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paulisded · 1 year ago

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The Ledge #575: Second Quarter Recap

With tonight's show being the last broadcast of June, and especially as it is also the last day of the month, it's pretty clear that it needed to be a second quarter recap. There's over two hours of great music that has come out in the last three months, similar to the first quarter recap show of March 31.

The material ranges from the fantastic power pop of Paint Fumes and Jagger Holly to veteran rockers such as Ian Hunter and The Waco Brothers. There's some rootsy rock and roll from Tommy Stinson, Deer Tick and The Baseball Project. The music comes from not only the usual US, UK, and Canadian artists but also from Australia, Austria, France, and Germany.

As for this week's "52 weeks of Teenage Kicks" series, I have a very special cover by German punkers Die Toten Hosen. Way back in the early 90s they had a fantastic covers record called Learning English, Lesson One, where they invited members of the original bands to assist them with their remakes. 2017 saw the relese of Learning English, Lesson Two that continued that format. For their version of "Teenage Kicks", they featured original Undertones guitarist Damian O'Neill! I also included the two brand new covers I had previously played over the last quarter by Jeremy Porter & The Tucos and The Waco Brothers.

As I do every week, I must again plead with y'all for more versions of "Teenage Kicks". If you are a musician, or have any contact with artists that could record their own take on the classic, please contact me!

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1. Die Toten Hosen - Teenage Kicks

2. Jeremy Porter and The Tucos - Teenage Kicks

3. The Waco Brothers - Teenage Kicks

4. He Who Cannot Be Named - Funny Farm

5. Cowboys In The Campfire - That's It

6. Tony Valentino - Try It

7. Arthur Alexander - One Life (Is All You Got)

8. Ian Hunter - Defiance

9. The Damned - Bad Weather Girl

10. The Baseball Project - The Yips

11. Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties

12. Country Westerns - Grapefruit

13. Dropkick Murphys - Gotta Get To Peekskill (feat. Violent Femmes)

14. Justine and the Unclean - You and Me Against You and Me

15. The Darts - Snake Oil

16. Bully - All I Do

17. Miesha and the Spanks - Dig Me Out

18. Cable Ties - Time for You

19. Jagger Holly - Automatic

20. Paint Fumes - Starting Over

21. sparkle*jets u.k. - No One Rides for Free

22. The On and Ons - Let Ya Hair Down!

23. The Anderson Council - Alone With You

24. The Master Plan - Second Generation Woman

25. Guardian Singles - Pit Viper

26. Pardoner - Are You Free Tonight?

27. Lone Wolf - Ready To Break

28. Crocodiles - Love Beyond The Grave

29. Single Mothers - Sad Dumb Game

30. Hamburg Ramones - Punk Rock Radio

31. The Bloodstrings - Heartache Radio

32. Graham Day And The Gaolers - A Rose Thorn (Sticking in Your Mind's Eye)

33. The Reverberations - Fly My Kite

34. Berlin Blackouts - Rabble Rousers

35. Les Lullies - Pas De Regrets

36. Mudhoney - Little Dogs

37. Thought Patrol - Indigo Girl

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1962dude420-blog · 3 years ago

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Today we remember the passing of Johnny Ramone who Died: September 15, 2004 in Los Angeles, California

John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), known professionally as Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter who was the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. He was a founding member of the band, and—along with vocalist Joey Ramone—remained a constant member throughout his entire career.

In 2009, he appeared on Time's list of "The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players". He ranked No. 8 on Spin's 2012 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and No. 28 on Rolling Stone's similarly titled 2015 list.

Alongside his music career, Johnny appeared in nearly a dozen films (including Rock 'n' Roll High School) and documentaries. He also made television appearances in such shows as The Simpsons (1F01 "Rosebud", 1993) and Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Episode 5 "Bobcat").

His autobiography, entitled Commando, was released posthumously in 2012. In the book, Ramone writes about his love of baseball and of collecting baseball cards and movie posters, particularly horror-related posters.

