"Bob is On The Road this Weekend" 390 Polin Road in Charleston
Friday, May 17, 2019-Episode 266-Bob Cudmore has stories from the Mohawk Valley: Amsterdam’s downtown movie theaters, a syndicated journalist from Fonda and a Civil War surgeon who was born in Root, N.Y.
Audio Podcast is Thirty Minutes
Video Podcast at the Bottom of The Page
Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Friday, May 17, 2019-Showers likely, mainly before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Sunday A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
After moving to a new location last year, Spring Fling is shifting it’s carnival-like atmosphere back to Amsterdam’s downtown later this week.
Amsterdam’s Spring Fling Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 2019 centered around Main Street in downtown. The City of Amsterdam and its Tourism, Marketing & Recreation Department are presenting the annual event, which The Sentinel of Amsterdam has sponsored. Around 140 vendors are expected to be at the event alongside a variety of free entertainment, including amusement rides, bounce houses, arts and crafts activities, and live music By JOHN PURCELL RecorderNews https://www.recordernews.com/news/local-news/153422
Bob Cudmore will speak to the Charleston Historical Society at 2 p.m. this 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.
Andrea Culkova discussing Amsterdam’s past with Elwood Museum Director Ann Peconie
Last week filmmaker Andrea Culkova from Prague in the Czech Republic spent a day filming remnants of Amsterdam, N.Y.’s carpet industry. Culkova is working on a documentary for HBO/Europe called The Magic Carpet. She is chronicling the history of the Ginskey company, a rug making firm located in the Czech Republic but operated by Germans. Through an online version of one of my Daily Gazette columns, Culkova concluded both Ginskey and Amsterdam’s Mohawk Carpet produced similar carpet versions of Louis Rigal’s mosaic Wheel of Life for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. There will be more on this story Saturday in my Daily Gazette Focus on History column.
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The photos were taken May 5 in Amsterdam showing: the mosaic version of Wheel of Life on the pedestrian bridge, Culkova shooting video on the bridge, Historic Amsterdam League co-founder Jerry Snyder and Amsterdam’s John Daly at the Elwood Museum, Culkova discussing Amsterdam’s past with Elwood Museum Director Ann Peconie and shots of the carpet display at the Elwood.
Saturday, May 18, 2019-Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Czech filmmaker Andrea Culkova is working on a film about a carpet manufacturer in the Czech Republic. Culkova’s research took her to Amsterdam, N.Y., this month to record interviews regarding the years when Amsterdam was the Carpet City.
Sunday, May 19, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of “Little Sister,” the story of her childhood in a Roman Catholic commune.
Jason Subik Show Jason Subik Mid-Morning Program WCSS Radio Amsterdam 106.9FM and 1490AM Thursday, May 16, 2019 The Mid-Morning Show with Jason Subik on WCSS 1490 AM 106.9 FM. Phone #518-843-2500. Special thanks to my guests Greater Amsterdam School Board candidates JoMarie DiTata and Curtis Peninger. Next Live Facebook Feed, Monday, May 20, 2019 Amsterdam News and Talk https://www.facebook.com/jason.subik
“Songs along the Mohawk” is a cabaret-style entertainment in which singer Byron Nilsson and pianist Malcolm Kogut share songs and stories from and about the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, including Erie Canal songs, vaudeville numbers, temperance ditties, and even some of those Victorian-era ballads in which people dropped dead for no apparent reason. They’ll also look at Mark Twain’s fraught relationship with George W. Elliott, author of “Bonnie Eloise,” which began when Twain performed in Fort Plain in 1868. RecorderNews https://www.recordernews.com/news/local-news/153637
The Annual American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference has been set for June 6-9, 2019. This is the fifth year the Fort Plain Museum has held the conference. http://www.fortplainmuseum.com/
The Board of Trustees of Historic Cherry Hill in Albany N.Y. has announced the appointment of Deborah Emmons-Andarawis as Director of Historic Cherry Hill (HCH). She has been serving as Acting Director since December 2017. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/05/historic-cherry-hill-names-new-director/
Deborah Emmons-Andarawis will be Bob Cudmores Guest in June
Friday, June 14, 2019-Episode 270-Deborah Emmons-Andarawis is executive director at Historic Cherry Hill, an 18th century house museum on South Pearl Street in Albany New York. Hear about the lives of the former residents and the gripping tale of a murder at Cherry Hill in the 1800s.
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