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... for many years Grace volunteered at the Walter Elwood Museum teaching art classes and serving on the board. Thursday, October 21, 2021 Grace Gilbert lived an artist’s life By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History After Grace Cermola Gilbert of Amsterdam died at age 98 on January 15 this year, her wake featured what was called a final exhibit of her popular art work. Born on July 4, 1918, Grace’s parents were Maria Petruccione Cermola and Anthony Cermola. Her mother and father were from separate towns in Italy, Benevento for her mother and Amorosi for her father. They met in Amsterdam. Her father was a Bigelow-Sanford carpet weaver who also operated a neighborhood store. The Cermolas lived upstairs in a two family house on upper Brookside Avenue. Grace’s mother wanted her to study piano as everyone in the family was encouraged to play an instrument. But Grace preferred visual art even at a young age. As a child, she drew sketches of her cousins. After graduating from Amsterdam High School in 1936, she went to Syracuse University and majored in art education, finishing college in three years. In 1939 she and three other Amsterdam Italian-Americans who had graduated from college were honored at a banquet sponsored by the Italian Federated Societies. After college Grace taught drawing for several years in the Gilboa-Conesville Schools but then moved home to teach at Amsterdam High School. She was a public school art teacher for thirty-three years. While Grace was attending college, she had met a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate from Texas, Clinton Wayne Gilbert, who had been sent to school in Syracuse by the Navy. Grace and Clinton married at St. Michael’s Church in Amsterdam in March 1945. Historians Go Fund Me Needs Your Help https://www.gofundme.com/f/historians-podcast-2021 Clinton worked for General Motors in Schenectady after the war. They had two sons, Timothy and Thomas. Clinton was laid off by GM in 1959 then secured a post in Westchester County with the New York State Thruway Authority. The Gilberts relocated to Mamaroneck and Grace taught art in the Pelham schools until her retirement in 1977. Her husband retired the next year and they moved back to Amsterdam. Clinton, who died in 1985, loved the Amsterdam Municipal Golf Course. “I still love Amsterdam,” Grace said in a 2011 interview. For many years Grace volunteered at the Walter Elwood Museum teaching art classes and serving on the board. She also taught private art classes at the former St. Stanislaus School on Cornell Street. She said every doctor’s wife in the area took her class, “The community needs art.” Tomorrow, Friday, October 22, 2021-Episode 393-David Brooks of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter, N.Y., explains how Erie Canal boats were able to cross the fast-flowing Schoharie Creek.
Saturday, October 23, 2021-Focus on History in the Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder-Amsterdam rejoiced at war’s end. Mohawk Valley Weather, Thursday, October 21, 2021 Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
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Everybody in Schenectady thinks they know Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light in his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
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Daily Gazette Amsterdam filmmaker’s ‘The Last Frankenstein’ to have first screening at Proctors Amsterdam Recorder
Amsterdam looking to improve wasterwater processing AMSTERDAM — The Common Council signed off on a $36,000 contract with an engineering firm on... October 15, 2021 Dana Cudmore is the author of Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure and Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country. Cudmore focuses on caves of Schoharie and Albany counties, including the Howe Caverns tourist attraction. Download MP3October 08, 2021 Episode 391-Tessa Bridal, a native of Uruguay, tells the stories of people who disappeared during South American political turmoil in the 1970s in her book The Dark Side of Memory. Download MP3October 01, 2021 Friday, October 1, 2021- Episode 390-A highlights edition with five podcast excerpts-Spiritualism in Lilydale; the Freethought Trail; race relations in Utica, NY; Pennsylvania industrialist Sarah Cochran; the Fourth of July 200 years ago in Johnstown, NY. Download MP3September 24, 2021 Friday, September 24, 2021-Episode 389-Bob Cudmore has stories from his Daily Gazette Focus on History columns including Amsterdam’s horse racing track, the life of a volunteer nurse in the Civil War and Amsterdam radio announcers who served in Armed Forces Radio. Download MP3September 17, 2021 Friday, September 17, 2021- Episode 388-Katie Turner Getty discusses the prison ships that England used to hold prisoners of war during the American Revolution. Turner Getty, a Boston lawyer and independent historian, spoke this summer on this topic at a conference sponsored by the Fort Plain NY Museum. She writes articles that appear in the Journal of the American Revolution. Download MP3September 10, 2021 Joyce Stah, on the history of RISE, WMHT's radio information service for the blind and print disabled in New York's Capital Region and Hudson Valley. RISE volunteers read articles from newspapers, periodicals and books to audiences who would otherwise be unable to access such information. RISE carries each episode of The Historians Podcast. Download MP3September 03, 2021
Jim Kaplan with the story of Richard Rescorla, security director of Morgan Stanley, who saved the lives of 2700 people at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 Download MP3August 27, 2021 Friday, August 27, 2021-Episode 385- Tom Flynn of the Center for Inquiry tells about Central New York’s Freethought Trail, including the Dresden, N.Y. birthplace of the 19th century’s best known agnostic speaker, Robert Green Ingersoll. More information on the Trail is here: https://freethought-trail.org The Center for Inquiry reported Tom Flynn’s death on August 23. He was 66. His interview for Historians Podcast took place July 7. Download MP3August 20, 2021 Friday, August 20, 2021-Episode 384- Leader Herald columnist Peter Betz has documented how Johnstown celebrated the Fourth of July 200 years ago with cannon shots, a parade and celebration at a local hotel. Revolutionary War veterans were still alive for these festivities. Betz also has details on Johnstown native Enos Throop who served as governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. Download MP3August 13, 2021 Episode 383- Kimberly Hess discusses “A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah Cochran.” Cochran lived in Pennsylvania and headed companies that processed coal and coke. A distant ancestor of Hess, Cochran advocated for women’s suffrage and was a philanthropist. Download MP3August 06, 2021 Episode 382- Deirdre Sinnott is author of The Third Mrs. Galway, a historical novel on race relations in the 1830s focusing on Utica, New York. Download MP3July 30, 2021
Friday, July 30, 2021-Episode 381-Town historian Todd Langworthy has information on how Lily Dale in the Town of Pomfret in western New York became a center for spiritualism. Pomfret also was the place where the Women’s Christian Temperance Union began and where the first farmers’ Grange was founded. Download MP3July 23, 2021
The third Highlights Episode of The Historians Podcast in 2021 has excerpts from a dozen shows that were aired this year. Topics include the battle of Valcour, black separatist Marcus Garvey, Lady Bird Johnson, women’s suffrage, time travel, the history of deceit and more. Download MP3July 16, 2021 Friday, July 16, 2021-Episode 379-An update on a previous program on the origins of the New York State Thruway from Tim Tielman of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo History, Architecture and Culture. Download MP3July 09, 2021 Friday, July 9, 2021-Episode 378-Ann Maria Bullock Schram of Amsterdam, was a volunteer nurse in the American Civil War. Montgomery County NY historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar discusses her research on Schram’s life. Download MP3July 02, 2021 Episode 377-Aja Raden is author of The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit, a history of con artistry and deception. Download MP3June 25, 2021 Episode 376-New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan considers the impact of black separatist leader Marcus Garvey on African independence. Download MP3June 18, 2021 Friday, June 18, 2021-Episode 375- Mark Sullivan discusses his historical novel, The Last Green Valley that chronicles how members of a German family living in Ukraine were able to escape clashing armies in World War II and find a new life in America. Download MP3June 11, 2021 Episode Episode 374-Linda Wisniewski is author of Where the Stork Flies, a time travel novel about a Pennsylvania librarian whose search for her best life pushes away her family until her 19th century ancestor and the medieval Polish Queen Jadwiga teach her the meaning of unconditional love. There are several scenes in Linda’s home town of Amsterdam, New York, as well as scenes in Poland in 1825. Download MP3June 04, 2021 Episode 373-Marguerite Kearns is author of Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights. Download MP3May 28, 2021 Episode 372-Julia Sweig is author of “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight” that draws on recorded diaries kept by Lady Bird when her husband Lyndon was President from 1963 through 1968. Download MP3May 21, 2021 Friday, May 21, 2021-Episode 371-Bevis Longstreth is author of Chains Across the River, a historical novel dealing with the great chains that American forces stretched across the Hudson River during the American Revolution to prevent the British fleet from sailing from New York City to Albany. Download MP3May 14, 2021 Friday, May 14, 2021-Episode 370-Hudson Valley historian A.J. Schenkman has stories from his book “Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York”--including a plot to kidnap General George Washington. Download MP3May 07, 2021 Friday, May 7, 2021-Episode 369-Jack Kelly is author of “Valcour: The 1776 Campaign (on Lake Champlain) That Saved the Cause of Liberty.” Download MP3April 30, 2021 Friday, April 30, 2021-Episode 368-The trials of Burr and Trump. Does the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump recall Aaron Burr’s acquittal in an 1807 treason trial? New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan tells the life Revolutionary War hero and Vice President Aaron Burr, a controversial figure in American history, remembered for killing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Download MP3April 23, 2021 Friday, April 23, 2021-Episode 367-Our second Highlights Podcast of 2021 features Jim Richmond on Saratoga County history, Mike Hauser on Fulton County sports, Sarah Patten on women spies, Thruway questions from Robert Burns, John Warren on motorization of the Adirondack Park, Jim Kaplan on New York City’s South Street Seaport and Roland Vinyard on West Virginia caver Pete Hauer. Download MP3April 16, 2021 Harold Schechter author of “Maniac: the Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer.” Download MP3April 09, 2021 Friday, April 9, 2021-Episode 365-Roland Vinyard tells the story of his book, “The Ballad of Pete Hauer: It Was Caves that Pete Loved The Best.” A true story of two mysterious deaths in West Virginia’s cave country. Speleobooks https://tinyurl.com/PeterHauer Youtube The Ballad of Pete Hauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGA_icGpqI Download MP3 April 02, 2021 Friday, April 2, 2021-Episode 364-Jim Kaplan reports on the history of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport and a proposal to build a new high rise in that area. Download MP3March 26, 2021 Friday, March 26, 2021-Episode 363-How the Adirondack forest preserve was motorized. The guest is John Warren, founder and editor of New York Almanack. Download MP3March 19, 2021 Friday, March 19, 2021-Episode 362-New York State Thruway commuter and Historians Podcast listener Robert Burns makes frequent trips between Rochester and Albany. He has questions on the history of the Thruway, built in the 1950s. We welcome your answers to his questions via email. We get background on Thruway history from Bruce Dearstyne, author of the book “Spirit of New York.” Download MP3March 12, 2021 Friday, March 12, 2021-Episode 361-Sarah Patten, author of “The Measure of Gold,” a historical novel set in Europe in World War II with a focus on French Resistance women spies. Download MP3March 05, 2021 Friday, March 5, 2021-Episode 360-Mike Hauser, author and Leader Herald columnist, has stories about Jack McKeon, Parkhurst Field and Moonlight “Doc” Graham from Fulton County baseball history. Download MP3February 26, 2021 Friday, February 26, 2021-Episode 359-Keeping history alive during the pandemic with Jim Richmond from Saratoga County History Roundtable, plus the impact of Spencer and Katrina Trask on Saratoga Springs. Download MP3February 19, 2021 Friday, February 19, 2021-Episode 358-In our first Highlights Special of the year hear excerpts from 2021 podcasts including David Pietrusza on growing up in Amsterdam, public radio pioneer Will Lewis, Justice Robert Best on the historic Fulton County Courthouse, Darren Tracy on historic preservation, Jim Kaplan on New York City’s Wasserstein family, Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League and Oneida County historian Joseph Bottini on Oriskany’s Trinkaus Manor restaurant. Download MP3February 12, 2021 Friday, February 12, 2021-Episode 357-Lawyer and historian Jim Kaplan looks at the lives of financier Bruce Wasserstein and his sister, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, key figures in the revival of New York City in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Download MP3February 05, 2021 Friday, February 5, 2021-Episode 356-Oneida County historian Joseph Bottini remembers Trinkaus Manor, a destination restaurant with an elaborate Christmas display in Oriskany, N.Y. Download MP3January 29, 2021 Friday, January 29, 2021- Episode 355-Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League recounts the story of the League’s popular “ghost tours” of Amsterdam’s Green Hill Cemetery. He also discusses the history of the Amsterdam Fire Department. Download MP3January 22, 2021 Friday, January 22. 