Tomorrow, Friday March 1, 2019
Episode 255
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Friday, March 1-Episode 255-Frankie Y. Bailey, a criminal justice professor at the University at Albany, discusses issues in the history of crime and her own career as a criminal mystery writer.
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Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. More on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XRFA654/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Frankie+Bailey&qid=1551343561&s=gateway&sr=8-7
Frankie Y. Bailey, PhD is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice University at Albany (SUNY). She studies crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture and material culture. She is the author of five mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Lizzie Stuart and two police procedurals novels featuring Albany police detective Hannah Stuart.
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Thursday, February 28, 2019-Celebrating Black History Month-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-NFL quarterback Russell Wilson and his ancestors.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s grandfather was a high school basketball star in Amsterdam. Harrison Wilson Jr. was the only African American on the championship basketball team during the 1942-43 season.
Wilson, the center, was frequently the top scorer on the team coached by high school teacher Ed Cionek. Cionek described Wilson, number thirteen, as the “key” player. Amsterdam basketball players that year also included defensive ace Walt Frisch, Ernie DiBartolomeo (another top scorer), Alfred Derenske, Emory Sheridan, Peter LaBate (number ten) and Costa Lazarou.
Amsterdam High beat St. Mary’s Institute for the city championship in 1942. Wilson and DiBartolomeo each had 13 points when Amsterdam defeated Gloversville 49 to 30 for the Eastern High School League title in 1943.
Wilson told ESPN that he played every sport he could in high school, even speed skating. After graduation, he entered the U.S. Navy and was top man in his class at basic training.
When World War II ended, Wilson became a student and basketball star at Kentucky State, and then basketball coach at Jackson State. He earned a doctorate at Indiana University and served as president of Norfolk State University, a historically black institution in Virginia, from 1975 to 1997.
One of Harrison, Jr.’s six children, the late Harrison Wilson III, was a Dartmouth graduate and attorney who almost made it to professional football with the San Diego Chargers. Harrison III died from complications from diabetes in 2010. Quarterback Russell Wilson is the son of Harrison Wilson III and grandson of Harrison, Jr.
WILSONS IN AMSTERDAM
Harrison, Jr. was the son of Harrison Wilson, Sr., who was born in Falmouth, Kentucky in 1888, relocating to Amsterdam in 1910. Harrison, Sr.’s father had been a slave, freed after the Civil War.
Wilson and his wife Marguerite raised eight children and stressed the importance of education. Marguerite’s grandmother had taught at a one room school in Kentucky. In Amsterdam the Wilson family lived at locations including West Main, Cedar and Pine Streets.
Harrison, Jr. told an interviewer his first jobs were shining shoes and delivering newspapers when he was seven years old.
Harrison, Sr. worked as a plasterer, although racial discrimination kept him out of the union. He later became a maintenance man for prominent Amsterdam builder and landlord Thomas McGibbon.
During Harrison, Jr.’s senior year in high school, his father was praised for heroism. Harrison, Sr. helped save two young female pin setters working at a bowling alley in a downtown building his employer owned, the McGibbon Block, which caught fire April 6, 1943.
McGibbon died later that year. The Wilsons were then able to make their livelihood by operating a private parking lot in downtown Amsterdam on land behind East Main Street that had been owned by McGibbon.
All the children of Harrison, Sr. and Marguerite Wilson pursued substantial careers in education, health care, industry and sports.
SAM PEPE’S MEMORIES
The Wilson children became friends with retired restaurateur Sam Pepe Jr. when both families lived on West Main Street. Pepe recalled going to YMCA summer camp with Harrison, Jr. and his brother Willis.
Pepe said Harrison, Jr. frequently returned to Amsterdam to visit his parents and provided help to young African Americans who wanted to pursue higher education. Harrison Jr. was guest speaker at an Amsterdam High graduation ceremony in the 1990s.
Pepe said he could always find Harrison Jr. in a crowd because of his distinctive walk and a small gray spot on the back of his head. Pepe recalled spotting him in a large gathering attending a sporting event being broadcast on ABC Wide World of Sports television.
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The Lavish Hollywood Musical Motion Picture Series at the Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church Street continues with LULLABY OF BROADWAY. Doris Day and Gene Nelson are magical and the songs and dance come to life--Gene Nelson does a great Fred Astaire! See LULLABY OF BROADWAY, at the Amsterdam Library Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 2pm.
This Weekend on The Historians
Saturday, March 2, 2019-Today’s Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-The late Bob Going’s books about Amsterdam and World War II.
Sunday, March 3, 2019- From the Archives-Celebrating Women’s History Month- July 26, 2015 - Barbara Blaisdell of Rochester, N.Y., portrays Susan B. Antony and explores Anthony’s opinions on women’s rights, slavery, temperance and more.
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