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.

Bob Cudmores guest on Talk of The Town, Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin on Magic 590 WROW. http://www.albanymagic.com/

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

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/

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.

Episode 194-Charley Valera, My Father's War

Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore on Magic590 WROW.

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This weeks guest, Chris Churchill of the Albany Times Union

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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.

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

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.

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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. 

Dan McCoy/Albany County Excutive on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore.

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."

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/