2021-Episode 354-Professional engineer Darren Tracy discusses historic preservation and describes a project he undertook restoring a “tiny house” in Glens Falls, New York. Download MP3January 15, 2021 Friday, January 15, 2021-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. Meredith Best, an art teacher and the judge’s daughter, describes the artwork in a booklet on the courthouse history written by her father which is scheduled for publication in February. Download MP3January 08, 2021 Friday, January 8, 2021-Episode 352-Presidential historian David Pietrusza on his memoir “Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory, A Vanished World” about his Amsterdam, N.Y., roots. Download MP3 January 01, 2021 Friday, January 1, 2021-Episode 351-Pioneer public radio broadcaster Will Lewis, president emeritus of the Los Angeles Press Club, discusses his early days in the 1960s at WBUR-FM in Boston, passage of the public broadcasting bill in Washington and the Patty Hearst kidnapping in California. Download MP3December 25, 2020 Friday, December 25, 2020-Episode 350-James Schaefer, Rotterdam town historian, discusses his hometown, his neighborhood along Schermerhorn Road and the town’s role in a New York hiking trail. Download MP3December 18, 2020 Friday, December 18, 2020-Historians Podcast Episode 349-Author John Gearing and editor Chris Leonard discuss their book “Schenectady Genesis, Volume II: The Creation of an American City from an Anglo-Dutch Town, ca. 1760-1800.” Download MP3December 11, 2020 Friday, December 11, 2020-Episode 348-Chris Carola, a veteran Associated Press reporter, is writing a book about Jack Wilpers, who grew up in Saratoga Springs, and the key role Wilpers played in the capture of former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo in 1945. Download MP3December 04, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020-Episode 347-Professor Robert May is author of “Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas and Southern Memory.” Download MP3November 27, 2020 Friday, November 27, 2020-Episode 346-Christopher Philippo is editor of “The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume Four.” Stories include The Green Huntsman and The Christmas Ghost. Download MP3November 20, 2020 Friday, November 20, 2020-Episode 345-Jim Kaplan chronicles the achievements of the first woman member of a Presidential cabinet. Frances Perkins was FDR’s Secretary of Labor who designed Social Security. Download MP3November 13, 2020 Friday, November 13, 2020-Episode 344-Ashley Hopkins-Benton recounts the life of sculptor Henry DiSpirito, who was artist in residence at Utica College. Hopkins-Benton is author of “Breathing Life Into Stone: The Sculpture of Henry DiSpirito.” Download MP3November 06, 2020 Friday, 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. Download MP3October 30, 2020 Friday, October 30, 2020-Episode 342-John J. Woodward tells us about the bicentennial of Rotterdam, N.Y., a town in Schenectady County. Woodward chairs Rotterdam’s bicentennial committee and previously served 25 years as Schenectady County Clerk. Download MP3October 23, 2020 Friday, October 23, 2020-Episode 341-Rob Swigart is author of the historical novel “Mixed Harvest: Stories of the Human Past.” The book describes how a prehistoric nomadic population transitioned to more permanent settlements. Download MP3October 16, 2020 Friday, October 16, 2020-Episode 340-2020 Highlights Podcast #2: Buddy Levy on the triumphant and tragic Greely polar expedition, Richard Hamm on Prohibition’s greatest myths, Janny Venema on translating New Netherland Dutch, Dan Weaver on forgotten stories of the Mohawk Valley and a chat with space historian Margaret Weitekamp. Download MP3October 09, 2020 Friday, October 9, 2020-Episode 339-Jennet Conant discusses her book “The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer.” Also heard is film maker Nick Spark who lobbied for U.S. government recognition of medical doctor Stewart Alexander whose work chronicling the Bari disaster in southern Italy was the impetus to developing chemotherapy. Download MP3October 02, 2020 Friday, October 2, 2020-Episode 338- Jim Kaplan tells the story of African American real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton, who helped develop Harlem as a center of black culture. Download MP3September 25, 2020 Friday, September 25, 2020-Episode 337-Retired network executive George Schweitzer on the history of the CBS Eye icon and his career promoting CBS television. Schweitzer was recently profiled on CBS Sunday Morning. Download MP3September 18, 2020 Friday, September 18-Episode 336-Schenectady City Historian Christopher Leonard discusses Schenectady during World War II plus a look at Schenectady and the Erie Canal. Download MP3September 11, 2020 Friday, September 11, 2020-Episode 335-David Brooks of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter has Erie Canal lore to share. He also tells of unrealized plans to make a canal out of the Sacandaga River. Download MP3September 04, 2020 Friday, September 4, 2020-Episode 334-Highlights from 2020 episodes of Historians Podcast-Caryl Hopson on “Murder and Mayhem in Herkimer County,” Peter Ward discusses the history of personal cleanliness, Kathryn Smith details the life of heiress and spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Matthew Costello on George Washington’s changing reputation and Christie Sausa looks at Lake Placid’s winter sports history. Download MP3August 28, 2020 Friday, August 28, 2020-Episode 333-Vanderbilt University professor Thomas Schwartz is author of the book “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.” Friday Podcast "29 Minutes" Download MP3August 21, 2020 Episode 332-Colbert Nepaulsingh discusses his book “Walter Elwood: ‘Glitter’ and Other Unpublished Plays.” Amsterdam, N.Y.’s community museum is named for Elwood. Podcast "29 Minutes" Download MP3August 14, 2020 Friday, August 14, 2020-Episode 331-Joanne Blaauboer has been researching the old Presbyterian Church graveyard in the hamlet of Fish House on Great Sacandaga Lake. Church deacon Abraham Beecher is buried there. He was the cousin of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe Blaauboer is Town of Northampton Deputy historian. Download MP3August 07, 2020 Friday, August 7, 2020-Episode 330-Margaret Weitekamp chairs the space history department at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She is author of “Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program.” Download MP3August 05, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #19. The Mayor talks about his current illness, the corona virus in Amsterdam and numerous city news topics. This is the last episode of Extra Edition, a weekly interview with people in the news. We will continue to produce weekly episodes of the Historians Podcast on topics relating to local, regional and national history. Download MP3July 31, 2020 Friday, July 31, 2020-Dan Weaver’s latest book contains 60 of his local history columns, most of which first appeared in the Amsterdam Recorder “Between the Cracks: Forgotten Stories of Amsterdam, N.Y. and the Mohawk Valley.” Dan sells books and other historical items online at thebookhound.com. Friday Podcast "29 Minutes" Download MP3July 29, 2020 Thursday, July 30, 2020-Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort is the guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #18. Download MP3July 24, 2020 Friday, July 24, 2020-Episode 328-Amy Catania of Historic Saranac Lake explains how that upstate New York community became a center for the treatment of tuberculosis. Download MP3July 22, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #17. The Mayor talks about the corona virus and topics including a roundabout the state plans to start work on this September in the city of Amsterdam. Download MP3July 17, 2020 Grant Cottage on Mount McGregor in northern Saratoga County is now open for the season. For more information-https://www.grantcottage.org/ Episode 327-Tim Welch discusses Grant Cottage in northern Saratoga County where Ulysses S. Grant died after finishing his memoirs of the Civil War. Download MP3July 15, 2020 Thursday, July 16, 2020-Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort is the guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #16. Ossenfort reports an increase in corona virus cases in the county. Download MP3July 10, 2020 Friday, July 10, 2020-Episode 326-A look at the history of the Albany County town of New Scotland with Alan Kowlowitz, president of the New Scotland Historical Association, and town historian Bob Parmenter. Download MP3July 08, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #15. The Mayor talks about the corona virus, the return of Amsterdam Mohawks baseball and city finances. Download MP3July 03, 2020 Friday, July 3, 2020-Episode 325-Archaeologist and historian Wayne Lenig is author of “Fort Plain, Fort Plank, Fort Rensselaer: The Revolutionary War Forts of Canajohary.” Download MP3July 01, 2020 Wednesday, July 1, 2019--The guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #14 is Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort. Ossenfort has timely information on the COVID 19 virus outbreak among workers at a manufacturing plant in Fonda, a Buy Montgomery Campaign and more. Download MP3June 26, 2020 Friday, June 26, 2020-Episode 324- Janny Venema came to Albany, New York, from The Netherlands 35 years ago and went to work translating New Netherland colony early Dutch manuscripts with project director Charles Gehring. She is retiring now and heading back to The Netherlands. Venema is author of “Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664” and a biography, “Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1643): Designing a New World.” Download MP3 June 24, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #13. The Mayor talks about the corona virus and city finances. Download MP3June 19, 2020 Friday, June 19, 2020-Episode 323-Historian Wanda Burch tells stories from her book “The Home Voices Speak Louder than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs.” Download MP3June 18, 2020 Controversy over Charging Bull and Fearless Girl, two Manhattan statues, is the topic on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #12. Jim Kaplan is the guest. Thursday Podcast "20 Minutes" Download MP3June 12, 2020 Friday, June 12, 2020-Episode 322- Archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and her husband W. Michael Gear have written over 60 novels about prehistoric North America. Their latest book, set in what is now Utah, is “People of the Canyons.” Download MP3June 10, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #11. The Mayor talks about the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Amsterdam, the re-opening of city hall, the corona virus pandemic and other issues. Download MP3June 05, 2020 Friday, June 5, 2020-Episode 321-Movie historian and SUNY Albany lecturer emeritus Audrey Kupferberg discusses film preservation. Download MP3June 04, 2020 What will the COVID 19 crisis mean for future generations? Some thoughts from Patricia Walsh Chadwick on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #10. Chadwick previously appeared on Historians Podcast discussing her memoir, “Little Sister.” Podcast "21 Minutes" https://www.patriciachadwick.com/ Download MP3May 29, 2020 Friday, May 29, 2020-Episode 320-Researcher and historic actor Phil Weaver discusses his new book, “The 3rd New Jersey in New-York: Stories from ‘The Jersey Greys’ of 1776.” Download MP3May 27, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Special Edition #9. The Mayor talks about issues facing the city in the wake of the corona virus shutdown. Download MP3May 22, 2020 Friday, May 22, 2020-Episode 319-Hear about the Miracle on Ice and more from sports journalist and skater Christie Sausa, author of the book “Lake Placid: Figure Skating, A History.” Download MP3May 21, 2020 Thursday, May 21, 2020-Jim Kaplan lives in New Rochelle, the first hot spot in the corona virus outbreak in New York State. He has the latest on efforts to save historic sites dedicated to American Revolution pamphleteer Thomas Paine in New Rochelle on Historians Podcast Special Edition #8. For information on how you can help the Thomas Paine cause, email savepaineslegacy@gmail.com Download MP3May 15, 2020 Friday, May 15, 2020-Episode 318-Nina Sankovitch talks about her new book on the American Revolution: “American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution” Download MP3May 13, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #7. The Mayor talks about how the easing of the virus restrictions in Montgomery County will affect Amsterdam, and other topics. Download MP3May 08, 2020 Friday, May 8, 2020-Episode 317-Brad Balukjian tracks down ballplayers from a single pack of 1986 baseball cards for his book “The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife” Download MP3May 07, 2020 Historians Podcast Extra Edition #6 features Wanda Burch with a presentation on the imagery and energy of dreaming. Wanda is a 30 year breast cancer survivor and author of the book “Healing through Dreamwork.” Wanda’s talk on this topic was part of a retreat for women with chronic illness that was cancelled because of the pandemic. Download MP3May 01, 2020 Episode 316-SUNY Albany history professor Richard Hamm on what really happened during Prohibition. He is co-editor of “Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade.” Download MP3April 29, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #5. The Mayor talks about food distribution, corona virus news from Amsterdam and the importance of the census. He also covers other topics including an update on the situation regarding his daughter, about to give birth in Brooklyn. Episode #5 Recorded Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Download MP3April 24, 2020 Friday, April 24, 2020-Episode 315-A look back at movie star Kirk Douglas’s roots in Amsterdam, N.Y., featuring WGY radio audio from June 1, 1985, Kirk Douglas day in Amsterdam. Then Governor Mario Cuomo spoke as a city park was named for the famous actor. Download MP3April 22, 2020 The guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #4 is Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort. In an interview recorded, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 11am Ossenfort has timely information on the COVID 19 virus. Ossenfort has been working with hard hit dairy farmers. Download MP3April 17, 2020 Friday, April 17, 2020-Episode 314-Environmental educator Anita Sanchez has history stories from the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Malta historian Paul Perreault tells the tale of a missing metal eagle. And local history authors are interviewed at the 2016 Chronicle Book Fair in Glens Falls. Download MP3April 15, 2020 Amsterdam Mayor Michael Cinquanti has the latest local report on COVID 19 And other news on the Historians Podcast Extra Edition #3. Podcast "22 Minutes" Posted at 11am, Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Download MP3April 10, 2020 Friday, April 10, 2020-Episode 313-Matthew Costello, author of “The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President.” Download MP3April 09, 2020 Thursday, April 9, 2020-Historians Podcast: Extra Edition #2-Marietta Carr, librarian at Schenectady County Historical Society, discusses how to keep track of the local history of COVID 19. Author Nina Sankovitch talks about releasing her new history book “American Rebels” in the middle of the pandemic. Download MP3April 03, 2020 Friday, April 3, 2020-Episode 312-Susan Leath, town historian of Bethlehem, N.Y.—did explorer Henry Hudson land there? Plus, courtesy of WAMC public radio, Bob Cudmore is interviewed by Lucas Willard on the impact Kirk Douglas had on his hometown, Amsterdam, N.Y. Download MP3April 01, 2020