John William Cummings was born in Queens, New York City, on October 8, 1948, the only child of a construction worker (a steamfitter) of Irish descent. He was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, where he grew up absorbing rock music. As a teenager, Johnny played in a band called the Tangerine Puppets alongside future Ramones drummer Tamás Erdélyi (better known as Tommy Ramone). As a teenager, he was known as a "greaser", though he was later described as a tie-dye-wearing Stooges fan. He was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He also worked as a plumber with his father before the Ramones became successful, at one point attended Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill New York, and briefly attended college in Florida.

He met future bandmate Douglas Colvin, later to become Dee Dee Ramone, in the early 1970s while delivering dry cleaning. They would eat lunch together and discuss their mutual love of bands like the Stooges and MC5. Together they went to Manny's Music in New York City in January 1974, where Johnny bought a used blue Mosrite Ventures II guitar for just over $54. On the same trip, Dee Dee bought a Danelectro bass. They collaborated with future bandmate Jeffrey Hyman, later to become Joey Ramone, to form the Ramones with Richie Stern on bass. Stern left after a few rehearsals. Tommy joined the Ramones in the summer of that year after public auditions failed to produce a satisfactory drummer.

Johnny was responsible for initiating one of the major sources of animosity within the band when he began dating and later married Linda Daniele, who had previously dated Joey. Though the band remained together for years after this incident, relations between Johnny and Joey remained strained. Years later, when Joey was in the hospital dying of lymphoma, Johnny refused to telephone him. He later discussed this incident in the film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, saying an attempt at such a reunion would have been futile. He did add that he was depressed for a week after Joey's death. When pressed, he acknowledged that this was because of the bond forged by the band. In their road manager Monte Melnick's book about his time with the Ramones, Johnny is quoted as having said, "I'm not doing anything without him. I felt that was it. He was my partner. Me and him. I miss that."

Johnny was one of the few conservatives in the punk rock community and was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. He made his political affiliation known to the world in 2002 when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After thanking all who made the honor possible—clad in his trademark T-shirt, ripped blue jeans and leather jacket—he said "God bless President Bush, and God bless America". He said in an interview, when questioned on his conservatism, "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." This was evident when the band released the UK single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" in 1985; Johnny pressed for a name change, finding the title insulting to Reagan, and the song was retitled on American releases as "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" after a line from the song's chorus. In this same interview he claimed that "Punk is right wing".

Johnny's father was a strict disciplinarian. Johnny is quoted as saying: "My father would get on these tangents about how he never missed a day's work. I broke my big toe the day I had to go pitch a Little League game and he's going, 'What are you – a baby? What did I do, raise a baby? You go play.' And even though my toe was broken I had to go pitch the game anyway. It was terrible. It would always be like that. I'm glad he raised me like that but it would always be, 'What are you – sick? You're not sick. What did I raise – a baby? I never missed a day's work in my life.' Then I went to military school, and in military school, you couldn't call in sick."

Johnny's early adulthood was marked by bouts of delinquency which he stated were inexplicable at the time. "I didn't become a delinquent until I got out of high school. I had a two-year run. I'd go out and hit kids and take their money and rob everybody's pocketbooks. Just being bad every minute of the day. It was terrible. I don't know what my problem was. Things that were funny to me at the time were horrible. If I found a television set sitting in the garbage, I'd take it up to the rooftop, watch for someone walking down the block and drop it in front of them on the sidewalk. It was funny watching them see a TV set come crashing down 30 feet in front of them. To me it was hysterical, but it was also a mean and terrible thing to do. I also found a way of stopping the elevator. I could open up the door and stop the elevator. I would wait for an old lady to get in and stop the elevator. They'd be yelling and pushing the alarm, and I would keep them there. At about 20 years old, I stopped drinking and doing drugs, got a job and tried to be normal."

In 1983, Ramone was severely injured in a fight with Seth Macklin of the band Sub Zero Construction. He was saved by emergency brain surgery. This incident was said to have inspired the next album's title, Too Tough to Die. He never spoke of the incident in the following years.

