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 

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.”

Troy Mayor Patrick Madden on Talk of The Town, Sunday, June 17, 2018 on Magic 590WROW

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Historians Episode 217-Michael Mauro DeBonis discusses his New York History Blog article on Canastota, N.Y., boxing champion Carmen Basilio.

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. 

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.

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

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 19^th century utopian community in upstate New York. 

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

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. 

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

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.” 

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.

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

Bob Cudmore with The Story Behind the Story in The Daily Gazette

Cudmore: Fort Johnson man fatally shot at supper time
Girlfriend acquitted of murder
Bob Cudmore Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/04/20/cudmore-fort-johnson-man-fatally-shot-at-supper-time

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.

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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.

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

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.