In a special podcast, Mayor Michael Cinquanti has an update on corona virus news in Amsterdam, N.Y. The Mayor talks about a personal family connection to the virus and explains city efforts to help citizens cope with the new reality. Recorded 9 a.m. April 1, 2020 Download MP3March 29, 2020 Sunday, March 29, 2020- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Guilderland town supervisor Peter Barber. Download MP3March 27, 2020 Friday, 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.” Download MP3March 22, 2020 Sunday, March 22, 2020- Bob Cudmore’s guests on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town are Albany County Executive Dan McCoy and Rev. Sara Baron, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Schenectady, discussing the impact of the corona virus. Download MP3March 20, 2020 Friday, March 20, 2020-Episode 310-World War II historian Sinclair McKay is author of “The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945.” Download MP3March 15, 2020 Sunday, March 15, 2020- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. Download MP3March 13, 2020 Friday, March 13, 2020-Episode 309-Adirondack history with Howard Schaffer, president of the Hadley-Lake Luzerne Historical Society; the Glenville, N.Y., bicentennial with Town Supervisor Chris Koetzle and the life of Avery King Clizbe. Jr., known as radio entertainer King Owen on WENT in Gloversville-Johnstown in the 1950s. Download MP3March 08, 2020 Sunday, March 8, 2020- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is environmental educator and author Anita Sanchez. Download MP3March 06, 2020 Friday, March 6, 2020-Episode 308-Journalist Buddy Levy is author of “Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition.” The book details the harrowing story of A.W. Greely’s expedition in the 1880s. Download MP3March 01, 2020 Sunday, March 1, 2020- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is the new president of Siena College in Loudonville, former Congressman and retired decorated Army officer Chris Gibson. Download MP3February 28, 2020 Friday, February 28, 2020-Episode 307-Professor Peter Ward explores the history of personal cleanliness over the past 400 years in Europe and North America in his book, “The Clean Body.” Download MP3February 23, 2020 Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy is Bob Cudmore’s guest today on Talk of the Town on Magic 590 and 100.5. Hear about proposals to spend a $10 million dollar state grant for downtown Schenectady development including an entertainment center and a water park. Download MP3February 21, 2020 Friday, February 21, 2020-Episode 306-Controversy has developed involving American Revolution advocate Thomas Paine and neglect of historic sites dedicated to Paine’s memory in New Rochelle in Westchester County. New Rochelle resident and historian Jim Kaplan explains the issue. Kaplan was author of an essay on the subject in the New York History Blog. Download MP3February 16, 2020 Bethlehem Town Supervisor David VanLuven is Bob Cudmore’s guest today on Talk of the Town on Magic 590. Hear the latest on the Port of Albany’s plan for Bethlehem and learn about famous people (like Megyn Kelly and Eva Marie Saint) who are natives of the town. Listen each Sunday morning for Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic 590 and 100.5. Download MP3February 14, 2020 Friday, February 14, 2020-Episode 305-Malta N.Y. town historian Paul Perreault has the story of a famous drawing of Andersonville Prison in Georgia done by a Union prisoner, Thomas O’Dea. Perreault also has an account of the Saratoga Battlefield and the story of a fighting chaplain in World War I, Reverend Francis Kelly. Download MP3February 09, 2020 Sunday, February 9, 2020-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Glenville town Supervisor Chris Koetzle Download MP3February 07, 2020 Friday, February 7, 2020-Episode 304-Maria Riccio Bryce discusses her historical music production Home Again which deals with her hometown and current residence of Amsterdam, N.Y. The production can be seen Feb. 21-23 at Amsterdam High School, Proceeds benefit Amsterdam Free Library. Download MP3February 02, 2020 Bob Cudmore’s Magic 590 Talk of the Town guest today, Sunday, February 2, 2020 is Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett. Topics include construction work on Ashdown Road and Sitterly Road and a discussion planned for town residents on organic lawn care. Listen Sunday on Magic 590 plus 100.5, and on 1410 and 96.9 in the Glens Falls/Lake George region. Download MP3January 31, 2020 Friday, January 31, 2020-Episode 303-Bob Cudmore reads three stories from an audio tour compiled by Montgomery County historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar: the Palatine Church, Charleston’s forests and the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine. Also the story of Amsterdam drama coach Bert DeRose and from the archives, historian David Pietrusza on the last years of Teddy Roosevelt. Download MP3January 26, 2020 Bob Cudmore’s guest today on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Colonie Town Supervisor Paula Mahan. Topics include new Northway Exit 3, a computer attack on town records and public safety in Colonie. Hear Talk of the Town Sunday morning on Magic 590 plus 100.5, and on 96.9 and 1410 in the North Country. Download MP3January 24, 2020 Friday, January 24, 2020-Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz has a story about blackouts during World War II plus the tale of W.C. Porter, the absconding drummer and the convicted man who convinced a friend to go to jail in his place. Download MP3January 19, 2020 Sunday, January 19, 2020-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple Download MP3January 17, 2020 Friday, January 17, 2020-Episode 301-Caryl Hopson and Susan Perkins discuss a book they have edited, “Murder and Mayhem in Herkimer County.” One chapter describes the death of Grace Brown, which became one of the most famous cases in the country, inspiring Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy.” Download MP3January 12, 2020 Sunday, January 12, 2020-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is the new Schenectady Symphony Orchestra conductor Glen Cortese Download MP3January 10, 2020 Friday, January 10, 2020-Episode 300-Montgomery County historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar discusses an audio tour along the Erie Canal Bikeway in that county. Bob Cudmore reads three vignettes—Fort Klock, the Noses and the Putman Canal Store. Download MP3January 05, 2020 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590's Talk of the Town today, Sunday, January 5, 2020 is Troy Mayor Patrick Madden. Mayor Madden discusses concerns over a downtown parking garage, the city budget and the start of his second term in office. Hear Talk of the Town every Sunday on Magic 590 and 100.5, plus in the Lake George/Glens Falls area on 1410 and 96.9. Download MP3January 03, 2020 Historians Podcast-Episode 299-Excerpts from 12 of 2019’s podcasts. The guests are Norm Bollen, Nick Bunker, Patricia Walsh Chadwick, Richard Ratajak, Beth Hill, Maeve McEneny, Rod Pyle, Curt Breneman, Dan Weaver, Samantha Hall-Saladino, Charles Postel, Bill Buell and Leigh Eckmair. Download MP3December 27, 2019 Friday, December 27, 2019-Episode 298-Marty Brounstein is author of “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust.” The book tells the story of Frans and Mien Wijnakker, two Dutch Christians who sheltered Dutch Jews in World War II. Download MP3December 20, 2019 Friday, December 20, 2019-Episode 297-Wayne Van Der Wal is the author of the historical fiction novel, "The Gospel of Santa Claus – Inspired by the True Story of Saint Nicholas." Download MP3December 15, 2019 Sunday, December 15, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. Download MP3December 13, 2019 Friday, December 13, 2019-Episode 296-Leigh Eckmair is village of Gilbertsville and town of Butternuts historian in Otsego County, New York. She explains why the entire village of Gilbertsville has been named an historic district. Download MP3December 08, 2019 Sunday, December 8, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy. Download MP3December 06, 2019 Friday, December 6, 2019-Episode 295- Kevin Wilson tells the story of his uncle who was killed in action in World War II in Sicily. Salvatore “Sully” Fringi was the first soldier from Granville, N.Y., to die in that war. Wilson has written a young adult historical fiction novel called “Sully’s Squad.” Download MP3December 01, 2019 Episode 294-Marta McDowell discusses her book about a 19th century American poet, “Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life.” McDowell was gardener-in-residence at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, last year. Download MP3November 24, 2019 Sunday, November 24, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Amsterdam Mayor-elect Mike Cinquanti. Download MP3November 22, 2019 Friday, November 22, 2019-Episode 293-William Schaberg takes a detailed look at the early history of Alcoholics Anonymous in his book “Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.” Download MP3November 17, 2019 Sunday, November 17, 2019-Clifton Park town supervisor Phil Barrett is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. Download MP3November 15, 2019 Friday, November 15, 2019-Episode 292-Diana Waite on “The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History.” Waite, who lives in Troy, served a decade as executive director of the Preservation League of New York State. Download MP3November 10, 2019 Sunday, November 10, 2019-Patricia Fennell of Albany Health Management Associates is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. She counsels clients on chronic illness and trauma. http://www.albanyhealthmanagement.com/ Download MP3November 08, 2019 Friday, November 8, 2019-Episode 291-Bill Buell discusses his new book on Schenectady’s socialist mayor, “George Lunn: The 1912 Socialist Victory in Schenectady.” Buell is Schenectady County historian and worked many years as a reporter and feature writer for the Daily Gazette. Download MP3November 03, 2019 Sunday, November 3, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Ned Jones, director of enrollment management at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. Download MP3November 01, 2019 Friday, November 1, 2019-Episode 290-Arthur Piccolo has stories about the fascinating history of New York City’s oldest public park, Bowling Green in lower Manhattan. You Tube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyl9-6DdLlp-6ac8jfJ4dDg/videos Download MP3October 27, 2019 Sunday, October 27, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. Download MP3October 25, 2019 Friday, October 25, 2019-Episode 289-Kimberly Collins focuses on women’s involvement in the 1912 Appalachian Coal Mine Wars in her native West Virginia in her historical novel “Blood Creek.” Download MP3October 20, 2019 Sunday, October 20, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Maggie Mancinelli Cahill of Capital Rep Theatre in Albany. Download MP3October 18, 2019 Friday, October 18, 2019-Episode 288-Army veteran and Utica College student David Cooney discusses his research on upstate New York prisoner of war camps where German soldiers were housed in World War II. One such camp was near today’s Fort Drum and another was in Utica. Download MP3October 13, 2019 Two members of the Capital District chapter of Better Angels, Riley Hart and Bruce France, join Bob Cudmore on Talk of the Town today. Better Angels brings people with different political views together to find common ground. Broadcast each Sunday on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and 1410 and 96.9 in the Glens Falls area. Download MP3October 11, 2019 Friday, October 11, 2019-Episode 287-Historian and retired librarian David Fiske questions the persistent claim that Ballston Spa native and Civil War general Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball in Cooperstown, N.Y. Download MP3October 06, 2019 Sunday, October 6, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Mike Saccocio of the Schenectady City Mission. Download MP3October 04, 2019 Friday, October 4, 2019-Episode 286-Charles Postel, author of “Equality: An American Dilemma 1866-1896,” follows three organizations: the Grange, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Knights of Labor. Download MP3September 27, 2019 Friday, September 27, 2019-Episode 285-Eric Schnitzer, national historical park ranger, is author of “Don Troiani's Campaign to Saratoga-1777: The Turning Point of the Revolutionary War in Paintings, Artifacts, and Historical Narrative.” Don Troiani is an historical and military artist. Download MP3September 22, 2019 Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore takes a look at the Capital District job market. The guest is Miriam Dushane who advises local companies on how to hire and keep good employees. Listen each Sunday on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and on 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country. Podcast posted hear on The Historians Download MP3September 20, 2019 Friday, September 20, 2019-Episode 284–Duncan White talks about Howard Fast (who wrote the novel that was the basis for Kirk Douglas’s movie Spartacus), Boris Pasternak and other authors in White’s book: “The Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged The Literary Cold War.” Download MP3September 15, 2019 Sunday, September 15, 2019-Sara Foss, news columnist for the Daily Gazette, is Bob Cudmore’s guest at 6:30 this morning on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. Foss comments on the St. Clare’s Hospital pensioners plight and topics, including a fee for new state license plates. Download MP3September 13, 2019 Friday, September 13, 2019-Episode 283-The role of the glove industry in Fulton County is being explored in a series of displays and programs called the Year of the Glove. Fulton County historian Samantha Hall-Saladino, a Gloversville native, discusses this project. Download MP3September 08, 2019 Sunday, September 8, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 