Author Dana Cudmore discussed his new book, “The Cave Electrician’s Widow: The Tragedy at Howe Caverns & Dramatic Courtroom Fight for Justice,” at the latest installment of the Winter Speaker Series at the Schenectady County Historical Society on Saturday. Read MoreNew Howe Caverns book discussed at Schenectady County Historical Society speaker series
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David W. Chalmers and his partners were the last industrialists to start a major knitting mill in Amsterdam.
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SCRAPBOOK - Black History Month has started; This Capital Region Scrapbook puts past Black History Month participants and familiar faces back in the newspaper.
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Both Faye Tischler and Fran Gordon always appreciated a good history book with plenty of footnotes and a sizable index. But to get their fourth graders at Paige Elementary School in Schenectady interested, they realized, a different approach was in order.
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Amsterdam tuba player Herbert S. Breen was married twice. His first wife, Maude Mosher, died in 1927, the year the Mohawk Mills Band was formed. Two years later he married Carrie Wilbur.
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On one of Samuel Stratton’s early trips to Amsterdam as part of his first Congressional campaign there, he luckily ran into an 11-year old entrepreneur.
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A quick search of Paul Perreault’s name and one thing is certain— you’ll discover a man who loved history, not only researching it but sharing it with others.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS - A look at the restoration by former DPW employee Stephen Henderer of 40 geometric and 20 picture stained glass windows in the ceiling of the Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs during a press conference Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
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It was a Tuesday night in February of 1977 when I first saw Barry Kramer with a basketball in his hands. It was a special moment.
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SCRAPBOOK - This year's Martin Luther King, Jr., Day tributes and remembrances will include a life celebration at the Empire State Plaza in Albany on Friday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. and a concert honoring King at the Rotterdam Community Center, 705…
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Long before Polish-American John Gomulka was elected mayor of Amsterdam in 1967, Michael J. Wytrwal, who never held elected office, was widely known as the city’s unofficial Polish mayor.
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Cap Scrap's first outing for 2025 features people in executive dress, winter dress and beach dress.
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America was prospering in 1925, 100 years ago, and local businesses staged Amsterdam’s Progress Exposition and Auto Show that year to show off that prosperity.
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A year ago I took over as Niskayuna’s town historian, and 2024 has been a year of discoveries and adventures.
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The movie "South of Tahiti" was playing at the Strand Theatre on East Main Street in Amsterdam when it was interrupted as the news broke that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Schenectady has had more than its fair share of large, horrific fires. One only need look back at the Schenectady Massacre in 1690, and the major fires of 1803, 1819 and 1861 to see significant numbers of people displaced from their homes and…
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Amsterdam retail sales records were broken in the 1902 Christmas shopping season.
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Our reminder that Carey once taped an entire television special, "Here Is Mariah Carey," that was broadcast nationally on NBC, right here in Schenectady, at Proctors.