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Saturday, May 21, 2022 When credibility matters
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Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: 9/11 column from 2001

On Sept. 21, 2001, I wrote a tennis column about how two of the Capital Region’s top players, Bob Schmitz… Read more »

James Read, left, and Patrick Swayze in a scene from the 1985 TV miniseries “North and South.” Inset: Read with childhood friend Mark Mindel at a Niskayuna High School reunion in 2010 at the Mohawk Club in Niskayuna. (Reunion photo by Katherine Mindel)

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Top ten Civil War movie list

In more than two decades as a feature writer at the Daily Gazette, I’ve had the opportunity to write more… Read more »

The Cohoes Falls in 2019
Capital Region

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Five top historical summer destinations around the Capital Region

Growing up in the Capital Region always offered a number of fascinating road trips, and my love for and fascination… Read more »

Donald Sayles Gazette articles from Sept. 16, 1968, left, and July 26, 1978, right
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Longtime Schenectady schools official Donald Sayles was something special

After reading Donald Sayles obituary in the Gazette earlier this week, I came to the conclusion that he just had… Read more »

Owen M. Begley takes the oath of office and becomes Schenectady's new mayor on Jan. 1, 1948. From left are wife Anne Lynch Begley, brother Leo W. Begley and daughter Nancy Begley Pennell.
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Former Schenectady mayor Owen Begley and Sam Stratton’s 1958 House run

Owen Begley was a man who loved politics, and like all good politicians he was almost always capable of deftly… Read more »

The Nott Terrace High boys tennis team of 1951 is pictured with coach Sam Thompson before a match that year. Front row from left are Ettore Mancuso, Jack Boyajian and Joe Guerra. Back row from left are Howie Hubbard, Lou Gwinner, Justus Kusserow, Gerardus Jameson and Charles Dumond. Not pictured are Ed Letteron and Stan Majerowski.

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: 1951 Nott Terrace tennis team was big part of 79-0 streak

Guys like Jack Boyajian, Lou Gwinner, Howie Hubbard and Joe Guerra weren’t yet teenagers when the U.S. entered World War… Read more »

Executive director Mary Zawacki, education director Mike Diana and curator Susanna Fout give the 1705 Mabee House in Rotterdam Junction another coat of white paint.
Rotterdam

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: A 316-year look at Rotterdam Junction’s Mabee Farm

When I first visited the Mabee Farm on the south bank of the Mohawk River in Rotterdam Junction, I got… Read more »

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Rotterdam

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: New Rotterdam marker where history, geology, technology share landscape

At the northern end of 890, where the divided highway dissolves into the rural country road that is Route 5s… Read more »

Clark Wemple, left, and Archibald Wemple, right
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: A look at the Wemple family’s Schenectady history

My guess is that Archibald Wemple and his nephew, Clark, were reluctant politicians. As civic-minded attorneys, maybe entering politics is… Read more »

The famous Einstein meets Steinmetz photograph from 100 years ago this week
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: 100 years since Charles Steinmetz-Albert Einstein meeting

The world was watching when Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a few of his General Electric colleagues jumped on the train… Read more »

This painting of Chester A. Arthur is the official White House portrait by artist Daniel Huntington.
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Chester Arthur Zoom session set; New look at Union Col.-connected pres.

Those of us who know the entire Chester Alan Arthur story – and that group includes Schenectady history buffs as… Read more »

Frank Cornicelli, center, gets a hug from PBA Tour legend Pete Weber. At left is Schenectady USBC board member Chet Ciembroniewicz.
Schenectady

Bill Buell’s Electric City Archives: Remembering ‘Bowling Ambassador’ Frank Cornicelli

To say Frank Cornicelli made friends easily doesn’t do him justice. He probably had more “good friends” than anyone I’ve… Read more »

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