Tomorrow, Friday, May 10, 2019-Episode 265-Leader Herald newspaper history columnist Peter Betz has stories about a murderer who wanted to hang and a salesman who stole the goods he was supposed to sell.
Bob Cudmore will speak to the Charleston Historical Society at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2019 at the old Baptist Church, 390 Polin Road in Charleston, N.Y., just off Route 30A. Among Bob’s stories will be an account of a recent visit to Amsterdam N.Y. by a documentary filmmaker from the Czech Republic. The program is free and open to the public.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Thursday, May 9, 2019-Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61.
Tonight Showers likely, mainly after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 48.
Friday Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. High near 66.
Thursday, May 9, 2019-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-Memories of Amsterdam from far away-11-17-07
Two Amsterdam natives have questions about the city’s past—one regarding a traveling show and the other about Civil Defense.
Ohio resident Richard Ellers, a 1945 graduate of Amsterdam High School, asks if anyone remembers a traveling show that came to Amsterdam in the early 1940s.
Ellers said a merchants group contracted with a traveling showman, possibly named Earl Regner, who had written a show called “Headin’ Hollywood.” Ellers wonders if the show was the basis for the television comedy “The Beverly Hillbillies.” “Headin’ Hollywood” was about a family in the Carolinas who strike oil on their farm and go west.
The show was staged at Roosevelt Junior High with a large local cast. “Regner owned all the props, stage sets and costumes,” Ellers wrote. “I recall hearing from adults grousing afterwards that he charged the group for shipping his stuff both into and out of Amsterdam.”
Ellers even remembers most of the words of the show's theme song: “Out of the hills of the Southland, from Carolina so dear, we're headin' out for old Hollywood. California air, roses everywhere. We will be making the movies, doin’ what movies stars do. Come on with us, we'll all have some fun, ‘cause were Headin' Hollywood."
CIVIL DEFENSE
Shawn Duffy, who now lives near St. Louis, Missouri, remembers visiting his Aunt Loretta Mullarkey Curran during the Cold War era in a small building north of the driveway at Amsterdam City Hall on Church Street.
Duffy wrote, “She was a Civil Defense worker I assumed she was concentrating on a radar screen, searching for Russian planes that had somehow escaped detection by all the other east coast radars and were attempting to make it to Amsterdam to bomb and cripple the critical U.S. carpet industry.
“At that time, the landscaping at City Hall was outstanding, with three levels of gardens and hedge bordered walkways, which I thought of as like the maze in "The Shining," although that was not written yet. There were outbuildings, stonewalls, iron fences and gates. I always had a great time visiting. But I never did see that radar screen.”
CENTURY CLUB
The Century Club of Amsterdam, now preparing its annual Festival of Trees, was founded over a century ago in 1895 by 25 women.
The women had been attending a Shakespeare and Browning study class. Each woman invited three of her friends to join, at first limiting the club to 100 members, hence the name.
According to a 50th anniversary history by Mrs. Schuyler Voorhees, the founding women wanted to share their love for “books and study in a day when women had not yet been received into full intellectual equality with men.”
For almost 40 years, Century Club programs were held at various Amsterdam buildings—the Board of Trade, the library and Second Presbyterian Church. In 1934, the current clubhouse was built at 130 Guy Park Avenue. The building was bought and paid for by the women of the club who were able to burn the mortgage on the structure in 1946.
The clubhouse has been the scene for concerts, speeches, dances, plays, blood drives, elections and wedding receptions.
Well into the 1950s, famous people such as poets Carl Sandburg and Robert Tristram Coffin, actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and Senator Estes Kefauver have spoken at the club.
Club members today continue to perform charitable work, for example supporting a program of reconstructive surgery for children with facial deformities. In years past, the women of the club helped create the Sassafras bird sanctuary and helped sponsor city parks.
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Saturday, May 11, 2019-Today’s Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Two music men from the Amsterdam area-high school bandleader Gerald Barnell and Stephen Lopuch of The Pals of the Saddle.
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