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The Historic Amsterdam League gets $14K study grant
Will study city’s west side for historic reasons by BRIANA O'HARA Leader Herald https://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2019/08/league-gets-14k-study-grant/
The Historians this Week
Tuesday, August 27, 2019-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette
Barbara McMartin on the Fulton County glove industry. 10-08-2005
McMartin had insight into glove industry;Amsterdam architect designed brick homes and schools
By Bob Cudmore
The celebrated Adirondack author Barbara McMartin wrote at least one book that dealt with industry and not the outdoors.McMartin, from Canada Lake, died September 27th. She was the author of 25 books about the Adirondacks, including her 11-book Discover series. She and her husband, W. Alec Reid, also wrote a book in 1999 chronicling the glove industry in Johnstown and Gloversville, “The Glove Cities.”McMartin’s father had been a physician but her great-grandfather, James I. McMartin, started a Johnstown glove shop in 1843. Her grandfathers continued in the trade.“Glovers were independent people,” McMartin said in an interview in 2001. A strain of that independence can be found in McMartin’s own life as an advocate for the Adirondack Park.McMartin said, “A man who was working as a glove cutter who got angry with his boss could start a glove shop with a pair of scissors and a needle.”In their book, McMartin and Reid recorded the existence of an astounding 1,900 glove shops in the Johnstown and Gloversville area over the past two centuries. Some shops employed as many as 500 workers, others were true mom and pop operations, with mom sewing gloves and pop cutting them.McMartin and Reid found that the glove industry actually peaked in 1890 and began its long, slow decline around 1905 in the Glove cities. Cheaper labor offshore led to a precipitous decline in local glove making after World War II.McMartin wrote, “Every time the business looked up, something unfortunate happened, usually an outside event over which manufacturers and workers had no control: shortages of skins, lower tariffs, losing home workers, war, more attractive jobs elsewhere, and most important of all, the globalization of manufacturing and cheap overseas labor.”ARCHITECT FOUNDA Fort Johnson woman has answered a question raised in a column some months ago.Krishna and Sunita Singh wondered who designed their home at 230 Market Street in Amsterdam. While many of the homes around them are made of wood, theirs is made of brick. The house was built in 1918 for William H. Cooper, who became first vice president of production at the Sanford carpet mills after John Sanford inherited the business from his father, Stephen Sanford, in 1913. Cooper died in 1930 and the home was subsequently owned by Herbert Singer of Amsterdam Printing, Dr. Fred Pipito, then Jeannie Morris, whose father was affiliated with the Schine Theatres.The Singhs were told that Amsterdam builder John Turner, who remodeled the Sanford mansion on Church Street, now City Hall, might have designed 230 Market Street.Turner likely built the house but it was designed by Amsterdam architect Howard F. Daly.According to his daughter, Genevieve Golden of Fort Johnson, Daly was originally from Herkimer. He moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he met and married his wife, Rose. They returned to the Mohawk Valley, settling in Amsterdam. Daly’s office was at 13 East Main Street.Golden said her father designed a number of brick residences, a style that had been common in Allentown. Daly frequently worked with builder John Turner and Turner’s sons, Richard and Thomas.Daly designed Wilbur H. Lynch High School, now the middle school, which opened in 1931. Golden was in the first class to enter the school her father designed. Daly also designed Vrooman Avenue School, now an apartment complex, and the new East Main Street School, now the Assembly of God Church. He also designed many homes on Market Hill, including his own house on Grant Avenue where he lived until his death. He died in 1980 at the age of 92.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Weather in Amsterdam and The Mohawk Valley-Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 75.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019-From The Historians Podcast Archives-Friday, May 11, 2018-Historians Episode 214-Excerpts are heard from the documentary: Harnessing Nature-Building the Great Sacandaga Lake. Saratoga County historian Lauren Roberts, discusses how the film came to be.
Photo:New York State Museum
Lauren Roberts
Lauren earned her B.A. in American Studies and Anthropology from Skidmore College in 2004 and her M.A. in Public History from the University of Albany in 2005. Lauren worked as a researcher for Curtin Archaeological Consulting, Inc. from 2004 to 2009 performing background research for archaeological digs across the state. From 2007 to 2014 Lauren was appointed historian of the Town of Day, a small rural community located in the northwestern corner of Saratoga County. In 2009 she became the Saratoga County Historian and remains in that position today. She is also the Region 5 coordinator for APHNYS.
New York State Museum http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/state-history/notes/meet-the-historian/lauren-roberts
Thursday, August 29, 2019-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-History along Route 5. 06-09-2007
Friday, August 30, 2019-Episode 281
Jim Richmond, the coordinator of the Saratoga County History Roundtable, discusses the growth of interest in local history in that county.
James Richmond is retired, with a life-long interest in Genealogy and American History. He has published several articles on the New England roots of the Richmond family, as well as articles on local history relating to locations in Saratoga County, New York. Jim also lectures on local history at libraries, historical societies and educational institutions. War on the Middleline is Jim’s first full-length book. He resides in Ballston Spa, New York
War on The Middleline
https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/07/war-on-the-middleline-the-october-1780-british-raid-on-ballston/
The war on the New York frontier did not end with Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga in October 1777. Year after year the conflict raged on, taking on the characteristics of a civil war. This conflict was not fought by grand armies facing off in titanic struggles, but rather initiated by British Loyalists garrisoned in western New York and Canada, and their Iroquois allies, sometimes opposed by local American militia units.
Jason Subik Mid-Morning Program Monday thru Thursday on WCSS Radio Amsterdam
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Rare Native American artifacts are on display at Fort Ticonderoga in the exhibition “The Art of Resistance: Selections from the Robert N. Nittolo Collection” for a limited time only through October 2019. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/08/rare-native-american-artifacts-at-fort-ti/
Fonda Fair opens tomorrow, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 http://fondafair.com/
In this episode of the podcast Someone Lived Here, Kendra Gaylord brings you to Edna St Vincent Millay’s home in Austerlitz, New York. Steepletop, which she named after Steeplebush that grew on the property, was Millay’s home for 25 years. It was also the place she died.
https://someonelivedhere.com/episodes/
The 118th NY Volunteer Infantry, the Adirondack Regiment, was formed in 1862 from over 1,000 men from Clinton, Essex and Warren counties. They were present at the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox.
While celebrating and memorializing the Adirondack Regiment, re-enactors are set to demonstrate various Civil War period military and civilian impressions in Lake Luzerne during events September 7-8, 2019 NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2019/08/an-adirondack-regiment-civil-war-enampment-in-lake-luzerne/
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