Johnny Ramone married his wife Linda in 1984 at the office of the city clerk in New York City. She had originally dated Joey Ramone but left him for Johnny. Joey and Johnny continued to tour as the Ramones after this, but their relationship worsened. However, despite reports that they had stopped talking to each other altogether, Johnny talks fondly of Joey in his book Commando. In the documentary End of the Century, Johnny told how Joey's death had a profound impact on him emotionally and that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.

On September 15, 2004, Johnny Ramone died in his Los Angeles home at the age of 55, 23 days before his 56th birthday, following a five-year battle with prostate cancer. Many of his friends and musical contemporaries came to pay their respects. His wife Linda kept his ashes

#September 15 #2004 #R.I.P.#Johnny Ramone #The Ramones

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oldshowbiz · 5 years ago

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One of the biggest post-war civil rights battles played out in the world of sports. The fight to integrate Major League Baseball was largely led by the Daily Worker, the official newspaper of the Communist Party. They were the only white newspaper to frequently report on the Negro leagues. Sports writers like Lester Rodney acted as de facto scouts, advocating for Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, and Jackie Robinson to be submitted to the major leagues.

The Daily Worker frequently interviewed Jackie Robinson about race and politics, which lead to the FBI opening a file on him and monitoring his actions. Robinson defended Paul Robeson, the Communist baritone who spoke out against American racism. Robeson was considered an internal enemy by the State Department. “This is a damned shame and I don’t care who knows it,” said Robinson. “That’s not democracy. Paul Robeson is a great man and they should respect him.”

Paul Robeson was scheduled to sing in Peekskill, New York in 1949 when a violent riot erupted which was “tolerated – if not organized – by local police and FBI.” The concert was canceled as “thousands of local vigilantes closed the area, thrashing the handful of spectators who had got in.” Cars “leaving the grounds were stoned” and African-Americans “were billy-clubbed.” Some of the white mob chanted, “We’re Hitler’s boys. We’re going to get Robeson. Lynch Robeson!” That evening several crosses were lit in the hills above the fair grounds and the American Legion bragged that they had run “that [N-word] Robeson” out of town and would do so again. The Legion printed bumper stickers that said: “Wake Up America – Peekskill Did!”

After he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was pressured to testify against Robeson in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Years later, he grew to regret it. “I would reject such an invitation if offered now,” he said. “I have grown wiser and closer to painful truths about America’s destructiveness. And I do have increased respect for Paul Robeson who, over a span of twenty years, sacrificed himself, his career, and the wealth and comfort he once enjoyed because, I believe, he was sincerely trying to help his people.”

Sources: The Radical Soap Opera by David Zane Mairowitz At the Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray Press Box Red by Irwin Siber

#baseball #civil rights era #jackie robinson #Paul Robeson #CPUSA

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maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick · 3 years ago

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#Peekskill

#Election2021

Via Bill Moran for Common Council

From: Bill Moran

WHY I JOINED THE STAND UP 4 PEEKSKILL TEAM

A lot of people have asked me why I decided to enter politics. So, I thought I would tell all of you the reasons behind my decision.

For almost 25 years, I worked as a security guard for the Peekskill City School District. While working as a guard for Hillcrest Elementary School, Peekskill Middle School and Peekskill High School, I got a chance to meet kids of all ages from all walks of life and backgrounds. During my career at the Peekskill City School District, I also worked as a coach for the schools' baseball, football and track and field teams. I felt it was important to keep kids involved in sports on the field rather than let them fall victim to the streets.

