Bob Cudmore will be master of ceremonies at the first annual George Washington's Birthday Symposium today,Saturday, February 16, 2019 from 8:15 AM to 3:30 PM at Fulton-Montgomery Community College (location at college to be determined). The event is presented by the Fort Plain Museum. $35 for advance registration, $40 at the door and $20 student rate. Lunch and coffee/water breaks included. For more information visit www.fortplainmuseum.com
Presenting on the Father of our Country are the following Historians/Authors:George Washington and the Mohawk Frontier - Norman J. Bollen Setting the Example: George Washington's Military Leadership - Edward G. Lengel George & Martha - Bruce Chadwick George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy - William M. Fowler, Jr. George Washington's Ten Crucial Days: Trenton and Princeton - William "Larry" Kidder
Good Weather to Get to The Show
A slight chance of snow showers before 9am. Partly sunny, with a high near 29.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 11.
Sunday Increasing clouds, with a high near 27.
Former Amsterdam City Court judge recalled
Robert Going loved Amsterdam and its history
Bill Buell Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/02/16/former-amsterdam-city-court-judge-recalled
Saturday, February 16-Today’s Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Famed Polish pianist and politician Ignacy Paderewski performed in Amsterdam in 1933 and raised money to support the Sisters of the Resurrection Children’s Home.
Ignacy Paderewski, a world famous pianist and composer who served as the first prime minister of Poland in 1919, performed at Amsterdam’s former junior high school on Guy Park Avenue on March 26, 1933.
According to historian Hugh Donlon, Paderewski was invited to Amsterdam by Reverend Anton Gorski, pastor of St. Stanislaus Church, one of the city’s predominantly Polish-American parishes.
Paderewski and Gorski were distant relatives by marriage. Donlon said “(Paderewski) came more to show his appreciation of the intense loyalty of Amsterdam Poles to their native land than to any other purpose.”
Historian Jackie Murphy wrote in an article for Historic Amsterdam League that the concert was a benefit for the Sisters of the Resurrection.
The Sisters opened a nursery on Park Street for the children of women working in the city’s mills in 1926. The nursery closed the next year and the Sisters opened a Children’s Home or orphanage on Brookside Avenue.
Murphy wrote, “The ongoing increase in the need for their services soon overtaxed the Brookside Avenue facility and in 1932 the Home relocated to the former Gardiner Blood home at 118 Market Street on the southwest corner of Market and Prospect.”
Paderewski’s benefit performance raised nearly $2000 and enabled the Sisters to pay off their bank debt.
Donlon recalled attending the 1933 concert in a column written after Paderewski’s death on June 29th, 1941, “Those of us who were fortunate enough to get into the auditorium — and it was crowded — are now even more privileged to claim with pride, ‘I heard him.’”
Among the first to greet the pianist was Division Street physician Dr. Julius Schiller who had heard Paderewski when he played for the first time in America with the Chicago Symphony in 1891.
Donlon wrote that in Amsterdam Paderewski played as though he was among “a small group of personal friends.”
The program began with a Bach fugue, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and a sonata by Schumann.
Donlon, who had spent many years as a church organist, wrote, “Before the evening was over he had wandered far from that musical fare. In response to wild enthusiasm he went from one Chopin composition to another, and finished with the brilliant Military Polonaise that left his spellbound audience wishing the joys of the evening might never end.
“He was an old man then, Paderewski was. The passing years, with their heartaches, were taking their toll, and there were times when he played as one tired, very, very tired. But then he would rouse himself and show flashes of his old-time technical mastery and poetic fire, his weariness concealed beneath flawless stage posture.
“Those who were there need no jogging of the memory. Those who were not there-well, they missed Amsterdam at its musical best.”
The Sisters of the Resurrection Children’s Home on Market Street, made possible by Paderewski’s concert, filled a need.
Murphy wrote, “At times there were as many as 12 to 16 infants no more than nine days old being cared for at the home. And not only did the home care for children, but from time to time, it also helped others in need; a student from Poland who was unable to return to his home because of the world situation spent seven years under the care of the Sisters who made it possible for him to complete his medical studies, another individual was helped after he had escaped from a concentration camp in Spain.
“The Children’s Home was closed by the diocese in 1960 and the Sister’s ministry relocated to Massachusetts. The building was demolished in 1966 for Amsterdam’s Route 30 South arterial.”
Historians Podcast, Episode 253-Bob Cudmore has stories from local history he had planned to share with the Broadalbin-Kennyetto Historical Society. The Broadalbin talk was cancelled because of a power outage.
The Old Stone Fort Museum Complex winter lecture series is set to begin today, Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 1 pm, with a lecture on the Siberian Husky and its role in history. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/02/sled-dog-history-lecture-at-fort-plain-museum/
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Area residents and visitors from across the region are set to descend upon the Great Sacandaga Lake and surrounding communities for the annual Walleye Challenge ice fishing derby set to be held today, Saturday, February 16, 2019
By DUSTEN RADER The Recorder https://www.recordernews.com/news/local-news/146096
Listen on The Radio or On Line this morning, Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 8:40 for The Historians Podcast WCSS Radio Amsterdam 106.9FM and 1490AM http://www.wcss1490.com/
Bob Cudmore’s guest this weekend on Talk of the Town is Albany County Executive Dan McCoy. Topics include the opioid crisis, relocation of the county election board and an honor bestowed on Vietnam War hero Charles Chandler. Listen at 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Magic 590 plus 100.5 and two signals in the North Country: 96.9 and 1410.
Ambulance alliance splinters over hospital transfer calls
Vital supply of cash is on the line
Jason Subik Daily Gazette https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/02/15/ambulance-alliance-splinters-over-hospital-transfer-calls
The Jason Subik Mid-Morning Show
WCSS Radio 106.9FM and 1490AM
Thursday, February 14, 2019
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The Lavish Hollywood Musical Motion Picture series at the Amsterdam Free and Public Library at 28 Church Street resumes with the Broadway Musical of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's SHOWBOAT, next Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 2pm. See this rich production of SHOWBOAT part of its Lavish Hollywood Musical Film Series. AMSTERDAM — The Walter Elwood Nature Club’s next meeting has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, February 21, 2019 at the Horace J. Inman Senior Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., use the rear entrance. Dancing Heacock, proponent of the Tribes Hill Heritage Center, will discuss Native American people, and how they dealt with the severe winter weather. The program is free and open to the public. Call Ahead
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