Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590 WROW. Also on 100.5FM

Episode 108-Bob Cudmore and Dave Greene discuss two of Bob’s recent Daily Gazette columns. One is on Monsignor William Browne, who founded Amsterdam’s St. Mary’s Hospital and the other is a history of the Amsterdam Free Library.

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Talk of The Town.

Episode 107-David Kinney, co-author of “The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich.”

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590 WROW.

Episode 106-Brien Bouyea, the author of Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing: The Remarkable Life of John Morrissey. Brien is communications officer of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs.

Episode 105-Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz explores various theories on the origin of the name of the Montgomery County hamlet of Tribes Hill. He also recounts horse runaway stories from Fulton County.

Episode 104-Bob Cudmore and Dave Greene discuss the history of Bowler’s Brewery in Amsterdam, a horrific trolley accident in Gloversville in 1902 and a Vail Mills native credited with inventing email.

Each week on Magic590WROW, Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. Also on: 100.5FM

Episode 103-Two young historians, town of Palatine historian Eddie Watt and graduate student Abby Cretser of Ephratah, discuss their work. Also on Soundcloud.com/EastlineStudio

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan each week on Magic590WROW and 100.5FM. Also on:

Episode 102- Neil Yetwin, a history teacher, is author of a book on a War of 1812 hero who became the first Jewish New York State Assemblyman, “To My Son: The Life and War Remembrances of Captain Mordecai Myers.” Also on Soundcloud.com/Eastline Studio

Each week on Magic590WROW, Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. Also on Soundcloud.com/EastlineStudio

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590WROW and 100.5FM

Episode 100-Phillip Bowler has tales of Bowler’s Brewery in Amsterdam and his own world travels. Phillip Bowler writes, "I am on a four month road tour from Burlington, Vt., Knoxville, I-40 west to Las Vegas, Monterey, Long Beach, CA., and I am now generally headed east along I-10 to Sebring, Florida. I will be back in Burlington in late April/early May. I have traveled about 5700 miles so far. I do a quasi-daily travelogue on my adventures."

Episode 99-David Fiske is author of “Solomon Northup’s Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War.”

Each week Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. On Magic590WROW and 100.5FM

Episode 98-Timothy Starr has written 15 books on Saratoga County and Capital District history. He focuses on the history of the town of Milton in this episode.

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehen on Magic590WROW Also on 100.5FM

Episode 97-Bob Cudmore explores a sensational murder case that took place in 1895 in Amsterdam. Another topic: research done on a Walt Disney subsidiary that did cartoon TV ads for Mohawk Carpets in the early 1950s.

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehen. Each week on Magic590WROW and now on 100.5 FM

Episode 96-Danielle Sanzone of WMHT explains how the Capital District PBS station is sharing information on local people and their ancestry on social media in conjunction with the national program “Finding Your Roots.”

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Talk of The Town. Magic590WROW and 100.5FM.

Episode 95-Aja Raden on The Historians with Bob Cudmore Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World. As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious. What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire. Also on: