The Historians with Bob Cudmore on local and Public Radio the WWW and in print every weekend Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder

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Next radio broadcast tomorrow at Noon "WCSS Amsterdam 106.9FM" 

Friday, May 5, 2023-Episode 473-Bob Cudmore provides a Focus on History podcast with topics including an eccentric philosopher, the Demskys of Eagle Street, Amsterdam’s agile mayor Burt Deal and how boxing flourished in 1930s Amsterdam.  Dave Greene remembers how he met boxing great Jake LaMotta.

Saturday May 6, 2023-From the Archives-August 14, 2020-Episode 331-Joanne Blaauboer has been researching the old Presbyterian Church graveyard in the hamlet of Fish House on Great Sacandaga Lake.  Church deacon Abraham Beecher is buried there.  He was the cousin of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe.  

Sunday, May 7, 2023- Focus on History-Amsterdam Mayor Burt Deal

Longtime Amsterdam mayor Burtiss Deal was five foot five and weighed 150 pounds when he played varsity football for Amherst College in Massachusetts.

   Into his seventies Deal was able to make an impact on a conversation by jumping onto a table from a standing position

Bob Cudmore "History stories from The Mohawk Valley"

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Historian Episode #500 this fall

Donald Williams is author of “Grandfather’s Tool Chest.” The book has stories about 400 vintage and antique tools. Don Williams, 88, is a well-known educator, lecturer, columnist, and author. He has written eleven books on local and Adirondack history.