Bob Cudmore’s Historians Podcast features coverage of the first annual American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley Conference.
Recorded this past spring.
The Historians Podcast may be downloaded at www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians and at www.soundcloud.com search for Eastline Studio. The show also airs Mondays at 11:30 a.m. and Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. on RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind and print disabled in Albany.
The half hour episode features interviews with conference participants Jim Kirby Martin, co-author of “Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution; Jack Kelly, author of “Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence;” and Don Hagist, author of “The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs.”
Also on the program will be conference attendees Kyle Jenks of “Drums Along the Mohawk Outdoor Drama,” retired Montgomery County Historian Jacqueline Murphy and John Warren, editor of the New York History Blog.
Brian Mack of Fort Plain Museum will be heard as well. Mack, Norm Bollen and other members of the Fort Plain Museum organized the first annual conference which included a full day of history talks held at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie and a bus tour of Revolutionary era historic sites in western Montgomery County. More than 100 people attended.
Historic sites in western Montgomery County include Fort Plain Museum, Nellis Tavern, Fort Klock, Isaac Paris House, Van Alstyne Homestead, Stone Arabia Church, Palatine Church and the Margaret Reaney Library in St. Johnsville, all within minutes of Thruway Exit 29 in Canajoharie.