AM and 100.5 FM is Amsterdam Congressman Paul Tonko Download MP3September 06, 2019 Friday, September 6, 2019- Episode 282-Malta N.Y. town historian Paul Perreault details the history of a rocket test site, operated by GE in Malta. Also stories about NASA pioneers Rocco Petrone and Stan Jevitt. Norm Bollen of Fort Plain Museum explains why he is concerned with treasure seekers using metal detectors on museum property. Download MP3August 30, 2019 Friday, August 30, 2019-Episode 281-Jim Richmond, the coordinator of the Saratoga County History Roundtable, discusses the growth of interest in local history in that county. Download MP3August 25, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, August 25, 2019 is Congressman Antonio Delgado from the 19th Congressional District. Delgado talks about gun violence, problems facing upstate farmers, health care and other issues. Talk of the Town on Magic 590 and 100.5 plus 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country. Download MP3August 23, 2019 Friday, August 23, 2019-Episode 280-Bob Cudmore has stories about the 1957 Mohawk Indian encampment in Fort Hunter, how Amsterdam’s wealthy Sanford family inspired a 1938 motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn and how a florist, rabbi and judge in the Mohawk Valley were known for their speaking abilities. Download MP3August 18, 2019 Today on Magic 590, Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town talks about the growth of interest in the history of Saratoga County. From horse racing to rocket engines, Saratoga County has historically important stories according to Jim Richmond of the History Roundtable. Download MP3August 16, 2019 Friday, August 16, 2019-Episode 279-Walking tour historian Jim Kaplan looks at the history of Fourth of July celebrations in New York City. Video of this year’s Fourth of July parade organized by the Lower Manhattan Historical Association can be watched here https://youtu.be/J03OcpDdSns Download MP3August 11, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, August 11, 2019 is a retired Schenectady GE engineer, Michael Davi who has written a book about his experiences over a 40 year career. Hear Talk of The Town on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country Download MP3August 10, 2019 Sherri Cash, history professor at Utica College, talks about the ginseng root, which grew wild in upstate New York in the 18th century. A colonial global trading network shipped ginseng to China, where it was prized as a health tonic, in return for tea. Download MP3August 04, 2019 Sunday, August 4, 2019-On Magic 590’s Talk of the Town, Michael Riley discusses his book, Bridge Dams on the Mohawk. Download MP3August 02, 2019 Dan Weaver (owner of The Bookhound in Amsterdam) talks about his new book "The Willigee Negroes: Sir William Johnson, Sir Peter Warren and an 18th Century Free Black Community in the Mohawk Valley.” Download MP3July 28, 2019 Topics on Magic 590's Talk of the Town this weekend include a closer than expected primary election for Schenectady Mayor, resident complaints at a housing complex on Hamilton Hill and whatever happened to Schenectady’s replica of the Statue of Liberty? Sara Foss, news columnist for the Daily Gazette, is Bob Cudmore’s guest. Listen each Sunday morning at 6:30 on Magic 590 and 100.5, also heard in the North Country on 1410 and 96.9. Download MP3July 26, 2019 Friday, July 26, 2019-Episode 276-Colonie town historian Kevin Franklin explains the historic importance of Schuyler Flatts, now a town park between Menands and Watervliet but previously a home of the prominent Schuyler family. Download MP3July 21, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town this weekend is Frank Leak, mayor of the village of Colonie. The 92-year old mayor was honored during South Colonie high school graduation last month and addressed the students on how he overcame being bullied. Mayor Leak did not attend his own high school graduation because he had left for basic training in World War II in the U.S. Navy. Listen on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and on 96.9 and 1410 in the North Country. Posted as a Podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3July 19, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019-Episode 275-Perspectives on the 1969 moon landing by American astronauts from Rod Pyle of NASA, author of “First on the Moon,” and Curt Breneman, dean of science at RPI in Troy, N.Y. Download MP3July 14, 2019 Sunday, July 14, 2019-On Magic 590’s Talk of the Town Rod Pyle of NASA and Curt Breneman, dean of science at RPI, discuss the 1969 moon landing. Download MP3July 12, 2019 Friday, July 12, 2019- Episode 274-David Fiske discusses an 1840s enslavement case (similar to Solomon Northup) involving an African American named Eli Terry of Indiana. Fiske, previously co-author of a book on Northup Download MP3July 05, 2019 Friday, July 5, 2019- Episode 273-Bob Cudmore has stories about the Charleston Historical Society, Adirondack YMCA Camp Agaming and a Washington D.C. area physician’s memories of Amsterdam, N.Y. Download MP3June 30, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today has advice on Alzheimer’s Disease. Social worker Mary Moller is author of the book, “Alzheimer’s Through the Stages: A Caregiver’s Guide.” Listen Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and on 96.9 and 1410 in the North Country. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3June 28, 2019 Friday, June 28, 2019-Episode 272- A long stretch of New York’s Mohawk River became a canal in the early 1900s. Bridge dams made that possible and are still in use today. Michael Riley is author of the book “Bridge Dams on the Mohawk: David A. Watt’s Marvelous Creation.” Riley is the guest on this week’s Historians Podcast. Download MP3June 23, 2019 Sunday, June 23, 2019- Bob Cudmore’s guests on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town are Albany’s Historic Cherry Hill executive director Deborah Emmons-Andarawis and Albany city tour guide Maeve McEneny. Download MP3June 21, 2019 Episode 271-Albany, N.Y., history tour guide Maeve McEneny talks about her native city and tours she has created on historic landmarks, literature and even pubs. McEneny is Education and Heritage Coordinator at the Albany Visitor Center. https://www.albany.org/ Download MP3June 16, 2019 Sunday, June 16, 2019- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. Download MP3June 14, 2019 Friday, June 14, 2019-Episode 270-Deborah Emmons-Andarawis is executive director at Historic Cherry Hill, an 18th century house museum on South Pearl Street in Albany New York. Hear about the lives of the former residents and the gripping tale of a murder at Cherry Hill in the 1800s. Download MP3June 07, 2019 Episode 269-Czech filmmaker Andrea Culkova discusses her current project, The Magic Carpet. The documentary is about a carpet manufacturer in the Czech Republic but Culkova’s research took her to Amsterdam, N.Y., for a video shoot and interviews regarding the years when Amsterdam was called the Carpet City. Download MP3June 02, 2019 Sunday, June 2, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Capital District Congressman Paul Tonko. Download MP3May 31, 2019 Friday, May 31, 2019-Episode 268-Beth Hill is president and CEO of Fort Ticonderoga. Hill discusses the historic site’s emphasis on 1758 in this season’s activities, a year in which a large British army was unable to capture the fort, defended by a much smaller French garrison. https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ Download MP3May 26, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town today, Sunday, May 26, 2019 is Beth Hill, CEO of Fort Ticonderoga. The fort is a popular North Country historic site and tourist destination. Listen Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and on these North Country stations, 1410 and 96.9. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3May 24, 2019 Friday, May 24, 2019-Episode 267- Linda Thompson is author of the historical novel “The Plum Blooms in Winter.” The book is based on the 1942 American air raid on Tokyo led by pioneer aviator Jimmy Doolittle. Download MP3May 19, 2019 Sunday, May 19, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of “Little Sister,” the story of her childhood in a Roman Catholic commune. Download MP3May 17, 2019 Friday, May 17, 2019-Episode 266-Bob Cudmore has stories from the Mohawk Valley: Amsterdam’s downtown movie theaters, a syndicated journalist from Fonda and a Civil War surgeon who was born in Root, N.Y. Download MP3May 12, 2019 Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort is Bob Cudmore’s guest this weekend on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. Ossenfort is now opposed to a planned industrial park in the Montgomery County town of Mohawk, noting that the unemployment rate in his county has declined substantially because of previous business growth. Listen each Sunday on Magic 590 and 100.5 in Albany and 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country. Posted as a Podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3May 10, 2019 Friday, May 10, 2019-Episode 265-Leader Herald newspaper history columnist Peter Betz has stories about a murderer who wanted to hang and a salesman who stole the goods he was supposed to sell. Download MP3May 05, 2019 Sara Foss, news columnist for the Daily Gazette, is Bob Cudmore’s guest today on Talk of the Town. Topics include how to handle school bus bullies, helping St. Clare’s Hospital pensioners and is the Schenectady revival for real. Listen each Sunday on Magic 590 and 100.5 radio in Albany, also heard in the Glens Falls/Lake George Region on 1410 AM and 96.9 FM. The interview posted online hear on The Historians Download MP3May 03, 2019 Friday May 3, 2019-Episode 264-Roger Higgins is author of “Billy Gogan Gone Fer Soldier,” a historical novel about an Irish immigrant and his experiences in the Mexican-American War in the 1840s. Download MP3April 28, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest this weekend on Talk of the Town is Niskayuna town councilwoman Denise Murphy McGraw. She discusses town finances and remembers the life of philanthropist Jane Golub who was a Niskayuna resident. Listen Every Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 in Albany and 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country. Posted as a Podcast on The Historians Download MP3April 26, 2019 Friday, 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. Download MP3April 21, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today is Tim Rizzuto, executive director of the World War II era USS Slater destroyer escort, moored in Albany and open as an historical museum. Listen each Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 in Albany and on 1410 and 96.9 in Glens Falls. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3April 19, 2019 Friday, April 19, 2019-Episode 262-Warren Garling tells how his career as a radio disc jockey began at a young age in his memoir, “I’ll Have to Ask My Mom: A Radio Journey.” Using the on-air name Chris Warren, he is still heard on Capital District radio. Download MP3April 14, 2019
Sunday, April 14, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town today is Siena College men’s basketball coach Carmen Maciariello. Download MP3April 12, 2019
Friday, April 12-Episode 261-Richard Ratajak, now 87, looks back on his life as a child in Amsterdam, a soldier in the Korean War, and a priest in training who served summers at Auriesville Shrine. Ratajak left the priesthood to marry the woman he loved and held jobs in state government as he gradually lost his eyesight. He worked for the state agency that helped blind people find meaningful work and served on the board of RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind. Download MP3April 07, 2019
Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, April 7, 2019 on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Carm Basile, CEO of Capital District Transportation Authority. He has the latest on a possible expansion of CDTA bus service to Montgomery County, the future of electric buses and other topics. Listen Every Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 plus on 96.9 and 1410 in the Glens Falls area. Download MP3April 05, 2019 Friday, April 5-Episode 260-Bruce Chadwick, author of “The General and Mrs. Washington: The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution,” talks about joy and tragedy in the lives of George and Martha Washington. Chadwick was a featured speaker at the recent George Washington Symposium sponsored by the Fort Plain Museum. Download MP3March 31, 2019
Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town today, Sunday, March 31, 2019 is Lake George Village Mayor Bob Blais, who is the longest serving mayor in the state, first elected in 1971! Mayor Blais talks about Lake George’s role as a destination resort and the need to build an essential but expensive wastewater treatment plant. Listen every Sunday morning at 6:30 on Magic 590 and 100.5 in Albany plus 1410 and 96.9 in the Lake George-Glens Falls region. Download MP3March 29, 2019 Friday, March 29-Episode 259-Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of “Little Sister,” a memoir about her childhood in which she was raised in an excommunicated Roman Catholic community. Download MP3March 24, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town on Magic 590 radio and hear on The Historians is bird expert Rich Guthrie. Richard has fascinating stories about bird migration and courtship plus advice, such as bring the bird feeders in if bears are spotted in your neighborhood! Listen each Sunday at 6:30 a.m. to Talk of the Town on Magic 590 and 100.5, plus 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country. Download MP3March 22, 2019 Friday, March 22-Episode 258-Michael Davi recounts his 40-year career as a General Electric engineer in his book “PrivileGEd: Experiences From My Unusual 40-year Career With One of America's Most Iconic Companies." Download MP3March 16, 2019 Sara Foss, news columnist for the Daily Gazette, is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town this weekend. Foss looks at Schenectady politics, has a heartwarming story about former Schenectady High basketball standout Willie Dean and takes a critical look at Kirsten Gillibrand’s Presidential campaign. https://dailygazette.com/ Download MP3March 15, 2019 Friday, March 15, 2019-Episode 257-Mohawk Valley singer-songwriters Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle play songs and tell stories from their new show on the 19th century lumberjacks of upstate New York. Download MP3 March 10, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, March 10, 2019 on Talk of the Town is Yasmine Syed, Supervisor of the Schenectady County Town of Niskayuna. Syed discusses a possible zoning change for property adjacent to Mohawk Commons to provide both housing and retail. She also talks about a controversial pilot project to treat waste from a soda bottling plant. Hear Talk of the Town Sunday morning at 6:30 on Magic 590 and 100.5, plus 96.9 and 1410 in the North Country. Download MP3March 08, 2019 Friday, March 8, 2019-Episode 256-Robin Oliveira discusses her book “Winter Sisters,” set in Albany, N.Y., in 1879. Oliveira grew up in the Albany area and is also author of a novel about a Civil War physician, “My Name is Mary Sutter.” Sutter is a major character in “Winter Sisters.” Download MP3March 03, 2019 Albany Times Union news columnist Chris Churchill is Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, March 3, 2019 on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. Churchill talks about the Albany Convention Center, New York State’s loss of the Amazon facility and a touching story from Rensselaer County about the “widowhood effect.” Listen at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 plus in the North Country at 96.9 and 1410. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3March 01, 2019 Friday, March 1, 2019-Episode 255-Frankie Y. Bailey, a criminal justice professor at the University at Albany, discusses issues in the history of crime and her own career as a criminal mystery writer. http://www.frankieybailey.com Download MP3February 24, 2019 Glenville Town Supervisor Chris Koetzle is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town. Hear the latest on plans for a new town hall, police department and senior center. Listen Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5. We’re also heard in the North Country on 1410 AM and 96.9 FM. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3February 22, 2019 Episode 254-Sandy Maceyka, vice president of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Consortium (ECSWC), explains a fund raising campaign to build a statue of the women’s rights leader in Stanton’s home town of Johnstown, N.Y. https://www.ecswc.org/ Download MP3February 17, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest this weekend on Talk of the Town is Albany County Executive Dan McCoy. Topics include the opioid crisis, relocation of the county election board and an honor bestowed on Vietnam War hero Charles Chandler. Listen at 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and two signals in the North Country: 96.9 and 1410. Download MP3February 15, 2019 The Historians Podcast: Episode 253-Bob Cudmore has stories from local history he had planned to share with the Broadalbin-Kennyetto Historical Society. The Broadalbin talk was cancelled because of a power outage. Stories include the impact of Minaville native Sheldon Jackson on development of Alaska. Download MP3February 10, 2019 Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple is Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, February 10, 2019 on Talk of the Town. The Sheriff updates efforts to block deportation of an Albany rescue mission cook, talks about the importance of watching out for your neighbors in the winter and describes efforts by an Albany Law School student to to prevent jail inmates from being repeat offenders. Listen each Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 FM in Albany plus Glens Falls stations 1410 AM and 96.9 FM. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3February 08, 2019 Episode 252 Historians Podcast, Pulitzer Prize finalist Nick Bunker discusses his book, “Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity.” www.youngbenjaminfranklin.com Nick Bunker on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Bunker/e/B002R0IKYO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1549625252&sr=8-1 Download MP3February 03, 2019 The guest this weekend on Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore is Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy. The program airs Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 AM, 100.5 FM plus two radio signals in Glens Falls, 1410 AM and 96.9 FM, and online on The Historians Download MP3February 01, 2019 Friday, February 1-Historians Podcast, Episode 251-Curator Susanna Fout discusses the Schenectady County Historical Society exhibit: Back in My Day: Childhood, Play, and Schenectady. Download MP3January 27, 2019 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, January 27, 2019 is Troy Mayor Patrick Madden. Mayor Madden discusses how Troy is faring with winter weather, Kirsten Gillibrand’s run for President with her headquarters in Troy and the process of choosing a new Troy fire chief. Hear Talk of the Town Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5, now also heard in the Lake George/Glens Falls area on 1410 AM and 96.9 FM. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3January 25, 2019 Friday, January 25, 2019-Historians Podcast, Episode 250: James Kaplan of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association discusses the effort to commemorate the site of the first Jewish synagogue in North America. Download MP3January 20, 2019 Phil Barrett and Bob Cudmore at Albany Broadcasting Bob Cudmore’s Talk of the Town guest today is longtime Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett. The town just received an improved credit rating from Moody’s investor services. Listen Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5, and on 1410 AM and 96.9 FM in the Glens Falls/Lake George region. Download MP3January 18, 2019 Historians Podcast Episode 249- Jeff Haraden discusses the 100 year history of the family car dealership, Mohawk Honda, now headquartered in Glenville, New York. His grandfather, Joseph Haraden, Sr., was a General Electric engineer who founded the business in Schenectady In 1919. https://www.mohawkhonda.com/ Download MP3January 13, 2019 The guest this weekend on Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore is Schenectady Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. The program airs Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 AM, 100.5 FM plus two radio stations in Glens Falls and online hear at The Historians Download MP3January 11, 2019 Friday, January 11, 2019-Historians Podcast Episode 248, Jack Kelly is author of “The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America.” Kelly tells the story of the 1894 Pullman strike. Download MP3January 06, 2019 Chris Churchill Albany TU on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore, Sunday, January 6, 2019. Broadcast each Sunday on Magic 590 and 100.5FM WROW Download MP3January 04, 2019 Norm Bollen talks to Bob Cudmore about his new book "Geroge Washington and The Mohawk Frontier" Download MP3December 28, 2018 Friday, December 28, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 246-Business reporter and finance professor Kathleen Day looks at the history of America’s economic cycle of boom, bust and taxpayer-funded bailout. Day is author of “Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street.” Download MP3December 21, 2018 Friday, December 21, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 245-Jerry Snyder and John Naple discuss the importance of the North Chuctanunda Creek in the economic development of Amsterdam, N.Y. Snyder and Historic Amsterdam League made the creek the focus of its 2019 calendar. Naple is a retired science teacher. Download MP3December 16, 2018 Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy is Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, December 16, 2018 on Magic 590 plus 100.5 on Talk of the Town Download MP3December 14, 2018 Friday, December 14, 2018- Historians Podcast Episode 244-Angelica Shirley Carpenter is author of “Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist.” A biography of one of the leaders of the women’s rights movement, who was also an influence on L. Frank Baum’s fictional works about Oz. Download MP3December 09, 2018 This weekend on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town, the guest is Troy Mayor Patrick Madden. The program airs Sundays at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 AM plus 100.5 FM, then online hear at The Historians Download MP3December 07, 2018 Friday, December 7, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 243-Bob Cudmore discusses the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Another topic: a steam train excursion in upstate New York in 1968. Download MP3December 02, 2018
Albany County Shefiff Craig Apple on Talk of The Town-Broadcast each week on Albany Magic 590WROW Download MP3 November 30, 2018 Friday, November 30, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 242-A look at the history of Transcendental Meditation and Hindu guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with Susan Shumsky, author of “Maharishi and Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles’ Guru.” Download MP3November 18, 2018
Sara Foss, news columnist for the Daily Gazette, is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today. Topics include remembering veterans, the recent elections and which area casino has the loosest slots. Listen each Sunday Morning on Magic 590 and 100.5 radio. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3November 16, 2018 Historians Podcast Episode 241-Peter Betz has the story of a Fulton County marbles champion from 1941. He also recounts issues with the Fulton County poor house in the 1800s. Peter Betz is the author of a biweekly history column in the Leader Herald newspaper. Download MP3November 11, 2018 Albany Times Union news columnist Chris Churchill and host Bob Cudmore discuss the outcome of this week’s local and statewide elections on Talk of the Town. Listen Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5. https://www.facebook.com/journalistchris Download MP3November 09, 2018 Friday, November 9, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 240-Suzanne Gordon looks at the history of veterans’ health care today and in the past. She is author of “Wounds of War: How the Veterans Administration Delivers Health, Healing and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans.” Download MP3November 04, 2018 Talk of The Town-Dan McCoy on Magic590 WROW Dan is serving his 2nd term as Albany County Exec. Hear Talk of The Town each Sunday on WROW Radio in Albany Download MP3November 02, 2018 Friday, November 2, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 239-Site manager Wade Wells at Johnson Hall State Historic Site in Johnstown, N.Y., looks at how 18th century settlers prepared for winter. Download MP3October 28, 2018 Today on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town, Amsterdam Mayor Michael Villa and host Bob Cudmore discuss the impact of the multi-fatality Schoharie limousine crash on Amsterdam, where many of the victims had lived. Talk of the Town Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5 Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians. Picture from Mohawk Valley Compass Download MP3October 26, 2018 Episode 238-Sue Ingalls Finan discusses her historical novel “The Cards Don’t Lie.” The book is based on real-life accounts of women during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. The victory of General Andrew Jackson’s American forces over the British at New Orleans effectively ended the War of 1812. Download MP3October 21, 2018 Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, October 21, 2018 is Troy Mayor Patrick Madden talking about the city budget, the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot and other topics. Listen 6:30 a.m. today on Magic 590 plus 100.5. Posted as a podcast hear on The Historians Download MP3October 19, 2018 Historians Podcast Episode 237-Utica historian and ghost hunter Dennis Webster discusses his new Youtube channel, a new book of fictional crime stories by several authors set in the Adirondacks, his work on the history of the Old Main mental asylum in Utica and other projects. Download MP3October 14, 2018 Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy is Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, October 14, 2018 on Magic 590 plus 100.5 on Talk of the Town. Mayor McCarthy talks about the effect of casino revenue on the city budget and a flood control plan for the Mohawk River. https://www.facebook.com/CityofSchenectady/ Download MP3 October 12, 2018 Friday, October 12, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 236-Tom Keefe, a retired City Court Judge and a collector of political items, discusses a rare collection of early nineteenth century campaign broadsides found at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Download MP3October 07, 2018 Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett is Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, October 7, 2018 Talk of the Town broadcast each Sunday on Magic 590 + 100.5. They discuss a proposal for the town's first roundabout. Download MP3October 05, 2018 Historians Podcast Episode 235 Montgomery County N.Y. historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar talks about her research on African American life and the abolitionist movement in the 1800s focusing on the village of Canajoharie. Download MP3September 30, 2018 Sunday, September 30, 2018-Magic 590 radio’s Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore features an interview with Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple. Download MP3September 28, 2018 Friday, September 28, 2018- Historians Podcast Episode 234-Amsterdam, N.Y. used to be the Carpet City. Bob Cudmore reports on the final years of the carpet mills in Amsterdam. Download MP3September 23, 2018 Sunday, September 23, 2018, 6:30 a.m.