Schenectady

Italian Festa brings taste of Italy to Schenectady’s Hamburg Street https://www.diningandcooking.com/2188945/italian-festa-brings-taste-of-italy-to-schenectadys-hamburg-street/ #charity #festival #HamburgStreet #HomemadeFood #Italia #Italian #ItalianCulture #ItalianFesta #ItalianFood #italiano #italy #Schenectady #SonsAndDaughtersOfItaly

Perreca’s Bakery serving up famous butter cream cupcakes https://www.diningandcooking.com/2090681/perrecas-bakery-serving-up-famous-butter-cream-cupcakes/ #Butter #ButterCreamCupcakes #buttercream #CoalFiredOven #FamilyOwned #Italia #Italian #ItalianBread #ItalianButter #ItalianButtercream #italiano #italy #LittleItaly #MariaPerrecaPapa #Perreca'sBakery #Schenectady

My #LocalHistory website, @hoxsie.org, is now federating freely!

Happy to say that @activitypub solved a problem for me.

So if you're into random snippets of history about #Albany, #Schenectady, and #TroyNY, go ahead and give it a follow – it works!

The first college radio broadcast, in 1920, was under the personal call letters of Wendell W. King, a Black Union College student, the chief engineer and an avid amateur radio hobbyist from the age of 12.

WRUC did an excellent job telling his story, including the race-based discrimination he faced at #Schenectady General Electric. You can read it here:

https://www.union.edu/news/stories/201708/making-waves-race-radio-and-legacy-wendell-king-24

Writing about the Mohawk National Bank's great wig giveaway of 1970 made me dig into the history of the bank itself, which was established in 1807 as one of New York State's first four banks. It had about a 195-year run, then was merged into the usual non-local banking conglomeration.

Much more, including instructions on how to use the sidewalk teller, at the link:

https://hoxsie.org/.../mohawk-national-bank-of-schenectady/

When Mohawk National Bank was looking to drum up some new business in 1970, it thought up a giveaway. Free dishes, like the movies used to do? Nah. Maybe some towels, like the gas stations? Nope. Toaster ovens like those other banks? Uh uh. What they came up with was: wigs. Full story on something that may have only happened in #Schenectady at my blog:
https://hoxsie.org/2024/12/16/open-an-account-get-a-free-wig

#BoringTravel Departing #Schenectady on time on #Amtrak train 69, #Adirondack to #Montreal. Last #Amtrak train of the trip, and least pretentious: only plain coach seating.

#BoringTravel The empty waiting room in #Schenectady station has CO2 <= 500ppm. Just as well as there are no benches or other seating outdoors.

#BoringTravel Off the train at #Schenectady, ten minutes late. Stopping here for 22 hours because the connection to my next train doesn't quite work even at the closest point, two stops up.

started a #wikipedia article on Boston tennis player Polly Palfrey Woodrow (1906-1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Palfrey_Woodrow @wikiwomeninred #Boston @smithcollege @brynmawrcollege @skidmorecollege #WomensSports #tennis #schenectady

"Is Time Travel, Especially Into the Past, Possible?"
#experimental #astroparticle #physicist Matt Szydagis speaking at #TEDx #Schenectady #NY #US

Discussing a range of possibilities & problems of #TimeTravel, emphasizing the #paradoxes, #Einstein, and #quantummechanics. No mention of #entanglement. Agrees that our understanding should include #subatomic particles as #message carriers.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m2-I5HUwfRg 16 Jan 2018

On my local history blog, getting back to posting about whatever catches my eye. In this case, that's the story of Schenectady's Evan Richards, a Nott Terrace High School student who in 1946 won the Kodak National High School Photo Contest with a shot of a Freihofer's horse and bread wagon.

Not big history, but an interesting story.

#LocalHistory #Schenectady #SchenectadyNY #SchenectadyHistory #photography #kodak #photographer

https://hoxsie.org/2024/03/20/schenectadys-prize-winning-student-photographer/

Again, images from a 1946 #HighSchool #Yearbook from #Schenectady, NY. Again, the past is really a different country. It's always remarkable to me how each individual teen and young adult era has its own sayings and phrasings that make perfect sense to everyone in it, confuse those outside of it, and often become indecipherable decades later.

Right now, #Rossini #Salieri #Brahms and #Mozart with Fisher from #Schenectady https://buff.ly/45vuC12 #wch

In 20 minutes, #Rossini #Salieri #Brahms and #Mozart with Fisher from #Schenectady https://buff.ly/45vuC12 #wch

Today, #Rossini #Salieri #Brahms and #Mozart with Fisher from #Schenectady https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/rossini_salieri_brahms_and_mozart_with_fisher_from_schenectady/78112/ #wch

Right now, #Coleman #Brahms #Copland with McCarthy and #Mendelssohn from #Schenectady https://buff.ly/427Dh8D #wch