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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bob cudmore”
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  • Hidden History of the Mohawk Valley

    The Baseball Oracle, the Mohawk Encampment and More

    by Bob Cudmore ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Much of the history of New York's scenic Mohawk Valley has been recounted time and again. But so many other stories have remained buried, almost lost from memory. The man called the baseball oracle correctly predicted the outcome of twenty-one major-league games. Mrs. Bennett, a friend of Governor Thomas Dewey, owned the Tower restaurant and lived in the unique Cranesville building. An Amsterdam ... Read more

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  • Lost Mohawk Valley

    by Bob Cudmore ...
    Series series Lost
    Life in the Mohawk Valley today is vastly different from generations ago. Long gone are the factory whistles calling workers to their shifts in old mill towns. Fort Plain still benefits from little-known inventor William Yerdon, and Utica baseball player George Burns was so skilled that fans called left field "Burnsville." Few realize that a local artist shared a special bond with John Philip ... Read more

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  • Stories from the Mohawk Valley

    The Painted Rocks, the Good Benedict Arnold & More

    by Bob Cudmore ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    Nestled in Upstate New York along the banks of the Mohawk River are the many communities of the Mohawk Valley. These villages, towns and cities have unique histories but are inextricably tied together by the waterways that run through them. The mills, railroads and the Erie Canal sustained early growth; the Painted Rocks beautified the landscape; and tales from the local Mohawk Nation still enrich ... Read more

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  • Wedding of the Waters

    The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

    by Peter L. Bernstein ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history.**The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public ... Read more

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  • The Bullets, the Wizards, and Washington, DC, Basketball

    by Brett L. Abrams, Raphael Mazzone ...
    The nation’s capital has been home to a rich basketball tradition that began more than 80 years ago with a start-up league in the 1920s and continues today with the Washington Wizards. Under Hall of Fame coach and general manager Red Auerbach, the Washington Capitols reached the finals of the Basketball Association of America in just their third year of existence, and such renowned players as Wes ... Read more

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  • Kill for the Thrill

    by Michael W Sheetz ...
    "The book recounts a brutal string of murders committed by John Lesko and Michael Travaglia, who face the death penalty." — TribLIVEDuring the winter of 1979, southwestern Pennsylvania was rocked by a series of sensational murders, sparking a thirty-year criminal justice saga. A week of brutal, seemingly random killings culminated in the provocation and fatal shooting of Patrolman Leonard Miller, ... Read more

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  • New York's Liners

    by John A. Fostik MBA ...
    Series series Images of America
    For 175 years, passenger ships have crossed the Atlantic, linking the Old World with the New World. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants passed through the port of New York. National rivalries caused ships to grow in size, speed, and a comfort that had once been unimaginable. The advent of the passenger jet in 1958 changed how people travel. New York's harbor is now quieter, and ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of Southwestern Pennsylvania

    by Thomas White ...
    Series series Haunted America
    The author of Witches of Pennsylvania and "Pittsburgh's Historian of the Supernatural" takes on the region's folklore, ghost stories, and urban legends (Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership).The ghostly woman of Summit Cut Bridge, a black hound that guards the Gates of Hell and the whispering dead entombed beneath the Black Cross—these are the spirits of southwestern Pennsylvania. Join local author ... Read more

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  • Philadelphia Neighborhoods

    by Gus Spector ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    Philadelphia Neighborhoods is a compendium of historic views of the major residential sections of Philadelphia. This book presents a snapshot into the past when old neighborhoods were not so old and when currently established ones were as yet new construction. Through the medium of postcards, readers are invited back to an era before automobiles dominated the streets, before many city roads were ... Read more

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  • A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden

    The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks

    by James Schlett ...
    In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon**, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks**. Dubbed the "Philosophers' Camp," the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican ... Read more

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  • Hamburg Revisited

    by John R. Edson ...
    Series series Images of America
    Hamburg Revisited chronicles the people who led Hamburg in business, education, religion, and civic events during the town�s period of growth in the first half of the 20th century. Led by architects Lawrence Bley and Frank Spangenberg, Hamburg developed its distinctive brick and stone architecture of the 1920s and later boomed with growth in the post�World War II period. Many aerial photographs ... Read more

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