-Magic 590 radio Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore features an interview with Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss. Download MP3 September 21, 2018 Friday, September 21, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 233 David Fiske describes Charles Zimmy’s epic Hudson River swim from Albany to Manhattan in 1937. The story was first published on the New York History Blog. Download MP3September 16, 2018 Sunday, September 16, 2018-Magic 590 radio Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore features Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy explaining why he signed into law legislation preventing all restaurants in the county from using polysterene disposable food containers. Download MP3September 14, 2018 Friday, September 14, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 232 Bob Cudmore looks at the history of flooding in the Mohawk Valley in the Amsterdam, N.Y., area plus an account of the recent Schoharie River Center literary festival in Burtonville and the story of an animal farm in the hamlet of Cranesville, N.Y. Download MP3September 09, 2018 Troy Mayor Patrick Madden on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore. Broadcast each Sunday on Magic590 WROW Download MP3September 07, 2018 Friday, September 7, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 231 Stories from the book “Before They Were Our Mothers: Voices of Women Before Rosie Started Riveting,” including an account of sexual harassment in an office in Gloversville, N.Y. in 1941. Download MP3August 31, 2018 Friday, August 31, 2018-Historians Episode 230-Presidential historian David Pietrusza discusses his latest book, “TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy.” Download MP3August 26, 2018 Sunday, August 26, 2018 -Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore, Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy. Broadcast on Magic590 and posted as a podcast on The Historians. Download MP3August 24, 2018 Friday, August 24, 2018-Historians Episode 229-Did you know that General Horatio Gates, who accepted the surrender of British General John Burgoyne in the battle of Saratoga, is buried at Trinity Churchyard in New York City? That story and more when James Kaplan explains the work of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association. Download MP3August 17, 2018 Friday, August 17, 2018-Historians Episode 228- Harald Johnson is author of the historical novel New York 1609 which portrays the encounter between explorer Henry Hudson and early Dutch settlers with the Lenape Indians. http://haraldjohnson.com/ Download MP3August 10, 2018 Friday, August 10, 2018-Historians Episode 227-Communications officer Brien Bouyea discusses the National Museum of (Horse) Racing and Hall of Fame on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Download MP3August 05, 2018 The guest today on Magic 590 and 100.5 radio’s Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore is Albany Times Union news columnist Chris Churchill. Download MP3August 03, 2018 Friday, August 3, 2018-The Historians Episode 226- Scott Haefner, site manager, talks about Old Fort Johnson, the 1749 limestone house William Johnson built on the Mohawk River in colonial New York. It was fortified for protection during the French and Indian Wars. Download MP3July 29, 2018 Excerpts are heard from the popular new documentary: Harnessing Nature-Building the Great Sacandaga Lake. One of the producers, Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts, discusses how the film came to be. Talk of The Town broadcast each Sunday on Magic590WROW. Also on 100.5FM Download MP3July 27, 2018 Friday, July 27, 2018-Historians Episode 225-Eric Schnitzer is a park ranger/historian at Saratoga National Historical Park. He discusses the German soldiers, commonly called Hessians, who fought for the British in the northern campaign of the American Revolution in 1777. Download MP3July 15, 2018
Bob Cudmore’s guest today, Sunday, July 15, 2018 on Talk of the Town is Yasmine Syed, who defeated a ten-year incumbent last year to become Supervisor of the Schenectady County Town of Niskayuna. Hear Talk of the Town each Sunday at 6:30 on Magic 590 and 100.5. Posted as a podcast on The Historians. Download MP3July 13, 2018 Historians Episode 223-Julian Shabazz is author of the book “Black Stars of Professional Wrestling: Second Edition. It’s the story of the Black athletes who have participated in one of America's most popular sports entertainment events—professional wrestling. Download MP3July 10, 2018 Historians Episode 224-Bob Cudmore talks about a factory building in Fort Plain that was the 20th century home of Luxuray, makers of women’s underwear and talks about the Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam in the middle of the 20th century Download MP3July 08, 2018 Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss is my guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, July 8, 2018. She will discuss GE’s financial problems, the Poor People’s campaign, one woman’s crusade against drunken driving and other topics. Listen each week at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 then hear the podcast on bobcudmore.com and Albany magic.com. Download MP3July 06, 2018 Friday, July 6, 2018-Historians Episode 222-Jennifer DeBruin is the author of three historical novels and is working on a non-fiction-book on Loyalist espionage during the American Revolution. Many Loyalists ended up, as did DeBruin’s ancestors, settling in Canada. She was a speaker at this year’s conference on the American Revolution sponsored by the Fort Plain Museum. Download MP3July 02, 2018 Historians Episode 221-Amsterdam Recorder history columnist Dan Weaver discusses Philips Park, a recreational site in the town of Florida, N.Y., in the Mohawk Valley that closed after brutal murders in 1950. Weaver also looks at the history of an early settlement of free African Americans in the area. He operates the Bookhound bookstore in Amsterdam, N.Y. Download MP3June 25, 2018 Monday, June 25, 2018-Fort Hunter-In today’s edition of The Story Behind the Story, Bob Cudmore has information on life in then bustling Fort Hunter, New York, in the 1930s and 1940s. The story just appeared in print as Bob’s latest Focus on History column in the Daily Gazette. Fort Hunter, the hamlet at the confluence of the Schoharie Creek and Mohawk River in the town of Florida, used to have a hotel, broom shops, stores, a coal yard and a military band. In Print Cudmore: The old days in Fort Hunter- Bob Cudmore Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/06/22/cudmore-the-old-days-in-fort-hunter Download MP3 June 24, 2018 Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town this week. Mayor Sheehan talks about recent incidents of violence in Albany and what the city is doing about it. Listen each week at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5 Download MP3June 22, 2018 Friday, June 22, 2018-Historians Episode 220-Russell Shorto spoke earlier this month at the Fort Plain N.Y. Museum’s American Revolution conference. He is author of the best-seller “The Island at the Center of the World.” Shorto discusses his new book, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom.” Download MP3June 17, 2018 Troy Mayor Patrick Madden on Talk of The Town, Sunday, June 17, 2018 on Magic 590WROW Download MP3June 15, 2018 The Historians Episode 219-Andy Pragacz from the Bundy Museum of History and Art in Binghamton, New York, tells us about the museum and the Bundy family company, makers of time clocks. The firm was a predecessor of IBM. The Bundy Museum’s new community radio station, WBDY, carries episodes of The Historians Podcast Sundays at 4:30 p.m. Download MP3June 11, 2018 Monday, June 11, 2018-Coin Toss-Amsterdam sports booster and service station owner Robert “Whitie” Murray once lost out on a chance to take his hockey team to Madison Square Garden with the flip of a coin. Bob Cudmore has the Story Behind the Story. In Print:Hockey team missed out on Madison Square Garden Bob Cumore: Focus on History Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/06/08/hockey-team-missed-out-on-madison-square-garden Amsterdam gasoline station proprietor Robert “Whitie” Murray once lost out on a chance to take his hockey team to Madison Square Garden with the flip of a coin. Download MP3June 10, 2018 Bob Cudmore's guest this weekend on Talk of the Town is Albany Times Union news columnist Chris Churchill. Topics include legalizing marijuana, the aftermath of an Albany murder and a project in which high school kids are growing food for the needy. Listen each week at 6:30 on Magic 590 and 100.5-Later posted as a podcast hear on The Historians. Download MP3June 08, 2018 Friday, June 8, 2018-Historians Episode 218 –Producer Tim Welch discusses his documentary on the history of Wilton, the town that led the economic resurgence of Saratoga County New York in the last half of the 20th century. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_DjvCdoXVk&t=11s Download MP3June 04, 2018 Tim Welch, president of the Friends of Grant Cottage is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town this week to discuss the Ulysses S. Grant cottage and a new documentary on the history of the town of Wilton in Saratoga County. (Yes---the same Tim Welch who was a popular weather man at WRGB television who left CBS 6 in 1987 for a career as a college professor and public relations man. Talk of The Town broadcast each Sunday on Magic590 WROW. Now posted as a podcast on The Historians. Download MP3June 03, 2018 The Historians Episode 217-Michael Mauro DeBonis discusses his New York History Blog article on Canastota, N.Y., boxing champion Carmen Basilio. Download MP3May 27, 2018 Bob Cudmore’s Talk of the Town guest today, Sunday, May 27, 2018 is Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy. Talk of The Town broadcast each Sunday on Magic590 WROW. Download MP3May 25, 2018 Friday, May 25, 2018-Historians Episode 216- Rachel Slade is the author of “Into the Raging Sea: 33 Mariners, One Megastorm and the Sinking of El Faro.” The container ship sank and all on board died during Hurricane Joaquin in the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. Download MP3May 20, 2018 Albany County Executive Dan McCoy is Bob Cudmore’s guest this week on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town. Listen at 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and posted as a podcast on The Historians Download MP3May 18, 2018 Friday, May 18, 2018-Historians Episode 215- Michael Doyle is the author of “The Ministers’ War: John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality.” A new book on a 19th century utopian community in upstate New York. Download MP3May 13, 2018 Glenville Town Supervisor Chris Koetzle is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town, Hear the program Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and posted as a podcast on The Historians Download MP3May 11, 2018 Friday, May 11, 2018-Historians Episode 214-Excerpts are heard from the popular new documentary: Harnessing Nature-Building the Great Sacandaga Lake. One of the producers, Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts, discusses how the film came to be. Download MP3May 06, 2018 Bob Cudmore's guest on Magic 590's Talk of the Town, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple. Listen at 6:30 a.m. each Sunday on Magic 590 and 100.5. Later posted as a podcast on The Historians Download MP3May 04, 2018 Friday, May 4, 2018- Historians Episode 213-Tim Wendel is author of a family memoir about the 1960s medical team at Roswell Park in Buffalo who made great strides in treating cancer: “Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia.” Download MP3April 29, 2018 The guest this week on Bob Cudmore’s Talk of the Town is Troy Mayor Patrick Madden. Troy’s municipal golf course opened last week, the city also unveiled the first stage of a solar energy project. Hear Talk of the Town Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 plus 100.5. Now as a podcast on The Historians. Download MP3April 27, 2018 Friday, April 27, 2018--Historians Episode 212, Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum outlines the events of this year’s American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference. The fourth annual conference takes place from Thursday, June 7 through Sunday, June 10, 2018 Download MP3April 23, 2018 Bob Cudmore with The Story Behind the Story in The Daily Gazette Cudmore: Fort Johnson man fatally shot at supper time April 22, 2018 Sunday, April 22, 2018-Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss joins Bob Cudmore on Talk of the Town to discuss fire safety in Schenectady, the governor’s race and an urban farm. Listen Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5. Later posted as a podcast on The Historians. Listen to all of The Bob Cudmore interviews on Capital Region Newsroom https://soundcloud.com/capital-region-newsroom Download MP3 April 20, 2018 Episode 211, April 20, 2018, Marcia Gillis is president of the board of the Fulton County Historical Society which operates the Fulton County Museum on Kingsboro Avenue in Gloversville. A middle school history teacher, Gillis describes the collections of the museum and discusses museum programs this summer. Download MP3April 16, 2018 Monday, April 16, 2018—The Story Behind the Story, Bob Cudmore talks about his weekend column in the Daily Gazette about the 1960s Amsterdam rock band, The Daiquiris, headed by the late Norb Sherbunt, who became a prominent lawyer. In Print:The Daily Gazette-Cudmore-The Daiquiris were a 1960s Amsterdam rock band Members maintained interest in music Bob Cudmore Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/04/13/cudmore-the-daiquiris-were-a-1960s-amsterdam-rock-band Download MP3April 15, 2018 The guest on Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore today, Sunday, April 15, 2018 is Chris Churchill, news columnist for the Albany Times Union. Topics include the child victims act, the governor’s race and driverless cars. Listen for Talk of the Town every Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on Magic 590 and 100.5 and then posted on The Historians. Download MP3April 13, 2018 Episode 210, April 13, 2018, history author Jim Richmond discusses “Milton, New York: A New Town in a New Nation." Richmond and Milton town historian Kim McCartney are co-authors of the book about a Saratoga County town that includes new information on religious conflicts, slavery, mill town history and Civil War soldiers. Download MP3April 09, 2018 The guest this week on Talk of the Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic 590 plus 100.5 is historian Jim Richmond, co-author (with Kim McCartney) of “Milton, New York: A New Town in a New Nation” Download MP3April 08, 2018 Episode 209, Poetry Songs and History Songs-Words of famous poets including Edgar Allen Poe and Rudyard Kipling, are put to original music by Tom Staudle. The History Songs series portrays the life of the American settlers during the Revolution through original songs by Cosby Gibson. Download MP3April 01, 2018 On Talk of the Town, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan talks about her family’s work trip to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico. Hear the program each week on Magic 590 plus 100.5 FM. Then posted as a podcast hear on bobcudmore.com Download MP3March 30, 2018 Episode 208, March 30, 2018, Chris Leonard, the newly appointed Schenectady City Historian, talks about the many facets of the Electric City from General Electric and Charles Steinmetz, to the GE Realty Plot plus baseball and even food. Download MP3March 27, 2018 Bob Cudmore provides the Story Behind the Story for his most recent Daily Gazette column on horse trainer Hollie Hughes. Born in Amsterdam, Hughes worked for three generations of the wealthy Sanford family. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame.
