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.

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. 

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.

Troy Mayor Patrick Madden on Talk of The Town with Bob Cudmore. Broadcast each Sunday on Magic590 WROW

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.

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.”

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.

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. 

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/

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.

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. 

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.

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

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. 

Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple on Magic590 WROW.

Also on 100.5FM

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.

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. 

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

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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.”