Bob Cudmore

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Remembering Fred Wojcicki; Inman Senior Center Anniversary - Focus on History

2 days ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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FOCUS ON HISTORY: Last flight over Japan

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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Political boss Jacob Snell left mark on Montgomery County - Focus on History

2 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

Jacob Snell was "unceasing and unrelenting" on behalf of the Republican Party. The Canajoharie Courier wrote, "A campaign once begun was waged until the polls were closed on Election Day, so in case of a narrow defeat he never felt the chagrin that he had not made his best and most ardent fight."
An Amsterdam tavern, a paint brush factory and a pool hall - Focus on History

3 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Bob Cudmore

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Death at the Amsterdam Armory - Focus on History

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 months 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 :?