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Hollie Hughes worked at Sanford Stud Farm Bob Cudmore Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/03/23/cudmore-the-hall-of-fame-horse-trainer-from-amsterdam Hollie Hughes was born in 1888 on a farm a few miles from carpet manufacturer Stephen Sanford’s Hurricana Farm, a breeding ground for thoroughbred horses on a windswept hill in the town of Amsterdam. March 26, 2018 Mayor Gary McCarthy of Schenectady is the guest on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic590 WROW and posted as a podcast on The Bob Cudmore Home Page.(Broadcast, Sunday, March 25, 2018) Download MP3March 23, 2018 Episode 207, March 23, 2018, Samuel Marquis explores the world of eighteenth century pirates and privateers in his historical novel, “Blackbeard: The Birth of America.” Download MP3March 19, 2018 Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore. Talk of The Town is broadcast each Sunday at 6:30am on Magic590 WROW. Also on 100.5FM http://www.albanymagic.com/ Download MP3March 18, 2018 Episode 206-Peter Feinman outlines a strategy to encourage New York State to do more to preserve and promote history. Peter is president of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Education and posts frequent essays on the New York History Blog. Download MP3March 11, 2018
Talk of the Town, hosted by Bob Cudmore, has moved to a new day and time. The radio interview program will be heard at 6:30 a.m. on Sundays on Magic 590 AM WROW plus 100.5 FM starting with an interview with Town of Colonie Supervisor Paula Mahan. Talk of the Town episodes will continue to be posted online. Talk of the Town features interviews with Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and mayors from Schenectady, Troy, Hoosick Falls and Saratoga Springs, plus members of Congress, School Superintendents, County Executives, Town Supervisors, Sheriffs, authors, astronomers, columnists, coaches and other interesting people. Download MP3March 09, 2018 Episode 205, Friday, March 9, 2018-Film historian Rob Edelman discusses his new book “From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors.” Rob’s wife and retired film professor Audrey Kupferberg has stories of Jewish merchants in the thriving downtown of the 1950s in her native Amsterdam, New York. Download MP3March 04, 2018 Sunday, March 4, 2018 on The Historians, Bob Cudmore tells the story of Jacob Snell. Snell was a large man in size and in political influence in New York State. Snell is the topic in this visit to the archives of Bob Cudmore's Focus on History column in the Daily Gazette. This story is also found in Bob's book, Hidden History of the Mohawk Valley. Download MP3March 03, 2018 Minutiae Episode 10 features the McDonald family in transition, from grieving the loss of Jason to adapting to new realities privately, with flashbacks in the beginning and end showing young Jason and Noemi sorting themselves out. All Minutiae episodes are recorded in Amsterdam, NY with talent from throughout the Capital region. Minutiae is a Jay Towne Production. Download MP3March 02, 2018 Episode 204, Saturday, March 3, 2018, David Rocco recounts the life of U.S. Navy officer Dixie Kiefer. Rocco and Don Keith are the authors of “The Indestructible Man: The True Story of World War II Hero Captain Dixie.” Download MP3February 25, 2018 The Historians-Episode 203-Paul Dixon discusses a children’s book series, “The Adventures of Papa Lemon’s Little Wanderers,” written by his cousin Lehman Riley and inspired by their African American grandfather. http://papalemonedu.com/ Download MP3February 23, 2018 Troy Mayor Patrick Madden on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic590 WROW Broadcast, Friday, February 23, 2018 Download MP3 February 19, 2018 Episode 202, February 16, 2018, Bob Cudmore discuss a proposal to use blighted city buildings as a resource for new construction. Plus stories about World War II and the biography of Mary Van der Veer, an Amsterdam, N.Y., artist. Download MP3February 11, 2018 Episode 201, Sunday, February 11, 2018, Peter Betz, history columnist for the Leader Herald newspaper, has stories on the local impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic, some notorious Fulton County jail escapes, and the Airship Gelatin, funded by Johnstown’s Knox family. Download MP3February 09, 2018 Bob Cudmores guest on Talk of The Town, Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin on Magic 590 WROW. http://www.albanymagic.com/ Download MP3February 04, 2018 Episode 200-Carol Kammen from Ithaca talks about her experiences as Tompkins County historian. Kammen is well-known in the New York State history community and also has done work on the history of Cornell University. Tompkins County History:http://www.tompkinscountyny.gov/historian Download MP3January 28, 2018 Episode 199-Adirondack author Larry Gooley talks about two books he was written about Dannemora Prison in Northern, New York. His most recent book, “Dannemora’s Death House: The Crimes and Fates of 41 Killers Sentenced to Die in Clinton Prison’s Electric Chair.”
January 26, 2018 Talk of The Town on The Historians. Bob Cudmore spoke with Times Union news columnist Chris Churchill. Talk of The Town is broadcast each Friday at 12:05pm on Magic590 WROW http://www.albanymagic.com/ Download MP3January 21, 2018 Episode 198-Historian Dr. Bruce Dearstyne discusses his recent New York History Blog post on concerns about the status of history in New York State.
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January 14, 2018 The Historians, Episode 197, Bob Cudmore discuss the Recordio, a consumer device that enabled people in the 1940s and 1950s to make their own 78 or 33 1/3 rpm records. Bob also talks about the history of Woodworth Lake Scout Reservation in the southern Adirondacks. Download MP3January 07, 2018 Episode 196-Bob Cudmore tells four stories from Focus on History, his Daily Gazette column—Healey’s Park in Perth, the cannon at Amsterdam’s Fairview Cemetery, the beautiful power plant on the Mohawk River and Reid Hill/Amsterdam’s favorite teacher. Healey's Park. Link to LOST LANDMARKS OF UPSTATE NEW YORK http://www.lostlandmarks.org/sundaypark.html
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December 31, 2017 Bob Cudmore and Jerry Snyder from Histroic Amsterdam Leauge on "The Historians" Episode 195, Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League discusses the group’s Amsterdam Icons Calendar for 2018 which focuses on city history in 1918.
December 17, 2017 Episode 193, Marta McDowell is author of “The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books.” McDowell chronicles the life of the popular author and the landscapes where she lived.
December 11, 2017 Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic590 WROW. This weeks guest, Chris Churchill of the Albany Times Union Download MP3December 10, 2017 Episode 192-David Brooks describes unfulfilled plans to build a canal linking the Erie Canal with Johnstown, Gloversville and the Sacandaga Valley in the Adirondacks. The story first appeared in New York History Blog. Brooks is education coordinator at a state Erie Canal history site, Schoharie Crossing in Fort Hunter. Download MP3December 03, 2017 Episode 191-Actress and singer Renae Baker takes a look at the history of well known Christmas carols. For the past 20 years she has led a large troupe of holiday carolers from the New York City theater community. I S.m.i.l.e. in New York Download MP3November 26, 2017
Episode 190-General Electric did research work on jet engines in the 1940s at the Schenectady County Airport in Glenville. Today the airport is home to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum. Volunteer Peter Russo describes the exhibits. Download MP3November 19, 2017 Episode 189-Dan Weaver says a 1768 letter to colonial leader Sir William Johnson casts doubt on the claim by some historians that Ben Franklin may have invented bifocals. Weaver is a columnist for the Amsterdam N.Y. Recorder, president of Historic Amsterdam League and a trustee of Old Fort Johnson, one of Sir William Johnson’s homes. http://www.historicamsterdam.org/
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November 18, 2017 Minutiae-Episode 9 A Jay Towne Production The story of Jason continues. Episodes 1-8 Scroll Down Download MP3November 12, 2017 Episode 188-Andrew Rowen, author of “Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold.” The book dramatizes the history of Christopher Columbus’s epic voyage and first encounters with Native Americans from a bicultural perspective.
November 05, 2017 Episode 187-Gus Kappler, M.D., recounts his service in Vietnam as described in his book, “Welcome Home from Vietnam Finally: A Vietnam Trauma Surgeon’s Memoir.”
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October 29, 2017 Episode 186-Michael Cinquanti, author of “Amsterdam NY Top Ten Lists”—from heroism to sports to traditions.
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October 22, 2017 Episode 185-Leader Herald newspaper history columnist Peter Betz reports on how American General Nicholas Herkimer died after being wounded in the Battle of Oriskany. Plus a story about a discouraged author and a tale about Sunday baseball. Download MP3October 20, 2017 Dan McCoy/Albany County Excutive on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore. Download MP3October 15, 2017 Episode 184-Annette Libeskind Berkovits worked three decades at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. She helped develop that institution’s worldwide science education programs. Her new book is called "Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator." Download MP3October 13, 2017 Friday, October 13, 2017 the guests on Talk of the Town Vietnam war veteran Dr. Gus Kappler of Amsterdam and Matt Rogowicz, producer of the WMHT-TV documentary The Wounds We Feel at Home. Listen each week on Line at 12:05PM Albany Magic 590WROW www.albanymagic.com/ Download MP3 October 08, 2017 Episode 183-Bob Cudmore discuss heavyweight champion Gene Tunney who trained for his 1920s fights in Speculator in the Adirondacks. Bob also discuss memories of Amsterdam NY provided by city native Fred Wojcicki. Download MP3September 30, 2017 Episode 182-The stories of American heavyweight champions from John L Sullivan to Mike Tyson with Paul Beston, author of “The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring.” Download MP3September 29, 2017 Town of Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle is the guest this week on Talk of The Town on Magic 590WROW. Also on 100.5FM Download MP3September 24, 2017 Episode 181-Bob Cudmore tells the story of an exclusive hunting and fishing club that existed for most of the twentieth century in western Quebec province in Canada. Amsterdam native Tom Pikul contributed anecdotes for the story. Download MP3September 17, 2017 Episode 180-C.S. Taylor discusses his historical novel, “Nadya’s War,” that describes how Russian women piloted bombers and fighter planes in World War II, most notably in the prolonged battle at Stalingrad. Download MP3September 16, 2017 Minutiae Episode 8, A Jay Towne Production. Episode 8 of Minutiae marks a transition, the beginning of several new dramatic threads which will expose the truth about several characters, and explore new themes of truth, justice, and the American Way. " Download MP3September 15, 2017 Albany City School Superintendent Kaweeda G. Adams is the guest on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic 590and100.5 FM WROW www.albanymagic.com/ Listen on line each Friday at 12:05 pm. Ms. Adams is a Louisiana native and longtime Nevada educator. 9700 students in The Albany City School District. Download MP3September 10, 2017
Episode 179-Curator Dennis Malcolm talks about the eclectic collections at the Village of Ames Museum. Ames, between Canajoharie and Sharon Springs, is one of the smallest incorporated villages in New York State. Author E.B. White’s talking mouse, Stuart Little, visited Ames and liked it very much. Download MP3September 08, 2017
Troy Mayor Patrick Madden is the guest on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic 590and100.5 FM WROW http://www.albanymagic.com/. Download MP3August 30, 2017
Episode 178-Christopher Kelly on his new book written with Stuart Laycock, “America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil" Amazon; www.amazon.com/America-Invaded-S…Christopher+Kelly Download MP3August 20, 2017
Episode 177-Amsterdam N.Y. city historian Robert von Hasseln, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, discusses the history of the Order of the Purple Heart and other military topics. He also has an update on a study of a former carpet mill power house in Amsterdam. Download MP3August 18, 2017
Bob Cudmore interviews astronomer Richard Monda about the solar that took place on Monday, August 21, 2017. Talk of The Town on Magic 590 WROW each week. http://www.albanymagic.com/ Download MP3August 14, 2017