I have to say that I've spent most, if not all, of my adult life dedicated to the youth of Peekskill. I volunteered as a baseball coach for the Lapolla little League. I also served as a volunteer baseball, football and basketball coach for teenagers through the Peekskill Parks and Recreation Department. One of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences I had was working as the Director for the summer Travel Camp sponsored by Peekskill Parks and Recreation. For over 20 years, I had the pleasure of taking children from 6th to 8th grade on trips all over the area. We went to various amusement parks such as Coney Island, Six Flags in Massachusetts and New Jersey, Action Park in New Jersey, and Lake Compounce in Connecticut. We also went to Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium and the Meadowlands to see many baseball and basketball games. For many of these children, it was their first time watching a professional baseball or basketball game in person. I don't know who had a better time...myself or the kids.

But, in 2021, many things changed. When I called to work again for the Peekskill Parks and Recreation Travel Camp, I was told that the funding for the program had been cut due to budget cuts. I really couldn't understand this. How could the funding for the Travel Camp have been cut when none of the program's budgeted funds for 2020 were used due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What happened to this money? But, my eyes were really opened when the City of Peekskill approved plans to rebuild the Kiley Center as a new location for the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester. Right now, there are 12 allegations of sex abuse involving an employee of the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester. How could the Peekskill Common Council allow an organization with these sex abuse allegations to take over the Kiley Center and supervise Peekskill's children? That's when I knew I could no longer stay on the sidelines. That's when I decided to join the "Stand Up 4 Peekskill" team.

As a school guard for almost 25 years, I protected Peekskill's kids. Let me assure all of you that as Common Councilman, my first duty will be to protect Peekskill's children once again.

If the young people of Peekskill are threatened or at risk, then Peekskill does not have a future.

I hope all of you will support me and my fellow candidates on the Stand Up 4 Peekskill team!!

For Mayor - Emiliano Perez

For Common Council - Leesther Brown, Bill Moran and Ken Gilleo

Between now and Election Day, November 2, 2021, vote Row B or Row C straight across.

Remember...Peekskill's Future Depends On Your Vote!!

#peekskill ny #peekskill new york #peekskill n.y.#city of peekskill #hudson valley #hudson valley ny #city of peekskill new york #westchester #election 2021 #election

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yourjagmohanjaggu-blog · 7 years ago

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Paul Robeson was a famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world. He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in the United States, and Black people were being lynched by racist mobs, especially in the South.

Born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children. His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University, and his mother came from an abolitionist Quaker family. Robeson's family knew both hardship and the determination to rise above it. His own life was no less challenging.

In 1915, Paul Robeson won a four-year academic scholarship to Rutgers University. Despite violence and racism from teammates, he won 15 varsity letters in sports (baseball, basketball, track) and was twice named to the All-American Football Team. He received the Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year, belonged to the Cap & Skull Honor Society, and graduated as Valedictorian. However, it wasn't until 1995, 19 years after his death, that Paul Robeson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

At Columbia Law School (1919-1923), Robeson met and married Eslanda Cordoza Goode, who was to become the first Black woman to head a pathology laboratory. He took a job with a law firm, but left when a white secretary refused to take dictation from him. He left the practice of law to use his artistic talents in theater and music to promote African and African-American history and culture.

In London, Robeson earned international acclaim for his lead role in Othello, for which he won the Donaldson Award for Best Acting Performance (1944), and performed in Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings. He is known for changing the lines of the Showboat song "Old Man River" from the meek "...I'm tired of livin' and 'feared of dyin'....," to a declaration of resistance, "... I must keep fightin' until I'm dying....". His 11 films included Body and Soul (1924), Jericho (1937), and Proud Valley (1939). Robeson's travels taught him that racism was not as virulent in Europe as in the U.S. At home, it was difficult to find restaurants that would serve him, theaters in New York would only seat Blacks in the upper balconies, and his performances were often surrounded with threats or outright harassment. In London, on the other hand, Robeson's opening night performance of Emperor Jones brought the audience to its feet with cheers for twelve encores.

