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Friday, August 17, 2018-Historians Episode 228- Harald Johnson is author of the historical novel: New York 1609 which portrays the encounter between explorer Henry Hudson and his early Dutch settlers New York City’s Lenape Indians. http://haraldjohnson.com/
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In Print from The Daily Gazette Archives
Wednesday, August 15, 2018-From the Archives of Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Barbara McMartin’s history of the Fulton County glove industry.
McMartin's Work on Glove Industry
By: Bob Cudmore October 20, 2005
McMartin had insight into glove industry;
Amsterdam architect designed brick homes and schools-Focus on History, Daily Gazette.
The celebrated Adirondack author Barbara McMartin wrote at least one book that dealt with industry and not the outdoors.
McMartin, from Canada Lake, died September 27th. She was the author of 25 books about the Adirondacks, including her 11-book Discover series. She and her husband, W. Alec Reid, also wrote a book in 1999 chronicling the glove industry in Johnstown and Gloversville, The Glove Cities.
McMartin's father had been a physician but her great-grandfather, James I. McMartin, started a Johnstown glove shop in 1843. Her grandfathers continued in the trade. Glovers were independent people, McMartin said in an interview in 2001. A strain of that independence can be found in McMartin's own life as an advocate for the Adirondack Park.
McMartin said, A man who was working as a glove cutter who got angry with his boss could start a glove shop with a pair of scissors and a needle.
In their book, McMartin and Reid recorded the existence of an astounding 1,900 glove shops in the Johnstown and Gloversville area over the past two centuries. Some shops employed as many as 500 workers, others were true mom and pop operations, with mom sewing gloves and pop cutting them.
McMartin and Reid found that the glove industry actually peaked in 1890 and began its long, slow decline around 1905 in the Glove cities.
Cheaper labor offshore led to a precipitous decline in local glove making after World War II.
McMartin wrote, Every time the business looked up, something unfortunate happened, usually an outside event over which manufacturers and workers had no control: shortages of skins, lower tariffs, losing home workers, war, more attractive jobs elsewhere, and most important of all, the globalization of manufacturing and cheap overseas labor.
ARCHITECT FOUND
A Fort Johnson woman has answered a question raised in a column some months ago.
Krishna and Sunita Singh wondered who designed their home at 230 Market Street in Amsterdam. While many of the homes around them are made of wood, theirs is made of brick. The house was built in 1918 for William H. Cooper, who became first vice president of production at the Sanford carpet mills after John Sanford inherited the business from his father, Stephen Sanford, in 1913. Cooper died in 1930 and the home was subsequently owned by Herbert Singer of Amsterdam Printing, Dr. Fred Pipito, then Jeannie Morris, whose father was affiliated with the Schine Theatres.
The Singhs were told that Amsterdam builder John Turner, who remodeled the Sanford mansion on Church Street, now City Hall, might have designed 230 Market Street. Turner likely built the house but it was designed by Amsterdam architect Howard F. Daly.
According to his daughter, Genevieve Golden of Fort Johnson, Daly was originally from Herkimer. He moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he met and married his wife, Rose. They returned to the Mohawk Valley, settling in Amsterdam. Daly's office was at 13 East Main Street.
Golden said her father designed a number of brick residences, a style that had been common in Allentown. Daly frequently worked with builder John Turner and Turner's sons, Richard and Thomas.
Daly designed Wilbur H. Lynch High School, now the middle school, which opened in 1931. Golden was in the first class to enter the school her father designed. Daly also designed Vrooman Avenue School, now an apartment complex, and the new East Main Street School, now the Assembly of God Church. He also designed many homes on Market Hill, including his own house on Grant Avenue where he lived until his death. He died in 1980 at the age of 92.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Wednesday, August 15, 2018-A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CITY FRIDAY By JOHN PURCELL Recorder News Staff. Following a successful inaugural event, Amsterdam’s Craft Beer Festival will return Friday at a new location with an expanded number of samples and activities. The second annual DomAdi’s Craft Beer Festival, presented by the Amsterdam Tourism, Marketing and Recreation Department, will held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, August 17, 2018 https://www.recordernews.com/news/local-news/130471
The Amsterdam Knights of Columbus Council 209 will hold its fourth annual Feast of the Assumption festival on Saturday, Auguat 18, 2018 from noon to 6 p.m. at 193 West Main St. John Purcell RecorderNews https://www.recordernews.com/news/local-news/130555
Thursday, August 16, 2018-From the Archives Episode 95, January 24, 2016- Jewelry designer Aja Raden with an account of how jewels have affected the course of history. Raden is author of “Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession and How Desire Shapes the World.”
FORT PLAIN — Sun Mountain Fiddle will present fiddle-based classics at the free summer music in the park series at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 16, 2018 in Haslett Park. Leader Herald http://www.leaderherald.com/news/in-brief/2018/08/fiddle-based-classics-set-for-thursday/
Amateur and professional photographers have been invited submit images for the 13th annual Erie Canalway Photo Contest. Images should convey the wealth of things to do and see along the waterway and express the unique character of the canal and canal communities. Winning photos will be featured in the 2019 Erie Canalway calendar. NYHB https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2018/08/14/erie-canalway-photo-contest-call-for-entries-4/
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