10, 2022- Episode 461-Alan Maddaus is author of Wright Peak Elegy: A Story of Cold War, Nuclear Deterrence and Ultimate Sacrifice. The book tells the story of a U.S. B 47e jet bomber that crashed into Wright Peak in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in 1962. 

Friday, February 17, 2022- Episode 462-Author Mark Dawidziak investigates Edgar Allan Poe’s strange death in Baltimore, and chronicles Poe’s storm-tossed life in his book A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Friday, February 24, 2022-Episode 463-The first Highlights Edition in 2023 with excerpts from these podcasts: Bill Buell’s Schenectady stories from the 1920s, NY State Historian Devin Lander, Jerry Snyder on ghost tours and more in Amsterdam, Jon Sorensen’s book When Mommy Was a Commie and Alan Maddaus on a U.S. jet bomber that crashed in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in 1962  

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Thursday, February 2, 2023-Rocco Petrone, Amsterdam’s rocket man

Retired teacher Joe Inglese from the town of Florida has contributed more memories of Amsterdam’s rocket man, Rocco Petrone.

Amsterdam city historian Robert von Hasseln compiled biographical data on Petrone, launch director at Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida who was what the New York Times called a “driving force” in the Apollo moon program.

Friday, February 3, 2023-Episode 460-“When Mommy Was a Commie” is a novel set  in Schenectady in the early 1950s, inspired by real-life episodes from America’s spy war with Russia.  Author Jon Sorensen was a newspaper reporter covering government and politics for The Schenectady Gazette, Buffalo News and New York Daily News. 

Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, February 1, 2023

...WIND CHILL WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT
THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as
low as 30 to 45 below zero.
* WHERE...The Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys, Glens Falls Saratoga
region, Capital District and northern Taconics of eastern New
York and all of southern Vermont.
* WHEN...From late Thursday night through Saturday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause
frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest wind chills will be Friday
night into Saturday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Wednesday, February 1, 2023
 
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