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SCHENECTADY
Historic neighborhood tours return to Schenectady
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Schenectady’s long and varied house history will once again be prominently on display in 2013.
GE’s Nancy Fitzroy is subject of latest Wizards of Schenectady video
Friday, May 17, 2013
Most of Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy’s friends were all about going to Skidmore College and finding a husband. She had other plans. “I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go to Skidmore and get my degree in ‘Mrs.,’ ” said Fitzroy, a Pittsfield, Mass., native and a mechanical engineer at General Electric Co. for 37 years from 1950-87. And she did get married, too.
In May ’86, students had eye on the prize (with photos)
Monday, May 13, 2013
May days in 1986 bustled in area schools, as students prepared for final exams and summer recess. Musicians from Mohonasen High School showed off new trophies — and young people from Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Junior High School considered a journey . . . to the center of the mind. Other kids followed Steinmetz — their outstanding achievements earned them honors at the annual Charles P. Steinmetz Memorial Awards.
Tulip Fest coronations of ’88, ’89 continued tradition of four decades (with photos)
Monday, May 6, 2013
Maria Mokhiber and Heather Britt preferred petals and poses during the late 1980s. Both were chosen tulip queens for Albany’s annual Tulip Festival. Mokhiber wore crown and cape in 1988; Britt succeeded her in 1989.
MENANDS
Sixth-graders pay tribute to veteran killed in Civil War
Monday, May 6, 2013
Thomas Ray can rest easy — new friends have improved his grave site.
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Artifact research eyed for Schoharie pipeline route
Monday, April 29, 2013
State historic preservation officials are asking Constitution Pipeline to dig a bit deeper into sites where prehistoric artifacts were found along the proposed route of a natural gas pipeline the company hopes to construct.
Local man heralds women of the French Revolution
Sunday, April 28, 2013
In 1830, two years before the June Rebellion of 1832 highlighted in Victor Hugo’s classic novel “Les Misérables,” a Schenectady County man documented the struggle of French revolutionaries, men and women, in a letter home to his sister in November.
Country store has roots in 19th century Mariaville
Sunday, April 28, 2013
If Silas Marsh woke from the dead today and happened upon the small general store he built back on Mariaville Lake in 1831, he’d have no trouble recognizing the place.
Awards, balloons, street sign among things worthy of a glance in spring of ’88 and ’89
Monday, April 22, 2013
Spring during the late 1980s was a great time if you knew numbers, academia, songs and Lena Spencer.
Connections to Robinson’s integration of baseball still seen in Brooklyn
Sunday, April 21, 2013
With the movie “42” bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Estate auction in ’61 brought sizable crowd, plenty of bargains (with photos)
Monday, April 15, 2013
Cars and trucks stretched for one mile on both sides of Potter Road in West Glenville Dozens of people showed up for bids and bargains -- an estate sale for the late Henry Van Derzee on July 1, 1961.
Union marks anniversary of architect’s innovative campus design (with photos)
Sunday, April 14, 2013
When school president Eliphalet Nott took office in 1804, he talked about how Union’s students should be “separated from the great world,” and that the campus should provide them with “the decorum, ceremony, and politeness of refined domestic life.” In January 1813, he found a man with the vision to deliver just that in French architect Joseph Ramée.
Lecture to focus on Native groups, relations with Dutch settlers
Thursday, April 11, 2013
If you’re tired of getting your Mohawks mixed up with your Mahicans, then William A. Starna is just the guy to see. Starna, a retired anthropology professor at SUNY-Oneonta, will present a lecture, “Of Different Worlds: American Indian and Dutch Experiences in the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys,” at the Schenectady County Historical Society.
Students immersed themselves in school plays in ’88 and ’89
Monday, April 8, 2013
Stephen Jackett was only in the sixth grade, but he was one of the biggest stars in the Mohonasen school district during the spring of 1989. Roles and shows were featured at other high school auditoriums during 1988 and 1989.
In ’88, primary campaigns brought Bush, Dukakis to region days apart
Monday, April 8, 2013
It was only April, but George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis were looking forward to November. Each candidate was campaigning to win his respective party’s nomination for president. In 1988, both visited the Capital Region three days apart.