Paul Robeson used his deep baritone voice to promote Black spirituals, to share the cultures of other countries, and to benefit the labor and social movements of his time. He sang for peace and justice in 25 languages throughout the U.S., Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa. Robeson became known as a citizen of the world, equally comfortable with the people of Moscow, Nairobi, and Harlem. Among his friends were future African leader Jomo Kenyatta, India's Nehru, historian Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, anarchist Emma Goldman, and writers James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. In 1933, Robeson donated the proceeds of All God's Chillun to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler's Germany. At a 1937 rally for the anti-fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War, he declared, "The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative." In New York in 1939, he premiered in Earl Robinson's Ballad for Americans, a cantata celebrating the multi-ethnic, multi-racial face of America. It was greeted with the largest audience response since Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds."

During the 1940s, Robeson continued to perform and to speak out against racism, in support of labor, and for peace. He was a champion of working people and organized labor. He spoke and performed at strike rallies, conferences, and labor festivals worldwide. As a passionate believer in international cooperation, Robeson protested the growing Cold War and worked tirelessly for friendship and respect between the U.S. and the USSR. In 1945, he headed an organization that challenged President Truman to support an anti-lynching law. In the late 1940s, when dissent was scarcely tolerated in the U.S., Robeson openly questioned why African Americans should fight in the army of a government that tolerated racism. Because of his outspokenness, he was accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) of being a Communist. Robeson saw this as an attack on the democratic rights of everyone who worked for international friendship and for equality. The accusation nearly ended his career. Eighty of his concerts were canceled, and in 1949 two interracial outdoor concerts in Peekskill, N.Y. were attacked by racist mobs while state police stood by. Robeson responded, "I'm going to sing wherever the people want me to sing...and I won't be frightened by crosses burning in Peekskill or anywhere else."

In 1950, the U.S. revoked Robeson's passport, leading to an eight-year battle to resecure it and to travel again. During those years, Robeson studied Chinese, met with Albert Einstein to discuss the prospects for world peace, published his autobiography, Here I Stand, and sang at Carnegie Hall. Two major labor-related events took place during this time. In 1952 and 1953, he held two concerts at Peace Arch Park on the U.S.-Canadian border, singing to 30-40,000 people in both countries. In 1957, he made a transatlantic radiophone broadcast from New York to coal miners in Wales. In 1960, Robeson made his last concert tour to New Zealand and Australia. In ill health, Paul Robeson retired from public life in 1963. He died on January 23, 1976, at age 77, in Philadelphia.

#Paul Robeson

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drinkhv · 5 years ago

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DRINKING HV THIS WEEKEND ONWARD! 2/6

THIS WEEKEND!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6TH Growler & Gill in Nanuet has a Porter & Stout Tasting 6pm - 9pm! Copperfield’s in Montgomery has Trivia Night with Schilling Beer at 7pm!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7TH Cousins Ale Works in Wappingers Falls has a Collaboration Brew With Twisted Intentions Brewing Company Brew Day 2pm - 5pm!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH BREWMAGEDDON 2020: The Northeast Invitational Brewers Festival is at Frog Alley Brewing Co. in Schenectady 2pm - 6pm!

ONWARD!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12TH Birdsall House in Peekskill has An Evening w/ Hudson Valley Brewery 7pm - 12am! The City Beer Hall in Albany hosts Saranac Brewing Beer Hall Bingo 8pm - 10pm! Scotchtown Craft Bar & Kitchen in Middletown has a KCBC Trivia Tap Takeover at 7pm!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13TH Uno Pizzeria & Grill in Central Valley hosts Sarene Beverages Trivia Night at 7pm! Growler & Gill in Nanuet has a Brewdog Tasting 6pm - 9pm!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH DeCicco & Sons in Brewster has a Beer Our Valentine event 5pm - 10pm! The Ruck in Troy hosts I <3 Animals Vegan VDay Beer Dinner! feat. Threes Brewing 6:30pm - 9:30pm!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19TH The Olde Village Inne in Nyack has Brooklyn Brewery Pint Night 7pm - 10pm!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20TH Mohawk Grill & Taproom in Scotia has an Upstate NY Launch Party with Blaze Brewing 5pm - 10pm!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21ST DeCicco & Sons in Millwood has their 7th Annual Perennial Tap Takeover 5pm - 10pm DeCicco & Sons in Larchmont presents BQE Series: Grimm & Evil Twin 5pm - 9pm!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22ND Yonkers Brewing has their 5th Anniversary Party 12pm - 11pm!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27TH Growler & Gill in Nanuet has an Allagash Tasting 6pm - 9pm!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29TH The City Beer Hall in Albany has a Farmhouse Beer Dinner w/ Suarez & Plan Bee 6pm - 10pm! Great Life Brewing in Kingston has a Bourbon Barrel Aged Grrrreat Scot Release 5pm - 10pm!

