City Historian

• "With All Due Respect - Remembering Our Heroes" July 12, 2012
• "Remembering The Union's First Hero - Colonel Elmer Ellsworth" May 26, 2011
• "Patriotism Is Not Dead" May 10, 2011
• Ellsworth Remembered April 29, 2011
• Ellsworth Was The First... April 20, 2011
• Ellsworth Featured in National Portrait Gallery April 13,2011
• The Italian "Feste" Part 2 August 10, 2010
• The Italian "Feste" Part 1 August 3, 2010
• And I Think to Myself…What a Wonderful World February 13, 2010
• The End of Our Beginning June 20, 2009
• Ye Olde Fire Laddies July 13, 2008
• Band of Brothers February 21, 2008 (originally published July 6, 2003)
• Mechanicville Thanksgiving December 28, 2007
• Veteran's Monument Dating - October 19, 2007
• Tracking History July 4, 2007
• Who's Famous Now? May 3, 2007
• Matchless Mechanicville May 9, 2007
• Mechanicville's Ethnic Heritage June 2006
• Mechanicville Heritage - A Thumbnail Sketch May 29, 2006
• Whose Bell Tolls For Whom? May 21, 2002
• Harnessing The Hudson December 31, 2002
• History of Catholicism in Mechanicville
  • 150 Years of Catholicism - Part I of III April 16, 2002
  • Expanding The Mission: Catholic Mechanicville 1902-1952 - Part II of III July 30, 2002
  • Past and Prologue Mechanicville Catholic History - Part III of III September 17, 2002
• West Nile? Meet "The Mother of all Viruses" November 7, 2001
• Hold That Line
• Why I Chose Mechanicville
• What's In A Name
• Caption Lemuel Roberts Forgotten Hero?
• Why Do They Call It "The Dutch Gap?"
• It Was Déjà vu All Over Again
• History of the Railroads in Mechanicville
  • Railroads - Part I of III
  • Railroads - Part II of III
  • Railroads - Part III of III
• Melting Pot or Mixing Pot? Mechanicville's Ethnic Heritage
• Follow The Yellow Brick Road
• Oh, Those Good Old Days
• Italian Celebration Plans Set
• Contidini in The New World Paese
• Good Bridges Make Good Neighbors
• How Soon They Forget! Mechanicville's 'Unsung' Star
• Knitting the Past Together
• How the Irish Discovered Mechanicville, if not America
• Wondering About the Irish
• With Apologies to the Schaghticokes
• You Can Count On It
• Remembering Mississippi Jenkins
• "Ocolika" - Riverside
• "The Greatest Generation" Lives Here Too!
• President Visits
• History of the paper industry in Mechanicville
  • Paper City - Part I of III
  • Paper City - Part II of III
  • Paper City - Part III of III
• Cyclone-Hurricane Visits this City
• Uncovering The Past
• The Name Game
• Seeing the Light
• " ... And Then There Was One"
• Who Killed Capt Bratt
• The Fort Family Photographs 1897-1900