Still Time to Register (2023 Conference starts this Friday, June 9)
The Fort Plain Museum began operation in 1961 as the Fort Plain Restoration with an emphasis on rebuilding Revolutionary War Fort Plain.
The Revolutionary War Conference 250
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in The Mohawk Valley
Fort Palin Museum https://fortplainmuseum.org/viewevent.aspx?ID=1062
THE FORT PLAIN MUSEUM, IN THE HEART OF MOHAWK COUNTRY!
A 2nd Bus has been added!
Bob Cudmore will introduce the speakers at the auditorium of Fulton-Montgomery Community College in Johnstown. This Saturday and Sunday, June 10, 8 am-5 pm and June 11, 8 am to 1 pm at the Revolutionary War conference organized by the Fort Plain Museum.
Thanks to an extremely generous and anonymous $1000 donation, The Historians Podcast fund drive has now raised $2610 toward our $7000 goal for 2023.
Thank you very much. We still have a long way to go. Please help us provide more history programing on Fort Ticonderoga, Old Fort Johnson, songs of the American Revolution by Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle, the Wild West and much more. Please donate online at The Historians Podcast, organized by Bob Cudmore or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. Thank you again-every contribution is appreciated.
Tomorrow
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Violins and ginseng
Born in Broadalbin in 1861 to Henry and Lydia Lansing Kested, Arch Kested married Charlotte Craig in 1891. He became proficient in “hand wood turning,” according to his 1940 obituary.
Friday, June 9, 2023 – Episode 478 Scott Haefner of Old Fort Johnson historic site explains how this formerly fortified home of British Indian agent Sir William Johnson was preserved by a grass roots organization, the Montgomery County Historical Society.
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