THURSDAY MARCH 5TH Growler & Gill in Nanuet has a Duclaw Tasting 6pm - 9pm!

FRIDAY MARCH 6TH Mohawk Grill & Taproom in Scotia has a New England brewing Co. Tap Takeover 5pm - 11pm!

SATURDAY MARCH 7TH A Beer in Time at #9 is at The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie 3pm - 5pm!

SATURDAY MARCH 14TH The Lucky Hops Craft Beer Festival is at Revel 32 in Poughkeepsie 1pm - 6pm! A Beer Fest is at the Westchester County Center at 4pm!

SUNDAY MARCH 15TH Crossroads Brewing Company in Athens hosts the Annual Brewers 4 Baseball Fundraiser for CA Little League 12pm - 4:30pm!

SATURDAY MARCH 21ST Industrial Arts Brewing Co. in Garnerville has an ASL Interpreted Tour & Tasting Room Service 3pm - 5pm! SATURDAY JUNE 6TH The Lower Hudson Valley Craft Beer Festival is in Nanuet!

WEDNESDAY MARCH 25TH Dutch Ale House in Saugerties has a Beer Pairing Dinner with Captain Lawrence Brewing 6:30pm - 9pm!

THURSDAY APRIL 2ND Growler & Gill in Nanuet has a Maine Brewery Tasting 6pm - 9pm!

THURSDAY APRIL 9TH Growler & Gill in Nanuet has a Ommegang Tasting 6pm - 9pm!

SATURDAY APRIL 25TH Industrial Arts Brewing Co. in Garnerville has an ASL Interpreted Tour & Tasting Room Service 3pm - 5pm!

SATURDAY JUNE 6TH The Lower Hudson Valley Craft Beer Festival is in Nanuet!

SATURDAY JUNE 27TH The City Squire in Schenectady hosts their 1st Annual Block Party 3pm - 10pm!

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halfpinthistorianblog · 4 years ago

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June Historical Happenings in New York State

June 1, 1778—Cobleskill, NY destroyed by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military leader, during the American Revolution.

June 1, 1797 – Convention between the State of New York and the Oneida Indians.

June 1, 1889—General Electric’s famous electrical engineer, Charles Steinmetz, arrives in US from Germany

June 2, 1980—Two-time Olympic gold medalists soccer player Abby Wambach is born in Rochester, NY.

June 2, 1935—Babe Ruth retires

June 3, 1621—The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherland (now New York).

June 3, 1925—Actor Tony Curtis was born in the Bronx, NY.

June 3, 1968 --Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in his studio, known as The Factory.

June 4, 1876—An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left new York City.

June 5, 19689—New York Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated

June 6, 1946—The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.

June 7, 1905—James Braddock, the boxer of Irish heritage known as “Cinderella Man”, is born in New York City.

June 7, 1939 – Macy’s Department Store retail workers strike, Herald Square.

June 8, 1786—In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time.

June 8, 1925—Former First Lady of the United States Barbara Bush was born in New York City

June 8, 1969—The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's number (7).

June 8, 2001—Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.

June 9, 1909—Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.

June 9, 1942—New York Senator Neil Breslin is born in Albany, NY.

June 10, 1822—John Jacob Astor III, businessman and philanthropist, is born in New York City

June 10, 1915—The first showing of a 3-D film before a paying audience takes place at the Astor Theater in NYC

June 10, 1959—54th New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is born in the Bronx, NY.

