Sunday, June 16, 2019- Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Daily Gazette news columnist Sara Foss.

Friday, June 14, 2019-Episode 270-Deborah Emmons-Andarawis is executive director at Historic Cherry Hill, an 18^th 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.

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. 

Sunday, June 2, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Capital District Congressman Paul Tonko.

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.  

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.