Sunday, December 15, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss.

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.

Sunday, December 8, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy.

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.”

Episode 294-Marta McDowell discusses her book about a 19^th century American poet, “Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life.”  McDowell was gardener-in-residence at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, last year.

Sunday, November 24, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Amsterdam Mayor-elect Mike Cinquanti.

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.”

Sunday, November 17, 2019-Clifton Park town supervisor Phil Barrett is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town.

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.

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/

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.

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. 

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

Sunday, October 27, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sunday, October 6, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Mike Saccocio of the Schenectady City Mission.

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.

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.  

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

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.”