June 11, 1785—The first Catholic Church in NYC is incorporated, becomes St. Peter’s.

June 11, 1825—The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.

June 12, 1665—England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).

June 12, 1939—Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated at Cooperstown

June 12, 1943 – A little before midnight, a German submarine lands off Amagansett, Long Island [see June 13, 1943]

June 13, 1927—Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

June 13, 1942—The Six Nations of the Iroquois declare war on the Axis powers, asserting its right as an independent sovereign nation to do so. This proclamation authoritatively allowed Iroquois men to enlist and fight in World War II on the side of the Allied powers.

June 13, 1943—German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured.

June 13, 1963—Actress Lisa Vidal, known for her roles in “The Division” and “ER” was born in New York City.

June 13, 1971—The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.

June 14, 1994—The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks. It was the first time the Rangers had won the cup in 54 years.

June 15, 1863—Secretary of War Edwin Stanton telegraphed New York Governor Horatio Seymour requesting state militia troops to repel the foreseen Confederate invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania.

June 15, 1904—General Slocum disaster claims 1,200 lives.

June 15, 1951—First episode of I Love Lucy airs

June 15, 1932—Mario Cuomo, 52nd Governor of New York,, is born in Queens, NY.

June 16, 1857—New York City Police Riot occurred between the recently dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly formed Metropolitan Police.

June 16, 1911—Incorporation of the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, forerunner of IBM, in Endicott

June 17, 1778—Springfield (in Otsego County, NY) is destroyed by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military leader.

June 17, 1885—The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

June 17, 1941--WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.

June 17, 1916 -- official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection in Brooklyn, NY. 2,000 deaths in NYC that year.

June 18, 1861—The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY.

June 19, 1754—Albany Congress meets to form a plan of union

June 19, 1903—Baseball great Henry Louis “Lou” Gehrig of the New York Yankees is born in Yorkville, New York City.

June 19, 1940—Shirley Muldowney, the first female drag racer, was born in Burlington, VT but grew up in Schenectady, NY. She was the first female to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association to drive a Top Fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles. She has won a total of 18 NHRA national events.

June 19, 1949—Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg at Sing Sing Prison in NY.

June 20, 2012 – Fur District strike, NYC.

June 21, 1882—Artist Rockwell Kent is born in Tarrytown.

June 22, 1611—English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.

June 22, 1939—The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.

June 23, 1819—Washington Irving publishes “Rip Van Winkle”

June 24, 1954—53rd Governor of New York George Pataki is born in Peekskill, NY.

June 24, 1962—The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.

June 24, 2004—The death penalty was ruled unconstitutional in New York.

June 25, 1887—George Abbott, acclaimed theater producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer was born in Forestville, NY

June 25, 1906—Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premiere of Mamzelle Champagne in New York. The ensuing trial was called “Trial of the Century.”

June 25, 1951—In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TVs at the time.

June 25, 1954—Sonia Sotomayor, the third woman and the first Hispanic to sit on the bench of the United States Supreme Court is born in the Bronx.

June 25, 1985—New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team’s bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.

June 26, 1819—Abner Doubleday is born in Ballston Spa, NY.

June 26, 1819—WK Clarkson Jr. of New York obtained a patent for the first velocipede (bicycle).

June 26, 1880 – New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (in Geneva NY) was established in law.

April 23, 1933 – Formation of the Chinese Hand-Laundry Alliance, Mott St.

June 26, 1959—St. Lawrence Seaway opens

June 26, 1880 – New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (in Geneva NY) was established in law.June 27, 1847—New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires

June 27, 1893—The New York stock market crashed; by the end of the year, 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business

June 27, 1929—Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures

June 27, 1942—The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine off the coast of Long Island, NY

June 27, 1949—Fashion designer Vera Wang is born in NYC.

June 27, 1959—The play “West Side Story” with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 734 performances on Broadway.

