All right kids, pay attention. What I have here on the blog today is a series of children’s programs that were actually live-action programs designed to entertain and educate. Some of these aired on PBS (back when PBS had about three hours of children’s programming every afternoon) and others are local TV shows, and hopefully…
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Photos from the 2010 IBL Championship Game
I haven’t watched a basketball game at the Washington Avenue Armory in over a year, and I haven’t photographed one at that building in two years. And to be totally honest, I wasn’t planning on photographing a game there in the foreseeable future. Then I got an e-mail from Kip Leonetti, the Vice President of…
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Remembering WRGB’s “Little Red Schoolhouse” and “Answers Please”
From 1963 to 1989, the Capital District’s top students looked forward to their day in the sun – a chance to compete on WRGB’s 1960’s televised quiz show “Little Red Schoolhouse,” which was later rebranded “Answers Please” in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In its nearly 30 years of existence, the show’s format remained relatively the…
Read MoreStreet Academy / Harriet Gibbons High School 1969-2010
July 14, 2010. I’m at the Pine Hills Elementary School, where the Albany City School Board will hold this month’s meeting. On the agenda is the possibility of closing Harriet Gibbons High School and merging the 73 9th graders that are scheduled to enroll into HGHS into Albany High School. If this vote takes place,…
Read MoreThe Summer Bowl 1 trivia teams are…
God I feel like Don Weeks in a blizzard, and a million kids tuning in to hear if they have school or not. Be that as it may, the following teams have been invited – and have accepted their invitations – to Summer Bowl 1, the big-time one-day summer trivia tournament at Recovery Room (Troy)…
Read MoreThe mystery of the antique camera film – reboot
Last Sunday, I went to the 440 Art Center in Schenectady, as it was time to take down the polar panorama shots I exhibited at last month’s Schenectady Art Night. I arrived a little early, and while I waited for someone to unlock the building and allow me access to the facility, I took a…
Read MoreDid I really find a lucky penny?
How often do we pick up loose change from the ground. Maybe if it’s a quarter or a dime. Rarely if it’s a penny. I mean, it’s not even cost-effective to bend over and pick up a penny. But there was something on this particular penny, something that really caught my attention. Whoever owned that…
Read MoreA report from Albany Med, 40 years later
In 1970, my baby brother Allen Miller was critically injured in a car crash. Now, with information recently acquired from Albany Medical Center, I can now piece together what happened at the accident and upon Allen’s arrival at the hospital.
Read MoreUsing filters on my black-and-white “efke” shots
Last week I went up to Saratoga Springs with my Nikkormat FTn camera, it had a load of KB50 black-and-white “efke” film inside. I also had several colored filters for my lens – an orange Tiffen 85B filter; a red Bower filter, and a fluorescent Zeikos filter. Yeah, I don’t know why I would need…
Read MoreTen Best Bowling Shots Ever
Hi everybody, welcome to Chuck Miller’s version of “TV Tournament Time,” as sponsored by your local Capital District Bowling Proprietors Association, and by the New England Candlepin Bowling Association. And in the immortal words of Howard Tupper, hi to all the small fry out there. Chris White, the archivist over at WRGB, was kind enough…
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