This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 19

If You Want To Talk By Radio Simply Call Long Distance, Freeman’s Journal, January 19, 1927, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 18

Short Items of Interest Gathered From Our Exchanges, Telling of What Other People Are Talking About on January 18, 1917, Cobleskill, NY.

Keene, Sullivan, among those who played Little Falls

Two of the famous people who performed in plays in Little Falls were the noted actress Laura Keene, and John L. Sullivan, the heavyweight boxing champion.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 16

Home Matters column from the Utica Daily Observer edition issued on January 16, 1874, Utica, Oneida County, New York.

This day in history: January 15

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America’s most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 14

Local Record, Locals In Brief, column from the January 14, 1897, Fulton County Republican, Johnstown, Fulton County, New York.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 13

Built at a cost of over $100,000, the fully equipped building is dedicated for the benefit of men and women of Little Falls irrespective of creed.

This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 9

This day in Mohawk Valley History from Days of Old recalled by Items Clipped from The Star Files, The Oneonta Star, January 9. 1924.

The Code of Handsome Lake

This week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with “In the Shadow of Serpents: The Code of Handsome Lake”