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Episode 269-Czech filmmaker Andrea Culkova discusses her current project, The Magic Carpet. The documentary is about a carpet manufacturer in the Czech Republic but Culkova’s research took her to Amsterdam, N.Y., for a video shoot and interviews regarding the years when Amsterdam was the Carpet City.
Landed at Ellis Hospital June 4.
My portable heart monitor tracked 6 or 7 episodes of rapid heartbeat (ventricular tachycardia) over the weekend of June 1 and 2. Tuesday, June 4, about 5 a.m. my implanted defibrillator shocked me. Called 911 and had three more shocks from my device before getting to Ellis in Schenectady.
ER was extremely busy but we were treated very competently. The ER crew gave me one of their regular defib shocks.
Enter electrical whiz and cardiologist Dr. Steven Giovannone. Almost four years ago he had done an ablation (which I think means cauterization) of part of my heart. The idea is to get rid of the part of the heart that wants to beat too fast and erratically. Dr. G and his team did another ventricular ablation on me, guiding a device into the arteries and up to my heart.
Felt much better and the heart rates became more stable. Audrey and daughter Kathleen and her husband Mie were with me at Ellis through the day. Spent two night in intensive care and came home Thursday afternoon. June 6, and very happy to be here.
Thanks to all the people who helped me including Thomas Corners volunteers, a Scotia EMT, Mohawk Ambulanc the hard working Ellis emergency crew (since they were too busy to get food, my son-in-law Mike bought them all pizza!), Dr. G and his team, the staff in intensive care. My last RN when I was discharged was a very efficient compassionate nurse named Preetie.
Thanks for all the Facebook and email messages of support. Bob Cudmore Saturday, June 8, 2019-Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-The Charleston, N.Y., Historical Society meets in a former church that was built when George Washington was President.
Radio and television executive Edythe Meserand left New York City in 1952 and moved with her companion and fellow media professional Jane Barton to Windy Hill, a Christmas tree farm on Esperance Road in the town of Charleston.
Meserand started an ad agency and became well known to Capital District broadcasters such as Boom Boom Brannigan, Betty George and Lloyd Smith. Meserand later embarked on another project: historic preservation.
In the 1970s Meserand became town historian and in 1978 founded the Charleston Historical Society.
The historical society’s home is Charleston’s former First Baptist Church on Polin Road, built in 1793, when George Washington was President. It was renovated in the 1850s.
The ancestors of Ila Grandy Phillips were early members of the church. Phillips wrote in a college paper in 1943, “The white church in the clearing with its sheds for the horses, its old-fashioned box stove and kerosene lights maintained a steady place in the community.”
Phillips added that this Baptist church became the Mother Church of later institutions in Rural Grove, Four Corners, Randall, Johnstown and Amsterdam.
Dwindling membership starting in the 1940s led to the church’s closing in 1955. The abandoned building was severely damaged over the decades by vandals. Thieves stole the church bell and a pulpit chair.
The Charleston Historical Society bought the building from the American Baptist Convention for $1,500 in 1978. Volunteers began the renovation.
In a history of the restoration Meserand wrote that in 1978 the church was in sad shape, “The pulpit was shattered and the debris on the floor was three feet high.”
Then county historian Anita Smith advised Meserand that restoration might be impossible. But Meserand said the building itself “seemed to smile and say ‘thank you’ for every shovelful of nastiness we took out.” She said it was “a church that refused to die.”
The restoration united the local community. Bricks were needed to repair the chimney. Trustee Anna Caird heard from a dairy in Fultonville that had just lost one of its brick buildings to a fire. The Charleston historical volunteers picked up the bricks at no cost, wrote Meserand, “except our own physical effort, sooty hands and clothes, and tired backs.”
The original pastor of the church in 1793 was Reverend Elijah Herrick. In 1978 his descendant, Herold Herrick of Cranford, New Jersey, came to Charleston and expressed his gratitude to the volunteers.
It took 2,100 hours of work done primarily by ten volunteers to make the church ready for a public dedication in June 1983 as the building became the home of the Charleston Historical Society. Two hundred attended.
WRGB/WGY reporter Jack Aernecke, master of ceremonies, said according to a newspaper account, "At last we seem to be entering an age of progress with thoughtful renovation instead of the recent age of tearing down and building something new." Then an Assemblyman, Paul Tonko said, "You are making history by preserving history."
In 1986 an unknown person returned the pulpit chair that had been stolen from the church to Meserand and Barton’s home at Windy Hill Farm.
The former church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. When Edythe Meserand died in 1997 her calling hours were held at the restored eighteenth century building. Jane Barton died in 2005.
Current Charleston Historical Society chairperson Patricia Prill said the organization today has some 65 members. The church was painted last year. Windows were restored by Alden Witham of Sharon Springs and new shutters made by an Amish carpenter have been installed. New members and contributions are welcome. For information call 518 829 7592.
Bob Cudmore will be the after dinner speaker at the Shirley J. Luck Senior Center, 109 East Main Street in Johnstown at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Gary “Uncle Vito” Locatelli of PYX 106 radio fame organizes the senior center activities.
To invite Bob to speak to your organization, please email bobcudmore@yahoo.com
Mohawk Valley Weather, Saturday, June 8, 2019
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 79. Tonight Clear, with a low around 48. Sunday Sunny, with a high near 83. The 2019 American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference is this weekend at the Fort Plain Museum, 389 Canal St, Fort Plain. The conference is free for all history teachers and students from and associated with Montgomery County, public and private schools and colleges. The Conference includes several topics such as The Delaware Indian Nation and its 1778 Treaty with the United States, Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, the Plot against General Washington, the Man Who Wouldn’t Be King, The Road to Charleston: How Major General Nathanael Greene Dealt with Logistics, the Battles of Newtown and Groveland, George Washington & Alexander Hamilton: A Revolutionary Relationship, the American Revolution in the St. Lawrence Valley and much more
http://www.fortplainmuseum.com/
The Historians podcast is heard Saturday at 8:40 a.m. on WCSS 1490 AM and 106.9 FM in Amsterdam; Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on WBDY (99.5 FM) in Binghamton.
Jason Subik Mid-Morning Program WCSS Radio Amsterdam 106.9FM and 1490AM https://www.facebook.com/jason.subik Monday-Thursday at 9 am Posted as a Video Podcast hear on The Historians Thursday, June 6, 2019 The annual Researching New York Conference is set for November 21-23, 2019, at the University at Albany. Organizers are seeking individual and panel proposals on all aspects of New York State history, in all time periods. Roundtables, media presentations, workshops, and other non-traditional presentations are encouraged. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/06/albany-history-conference-proposals-due-june-16/ FORT PLAIN — The Fort Plain Free Library, 19 Willett St., will have the local history roundtable from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 19, 2019 Leader Herald https://www.leaderherald.com/news/in-brief/2019/06/history-roundtable-slated-for-june-19/
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