This week on Talk of the Town on Magic 590 plus 100.5 FM, Bob Cudmore’s guest is Drew Matonak, president of Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. Download MP3August 13, 2017 Episode 176-Historian Jerry Snyder looks at the history of electric trolleys in Amsterdam, N.Y. Snyder recently spoke on the topic at a meeting of Historic Amsterdam League. Download MP3August 06, 2017 Episode 175-Baltimore sports writer John Eisenberg discusses his book “The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball’s Most Historic Record.” Eisenberg tells the story of baseball’s legendary “Iron Men,” Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the record of most consecutive games played. Download MP3August 03, 2017 Episode 173-Bob Cudmore covers the restoration project at the Green’s Corners one-room school, built in the 1800s in West Glenville, N.Y. Featured is a conversation with Ann Belfance Farina who is 100 years old and who attended the school in the 1920s. Download MP3August 02, 2017 Episode 174-Tugboat captain and historian Art Cohn discusses canal schooners, the tractor trailers of the Erie Canal. Cohn was interviewed during the summer tour of the replica canal schooner Lois McClure. Picture shows canal schooner Lois McClure docked at Amsterdam's Riverlink Park. Also on this episode, a visit to an authors’ fair at the Fulton County Museum in Gloversville. Download MP3August 01, 2017
Episode 7-Minutiae, A Jay Towne Production.Minutiae is a serial drama, based in Amsterdam, NY, and Episode 7 serves as a turning point for the series, with Jason on his deathbed, in the valley of decision, weighing his own past actions against the moral imperative he has dodged his whole life. With appearances by those he loved most, plus a special guest, Episode 7 threatens to be a worthwhile listen. ...or, whatever. Download MP3July 18, 2017 Minutiae-Episode 6 Jay Towne Production.Minutiae is a serial radio drama, set and produced in Amsterdam, NY, in a time of great change for the McDonald family, who learn how their favored son, Jason, was kidnapped, attacked, and left to die in a South Side, Amsterdam field. Their struggle to cope with the family's loss forms the backbone of the show, and leads them to understand their world in a differently similar light. Produced with the help of a wonderfully talented cast and crew, Minutiae can also be currently heard on WCSS 1490 AM on a semi-regular basis. Download MP3July 15, 2017 Episode 172-Roger Seiler has written an historical novel “Master of Alaska,” based on the story of Aleksandr Baranov, a merchant who served as governor of Russian Alaska from 1799 to 1818. Download MP3July 09, 2017 Episode 171-Bob Cudmore discuss two of Bob’s Daily Gazette columns—the story of Amsterdam, N.Y., opera singer Albert Sochin DaCosta and late 19th century folk artist Kris Vogt, a homeless man who made sketches of the homes of others. Youtube recording of Amsterdam, N.Y., native Albert Sochin DaCosta, a prominent opera singer until his untimely death in 1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662wKJQLl8k Download MP3July 05, 2017 Episode 168-Part One. American Revolution in The Mohawk Valley Conference was held Thursday, June 8-Sunday, June, 11, 2017. There was a tour of Mohawk Country Historic Sites. These sites included the following: Fort Plain/Fort Rensselaer (the Fort Plain Museum), the 1747 Nellis Tavern, Fort Klock, the Stone Arabia battlefield, the Stone Arabia Church, the Grave of Colonel John Brown (the Hero of the Battle of Stone Arabia), and Old Fort Johnson. The Historians with Bob Cudmore covered the event. July 04, 2017 Episode 169-Part Two- Coverage of the 2017 American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley Conference. Loyalist historian Gavin Watt, professor William Fowler on George Washington, history blogger Peter Feinman, author and reenactor Phil Weaver. Download MP3July 02, 2017 Episode 170- Ron Fierstein is author of “A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War. Download MP3June 16, 2017 Episode 162-Bob Cudmore provides his Top Ten List of Amsterdam, N.Y., broadcasters. Download MP3 June 14, 2017 Episode 161-Archaeologist and historian Wayne Lenig discusses Mohawk chief Joseph Brant’s 1780 raids in the Mohawk Valley. http://www.fortplainmuseum.com/index.aspx Download MP3June 11, 2017 Episode 167-Pulitzer prize winning author David Garrow discusses his critical and massive book on the formative years of the 44th President of the United States, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. June 10, 2017 Episode 163-Norm Bollen of the Fort Plain Museum previews this year’s American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley Conference. The event includes ten speakers, two bus tours of historic sites, a documentary film sceening and more. More information is at www.fortplainmuseum.com Download MP3June 04, 2017 Episode 166- Best-selling author Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Romanov tsars of Russia, the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. Montefiore has written “The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Download MP3May 29, 2017 Minutiae, Episode Five, is the latest installment in the McDonald's saga, and it brings the family closer to finding their son's killer. Jason is also seen in flashbacks and in his writing as his family and friends' lives interconnect and move toward an uncertain future. Produced in Amsterdam, NY, and performed in front of a live audience." A Jay Towne Production. All The Minutiae Episods are available here on The Historians. Scroll Down. Download MP3May 28, 2017 Episode 165- The curator at Fort Ticonderoga, Matthew Keagle, gives a fascinating account of the history of this important northern New York 18th century fort, held at various times by the French, the British and American revolutionaries. Download MP3May 25, 2017 Episode 158-Folksingers Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle perform songs from the early days of the Erie Canal. Construction of the canal began two hundred years ago this year. Download MP3May 21, 2017 Episode 164-Author Wanda Burch discusses her book, “The Home Voices Speak Louder than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs.” (McFarland Publishing, Summer 2017) Singer-songwriter John Kenosian has set some of these letters and memoirs to music. Kenosian and Burch are performing a concert series in New York’s Montgomery County called “Home Voices: The American Civil War Experience through Words and Music. Download MP3May 06, 2017 Episode 159-Peter Betz has stories about the Gloversville soda battle of 1933, Prohibition and the 1949 visit of the Freedom Train, Peter writes a biweekly history column for the Leader Herald newspaper in Gloversville. Download MP3May 02, 2017 Episode 4, Minutiae, The Jay Towne Production. Minutiae is a serial radio drama based in Amsterdam, NY. The saga deals with a family grieving for a lost son, Jason, a possible murder victim, by keeping him alive in their memories using flashbacks and short fiction from Jason’s diary. By doing so they memorialize him and serve the story as moral fable. Scroll down to catch up with Episodes 1-3. www.facebook.com/Minutiaedrama/ Download MP3April 30, 2017 Episode 160-Dennis Webster looks back at a precedent setting murder case in his new book, “Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student.” Download MP3April 18, 2017
Bob Cudmore on line. Links to Mohawk Valley Web and You Tube Video. Bob Cudmore's Recent Focus on History Columns in The Daily Gazette and past programs on You Tube. Click the links. http://mohawkvalleyweb.com/montgomery/focusonhistory.php https://youtube.com/watch?v=HmNVbaMt3Wc https://youtube.com/watch?v=N50rdqgMXdA https://youtube.com/watch?v=82NVFqOh-LY The Historians on the program schedule at WMHT Public Radio in Albany. http://www.wmht.org/radio/rise/historians/ Download MP3April 17, 2017 Episode 157-Former CIA historian Nicholas Reynolds discusses author Ernest Hemingway’s involvement with American and Soviet spy agencies in the 1940s. Reynolds is author of “Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy. Download MP3April 16, 2017 The Historians with Bob Cudmore is now featured on Apple ITunes and GooglePlay. Search The Historians or Eastline Studio. Episode 127-Bob Cudmore with two stories: how a single mother made a living boarding soldiers who were guarding the New York Barge Canal in World War I and how a German native became an American war hero in World War II. Download MP3April 15, 2017 Episode 153-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. Download MP3April 09, 2017 Episode 155-Christina Baker Kline discusses her historical novel “A Piece of the World.” The book deals with artist Andrew Wyeth and Christina Olson, pictured in his provocative 1948 painting, “Christina’s World.” Kline was author of the best-selling historical novel, “Orphan Train.” Download MP3April 08, 2017 Episode 149-History teacher Doug Kaufman discusses the 1911 Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City. Steve Jankowski of Broadalbin, N.Y., tells how he escaped from the scene of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. They spoke at an event sponsored by Amsterdam (N.Y.) Reads on the historical novel “A Fall of Marigolds” by Susan Meissner. Download MP3April 01, 2017 Minutiae-Episode two continues the saga of the McDonald family, recovering from their son Jason’s untimely death. An episodic moral fable, utilizing the techniques of flashbacks, memories, and readings of short fiction by Jason, Minutiae moves toward the mystery of his death, and toward the family’s understanding of each other. Produced by Jay Towne in Amsterdam, New York. A new episode of Minutiae is broadcast each month on WCSS Radio in Amsterdam 1490AM and on line. http://wcss1490.com/ Download MP3April 01, 2017 Minutiae Episode three continues the saga of the McDonald family, recovering from their son Jason’s untimely death. An episodic moral fable, utilizing the techniques of flashbacks, memories, and readings of short fiction by Jason, Minutiae moves toward the mystery of his death, and toward the family’s understanding of each other. Also on Soundcloud/EastlineStudio https://soundcloud.com/obudmore Download MP3March 31, 2017 Minutiae-Episode 1-Minutiae is the saga of one family in Amsterdam, New York, who face a new reality after the death of their gifted only son, Jason. The story revolves around the choices the family makes in dealing with their loss and the fallout in their communities. An episodic moral fable created by Jay Towne. A new episode of Minutiae is broadcast each month on WCSS Radio in Amsterdam 1490AM and on line. http://wcss1490.com/ Download MP3March 29, 2017
Episode 156-Sam Maggs discusses her book on women who made often unheralded contributions, “Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History.” Download MP3March 27, 2017 Episode 152-Reverend Walter Smith of northern New York discusses his lifelong fascination with railroads. Reverend Smith writes the Reminiscing column in the Bulletin of the Bridge Line Historical Society.All The Historians Podcast are on ITunes and GooglePlay. Download MP3March 22, 2017 From the Archives-Episode 143, December 23, 2016-Gloversville Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz with stories about animals making history, an attempted bombing of a Fulton County deputy sheriff’s car and a nostalgic look back at the introduction of television. March 18, 2017 Episode 154-Lynn Herzig describes life in a hamlet on New York’s Tug Hill Plateau over fifty years ago. Herzig is author of “Where’d you go?” “Out!” “What’d you do?” “Nothing!”: Unique memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, N.Y. during the 1950s. “Spike” grew up in the Adirondacks, graduated from Central City Business Institute, hired on as a part-time tour escort for High Adventure Tours in Syracuse and two years later became President of the company. Download MP3March 15, 2017 From the Archives, Episode 30. Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson, author of “The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789" (Harper Collins-William Morrow, 2014) Download MP3March 11, 2017 March 08, 2017 March 04, 2017 
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February 26, 2017 February 25, 2017 February 19, 2017 Episode 151-Amsterdam (N.Y) Recorder history columnist Dan Weaver describes actress: Debbie Reynolds’s connection to Amsterdam. Weaver also talks about the Cabbage Patch doll and Coleco and the story of Derby, the blind proprietor of a newsstand in the city post office.***Night lunch wagons were popular a century ago. Bob Cudmore story on Mohawk Valley Web-http://mohawkvalleyweb.com/index.php?id=809 Download MP3February 18, 2017 February 15, 2017 February 12, 2017 February 11, 2017 February 08, 2017 The Historians Podcast guest is Don Papson of Plattsburgh, one of the founders of the North Star Underground Railroad Museum. Papson and Tom Colarco are co-authors of "Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives." http://northcountryundergroundrailroad.com/ Download MP3February 04, 2017 February 01, 2017 January 28, 2017 Episode 148-Mary Lou Reid takes a look at life in the convent fifty years ago when she was a novice in the order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Reid, who left the religious order for a career in media and financial planning, discusses this historical topic in the context of her self-help program, The Convent Diet.http://conventdiet.com/ Download MP3January 25, 2017 January 22, 2017 Episode 147-Alice Flynn discusses her book about the World War II Battle of the Bulge, “The Heroes of Hosingen.” Flynn’s father fought in the battle and she has helped descendants of other Battle of the Bulge veterans learn more about what happened to their loved ones.http://www.heroesofhosingen.com/ Also on ITunes Download MP3January 21, 2017 January 18, 2017 January 17, 2017 January 14, 2017 January 12, 2017 Episode 145-Jerry Snyder talks about the many mansions built in the industrial heyday in Amsterdam, N.Y., the subject of this year’s Amsterdam Icons Calendar, produced by Historic Amsterdam League.*** Looking for Mohawk Valley News. 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