210 YEARS AGO
James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime; and that if ever a murder was committed in the State of New York, his executioners were now about to…
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70 YEARS AGO
Lawrence “Butch” Gennarino, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gennarino, 29 Grand Street, returned home unexpectedly late yesterday. Gennarino was one of the more than 200 seamen critically injured on May 26 when an explosion occurred aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Bennington 75 miles off the coast of New England, killing 90 of his shipmates. Following the explosion Gennarino was placed on the critical list. With his family at his bedside at the U.S. Naval Hospital at…
This annual garlic adventure of mine turns out to be a time to wrestle, without having to pin them down, some of the more worrisome problems we now face “in these United States.” It is easy to ignore unpleasantness; even harder to know what to do about it. As I was hanging up the last of the garlic, I was thinking of W.B. Yeats’ great poem, “The Second Coming.”…
160 YEARS AGO: Lieutenant F.W. Foote of the 121st Regiment, reported killed, is alive and prisoner in Libby Prison, Richmond. He was wounded in an engagement on the 10th of May, captured, and was obliged to have a leg amputated above the knee. In a letter to his Mother he says: “I passed through everything safely until the 10th when about sunset, eight picked regiments selected from our corps were detached to charge a position of the enemy’s works consisting…
90 YEARS AGO: An endeavor to introduce a new code of ethics for German business is one thing for which Adolf Hitler deserves credit. E. Lewis B. Curtis, head of the History Department at Oneonta State Normal School said in conversation yesterday.…
Iron String Press reached out to Otsego County leaders and readers for their thoughts on Saturday’s shooting and repercussions to the nation and to society moving forward. Here is what those who responded had to say:…
Within the NYF process, no project was proposed for 217 Main Street, the former Where it All Began Bat Company. The village has long been interested in that site’s potential for housing. However—because of the NYF process—a developer of housing became aware of the property. Vecino Group (https://www.vecinogroup.com) is a national company dedicated to the development of affordable and supportive housing.…
210 YEARS AGO
William Cheney informs his friends and the public in general, that he will communicate to any person, the art of breaking horses or cattle, so that they may be made docile and gentle, or will break them himself for a reasonable compensation. He can inform any person, so that they will be enabled to break a Horse, that can be rode, in the space of one hour – even the wildest that can be produced. His terms can…
110 Years Ago
The famous aeronaut Frank Burnside, a former resident of this city, accompanied by his wife, survived a 2,000 foot plunge into the Hudson River last Tuesday as the 90-horsepower motor of his hydro-aeroplane stalled out within sight of Manhattan after leaving Seagate for Dobbs Ferry. The flying boat was working perfectly at a speed nearly a mile a minute when a scattering of spectators gathered below at Greystone heard the barking of the motor cease. The speed decreased…
The event was orchestrated by a collaboration of the Town of Maryland Historical Society, the Westford Historical Society, and the Worcester Historical Society. Bob Parmerter, a trustee and program committee chairman for the Town of Maryland Historical Society, played a pivotal role in the planning and execution of the event.…