It’s a synergy, I tell you. It has to be. Yesterday, after I posted my blog about taking my artwork The Shooting Star to the new Albany Center Gallery location, one of my friends, Roger Green, messaged me to suggest I list ACG’s new address, as they have moved from their former location to this…
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Maybe they need to replace the armrest.
The Albany-Schenectady-Troy area has a rich movie theater history. Many of those theaters were part of national or regional theater chains. Now I can’t speak for the theaters that operated before my birth – I do know we had some RKO theaters and Stanley Warner and Fabian theaters in the area – but by the…
Read MoreIn honour of wins by Mark Carney and the Sudbury Five …
As you probably heard by now, Canada recently had a major election, and Mark Carney – who ascended to the Prime Ministership after Justin Trudeau stepped down – won a full term as the country’s leader. Basically, he rallied the country with a campaign that was part “elbows up” and part “we’re not America’s 51st…
Read MoreWhen It Played in Albany: March 5, 1981
There’s a specific reason why I picked this date. There’s a reason why I’m traveling back 44 years in time. But we’ll get to that in a moment. On occasion, I’ll pick a specific date in Albany’s history, and then I’ll find out what movies were playing at the local theaters and drive-ins on that…
Read MoreBarry Kramer: A Life Well Led
Barry Kramer passed away over the weekend. He was 82 years old. He served as a Surrogate Court judge in New York, and would later oversee the Fourth District of New York’s Supreme Court. Oh, and he played in the NBA. Way back in the day. Let me explain. A graduate of Linton High School…
Read MoreA book on Albany’s railroad history? Yes, please…
This case across one of my social media feeds. And it definitely caught my attention. Let me explain. If you’re looking for any specific book about a heritage railroad or its existence in some region, you are blessed with choices. And undoubtedly, all these books contain breathtaking photographs and historic artifacts of that railroad’s history…
Read MoreRevell Model Kits: Building childhood memories
This article was originally written by Chuck Miller for Toy Collector Magazine, January 2008. The memories are still strong for model kit builders – the accomplishment of working with tiny plastic parts, plucked like fruit from a styrene tree, assembled with a tube of tacky-sweet airplane glue, gobs of which would inevitably stain your clothes…
Read MoreI knew the plantation before I knew the college.
Tougaloo College, known as an HBCU (Historically Black College / University), sits in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi. Tougaloo College is also the learning institution where in 1961, nine of its students participated in a “read-in” protest at Jackson’s “whites-only” municipal public library. The students, later known as the “Tougaloo Nine,” were arrested for simply…
Read MoreWhen it Played in Albany: November 6, 1972
I don’t know why I picked this day of all days to search the vintage newspaper archives. But I haven’t done one of these “When It Played in Albany” blog posts in a long time, so let’s travel back 50+ years and see what was showing on the big screens. And back in 1972, the…
Read MoreRemembering the Neponset Drive-In
Restoring these classic drive-in speakers has been a fun little project for me. It’s kept me going through my recent surgeries, and it’s kept me going on days when I could use a little “me” time. It’s also allowed me to revisit my past. And by “past,” I’m talking about the memories I had with…
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