Bob Cudmore

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Amsterdam native was theater, TV and night club star - Focus on History

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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Living on long distance love, a Cudmore family story - Focus on History

2 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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Death at the Amsterdam Armory - Focus on History

3 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

Members of the Forty-sixth Separate Company of the National Guard were preparing to depart for the Spanish American War on Sunday, May 1, 1898 at Amsterdam’s four-year-old Armory on the city’s south side. The Armory today is a hotel. A concert was in progress and Shaw’s City Orchestra was performing “My Country Tis of Thee” for a crowd of two thousand. kAmpE E92E >@>6?E !C:G2E6 r2=G:? q] '2? ~’{:?52[ H9@ 925 6?=:DE65 E96 AC6G:@FD %9FCD52J[ H2D D9@H:?8 9:D 6BF:A>6?E :?
Artist Fritz Vogt was drawn to Montgomery County country homes - Focus on History

4 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

He slept in barns and relieved the pain of rheumatism with alcohol. He spoke broken English and died at the Montgomery County almshouse in Yosts in 1900. And he left a collection of 200 drawings that became the subject of an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City in 2003. The retrospective was also displayed in Cooperstown and Orlando, Florida.
Amsterdam woman was pioneer union leader - Focus on History

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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Bicycling in the old Mohawk Valley - Focus on History

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

An organization called the Clerical Bicyclists reached Amsterdam on August 10, 1886 and stayed the night at the Warner Hotel on Main Street. The pastors and their machines, on a summer outing according to the Daily Democrat newspaper, boarded a train for Canajoharie. There they went “to their wheels” and cycled to Sharon Springs for dinner. kAm!652=:?8 AC62496CD H6C6 ;FDE A2CE @7 E96 6IA=@D:@? @7 :?E6C6DE :? 3:4J4=:?8 :? E96 =2E6 `g__D 2?5 62C=J `h__D :?
Football star, new NY Giant, Russell Wilson's Amsterdam roots - Focus on History

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

NFL quarterback Russell Wilson's roots go back to an African American family in Amsterdam. Wilson and the NFL Giants have agreed to a one year deal, according to multiple sources. kAm(:=D@? H2D DE2CE:?8 BF2CE6C324< 7@C E96 $62EE=6 $6292H<D :? a_`b] w6 2?5 E96 $6292H<D 56762E65 s6?G6C :? E96 a_`c $FA6C q@H=] %96 $6292H<D =@DE E@ }6H t?8=2?5 :? E96 a_`d $FA6C q@H=] (:=D@? :D 4@>:?8 @77 9:D 7:CDE J62C H:E9 E96 !:EED3FC89 $E66=6CD]k^AmkAm(:=D@?VD 8C62E 8C2?572E96C[ w2CC:D@? (:=D@?[ $C][ H2D 3@C? :?
Amsterdam's Mill Girl’s long and productive life - Focus on History

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

Amsterdam’s mill girl died Aug. 24, 2018, at Albany Medical Center. Sophie “Sue” Fraczek was 94. According to her grandnephew, Dominick Fraczek, she died at Albany Medical Center but had been living in a second-floor apartment on Amsterdam’s Guy Park Avenue. kAmw6C A2C6?ED[ s@>:?:4< u] 2?5 |2CJ z@D:32 uC24K6<[ H6C6 !@=:D9 :>>:8C2?ED] w6C 72E96C H@C<65 2E |@92H< r2CA6E >:==D :?
Petrone was Amsterdam’s rocket man - Focus on History

2 months ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

Amsterdam city historian Robert von Hasseln has compiled biographical data on Rocco Petrone, Amsterdam’s link to the moon landings that took place over 50 years ago. Petrone was launch director at Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida and was what the New York Times called a “driving force” in the Apollo moon program. kAm“$A2CD6=J DA@<6? 2?5 D6=7\67724:?8 :? AF3=:4[” G@? w2DD6=? D2:5] “!6EC@?6 H2D E@F89[ 3=F?E[ 2?5 56>2?5:?8 :? AC:G2E6]k^AmkAm“~?46[ H96? 2 3C:67:?8 4@?EC24E@C 2EE6>AE65 E@ 3=F77 9:> @?
Petrone was Amsterdam’s rocket man - Focus on History

2 months ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

Amsterdam city historian Robert von Hasseln has compiled biographical data on Rocco Petrone, Amsterdam’s link to the moon landings that took place over 50 years ago. Petrone was launch director at Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida and was what the New York Times called a “driving force” in the Apollo moon program. kAm“$A2CD6=J DA@<6? 2?5 D6=7\67724:?8 :? AF3=:4[” G@? w2DD6=? D2:5] “!6EC@?6 H2D E@F89[ 3=F?E[ 2?5 56>2?5:?8 :? AC:G2E6]k^AmkAm“~?46[ H96? 2 3C:67:?8 4@?EC24E@C 2EE6>AE65 E@ 3=F77 9:> @?