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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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