Bob Cudmore’s guest on Talk of the Town today, Sunday, August 25, 2019 is Congressman Antonio Delgado from the 19th Congressional District. Delgado talks about gun violence, problems facing upstate farmers, health care and other issues. Talk of the Town on Magic 590 and 100.5 plus 1410 and 96.9 in the North Country.
"Talk of the Town Podcast Twenty Three Minutes"
Podcast Episode 280-Bob Cudmore has stories about the 1957 Mohawk Indian encampment in Fort Hunter, how Amsterdam’s wealthy Sanford family inspired a 1938 motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn and how a florist, a rabbi and a judge in the Mohawk Valley were known for their speaking abilities.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, August 25, 2019-High pressure will build in from southern Quebec and
northern New England today. The surface high will dominate our
weather into Tuesday with comfortable humidity levels with partly to
mostly sunny conditions. Temperatures will run a little below
normal for late August. Today, Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 74
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A marshal in the village of Akin
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History, Daily Gazette
The controversial politician Theron Akin once used a rope to stop speeders near his home in what is now Fort Johnson.
Born in Johnstown, Akin went to school in Amsterdam and became a dentist and farmer. His father Ethan was a landowner who lived in Old Fort Johnson itself.
In 1909, Theron Akin led the campaign to incorporate the area around the Old Fort as the village of Akin and became the first village president.
Akin was elected as a Progressive Republican in Congress in 1911, telling the New York Times, “I got close to the people and told them the truth.”
“No one can doubt his honesty or his courage and firmness of purpose,” Robert McKeever of Schenectady told the Washington Post in 1911. “Besides being a farmer, Dr. Akin is a sort of town marshal in his village. He is the owner of an automobile, but he doesn’t like scorching, and when the autoists went speeding too rapidly by his house he determined to stop ‘em.
“He served notice that anyone caught going at a greater speed than 15 miles per hour through Akin would be dealt with summarily. The sign didn’t have a bit of an effect.
“Then the doctor early one morning secured a stout rope and stretched it across the road. He waited for the scorchers, and the first one, of course had to stop. It was not long until there were a score of impatient automobilists lined up. All were fined, and if they were caught again they were imprisoned. This put an end to the scorching in Akin, New York.”
The newspaper clipping used in this story was provided by Akin’s descendant, Terry Akin.
Akin served only one term in Washington, losing a reelection bid in 1912. The late local historian Bob Going wrote that while Akin was serving in Congress, his colleagues thought so little of him that they voted to rename the village of Akin as Fort Johnson, over his objections.
Akin was elected Amsterdam mayor in 1919. The Recorder reported he won endorsement of all parties in spirited primary contests that year.
Tomorrow, Monday, August 26, 2019-The Story Behind the Story Podcast focuses on controversial Mohawk Valley politician Theron Akin.
When Akin became mayor of Amsterdam in the spring of 1920, the city made what were called radical changes in local traffic rules on Market Street, a busy downtown thoroughfare.
For the previous 16 years horses were driven on the east side of Market regardless of which way they were going. Apparently this made it easier for deliveries from horse drawn wagons to businesses on the east side of the street. Motor cars traveling in either direction stayed on the west side of the street.
The new rule was simple: all vehicles, horse drawn or motor driven, had to keep right. Parking was banned on the east side of the street, except for deliveries, Thirty-minute parking was allowed on the west side of the street.
Officer William E. Cline was named traffic supervisor with a post at Market Street and Guy Park Avenue. His job was to educate drivers on the new traffic rules. Another officer was assigned to enforce the new parking restrictions. A third officer handled traffic at Market and East Main Streets.
Historian Hugh Donlon wrote of the Akin years, “It was a time of hatreds, barrages of unparalleled personal attacks, and with pamphleteering innuendos so gross and vicious that some of the campaign literature was later prized as collectors’ items.”
Akin left office at the end of 1923. According to the family Web site, when he died in 1933 he was “friendless and penniless.” He was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Tribes Hill.
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
The Mid-Morning Show with Jason Subik on WCSS 1490 AM 106.9 FM. Phone #518-843-2500. Special thanks to my guest Dr. Nelli Bush, School Board President of the Greater Amsterdam School District, and U.S. Congressman Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, who called in.
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The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation next Summer Stroll, Saratoga’s Historic West Side with neighborhood native George DeMers, is set this Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 10:30 am. This tour will look at the restored historic West Side, also known as Little Dublin, to learn about Saratoga’s Irish and Italian immigrants who helped shape the history of this unique district. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/08/saratogas-historic-west-side-summer-stroll/
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