Sunday, June 9, 2019-Bob Cudmore’s guest on Magic 590’s Talk of the Town is Congressman Paul Tonko.
Historical tours and strawberries make ideal start to Rice Homestead season by ERIC RETZLAFF Leader Herald https://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2019/06/historical-tours-and-strawberries-make-ideal-start-to-rice-homestead-season/ MAYFIELD The historic Rice Homestead is like a map of history.
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.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, June 9, 2019 Sunny, with a high near 83. Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 52. Monday Showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 71.
Thanks to a very generous contribution from author Dave Northrup, the 2019 Historians Podcast fund drive now stands at $2,225, 56% of the yearly goal of $4,000. Please contribute online. www.gofundme.com/2019-the-historians Or to donate by mail, please make out a check to Bob Cudmore and send to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, N.Y. 12302
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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 former residents including the gripping tale of a murder at Cherry Hill.
Deborah Emmons-Andarawis
Friday, June 21, 2019-Episode 271-Albany, N.Y., tour guide Maeve McEneny talks about her native city and tours she has created on historic landmarks, literature and even pubs. McEneny is Education and Heritage Coordinator at the Albany Visitor Center.
Friday, June 28. 2019-Episode 272- A long stretch of New York’s Mohawk River became a canal in the early 1900s. Bridge dams made that possible and are still in use today. Michael Riley is author of “Bridge Dams on the Mohawk: David A. Watt’s Marvelous Creation.”
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.
Monday, June 10, 2019-The Story Behind the Story Podcast focuses on the Daily Gazette column on the Charleston (N.Y.) Historical Society.
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.
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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
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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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