June 27, 1967—200 people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY

June 28, 1920—The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY is officially established as a Roman Catholic college for women with a liberal arts curriculum.

June 26-28, 1928—Al Smith becomes the first Roman Catholic to be nominated by a major political party for US President

June 28, 1926—Film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, Mel Brooks, known for “History of the World: Part One” and “Blazing Saddles”, is born in Brooklyn, NY.

June 28, 1969—The Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, occurs.

June 28, 1969—Actress Tichina Arnold, known for her roles in the TV sitcom “Martin” and the CW show “Everybody Hates Chris” is born in Queens, NY.

June 29, 1987—The Yankees blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Don Mattingly also grand slams

June 30, 1859—The “Great Blondin,” Jean Francois Gravelot, is the first tightrope walker to cross Niagara Falls

June 30, 1959—Actor Vincent D’Onofrio, known for many roles including his role as Detective Robert Goren in “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, is born in Brooklyn, NY.

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In April 1949, just as the Cold War was beginning to intensify, actor, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson traveled to France to attend the Soviet Union-sponsored Paris Peace Conference. After singing “Joe Hill,” the famous ballad about a Swedish-born union activist falsely accused and convicted of murder and executed in Utah in 1915, Robeson addressed the audience and began speaking extemporaneously, as he often did, about the lives of black people in the United States. Robeson’s main point was that World War III was not inevitable, as many Americans did not want war with the Soviet Union.

Before he took the stage, however, his speech had somehow already been transcribed and dispatched back to the United States by the Associated Press. By the following day, editorialists and politicians had branded Robeson a communist traitor for insinuating that black Americans would not fight in a war against the Soviet Union. Historians would later discover that Robeson had been misquoted, but the damage had been almost instantly done. And because he was out of the country, the singer was unaware of the firestorm brewing back home over the speech. It was the beginning of the end for Robeson, who would soon be declared “the Kremlin’s voice of America” by a witness at hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Committee chair John Wood, a Georgia Democrat, summoned baseball great Jackie Robinson to Washington. Robinson, appearing reluctantly, denounced Robeson’s views and assured the country that the singer did not speak on behalf of black Americans. Robeson’s passport was soon revoked, and 85 of his planned concerts in the United States were canceled. Some in the press were calling for his execution. Later that summer, in civil rights-friendly Westchester County, New York, at the one concert that was not canceled, anti-communist groups and Ku Klux Klan types hurled racial epithets, attacked concertgoers with baseball bats and rocks and burned Robeson in effigy. A man who had exemplified American upward mobility had suddenly become public enemy number one. Not even the leading black spokesmen of the day, whose causes Robeson had championed at great personal cost, felt safe enough to stand by the man dubbed as the “Black Stalin” during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and ’50s.

Paul Leroy Robeson was born in 1898, the son of a runaway slave, William Drew Robeson. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where he gained fame as one of the greatest football players ever, earning back-to-back first-team All-America honors in 1917 and 1918 at Rutgers University. But Robeson was a scholar as well. A member of the Rutgers honor society, Cap and Skull, he was chosen as valedictorian of his class, and after earning his bachelor’s degree, he worked his way through Columbia Law School while playing professional football. Although he had a brief stint at a New York law firm after graduating, Robeson’s voice brought him public acclaim. Soon he was starring on Broadway, as well as on the greatest stages around the world, in plays such as Shakespeare’s Othello and the Gershwin brothers’ Porgy and Bess. His resonant bass-baritone voice made him a recording star as well, and by the 1930s, he became a box office sensation in the film Show Boat with his stirring rendition of “Ol Man River.”

Yet Robeson, who traveled the world and was purported to speak more than a dozen languages, became increasingly active in the rights of exploited workers, particularly blacks in the South, and he associated himself with communist causes from Africa to the Soviet Union. After a visit to Eastern Europe in 1934, where he was nearly attacked by Nazis in Germany, Robeson experienced nothing but adulation and respect in the USSR—a nation he believed did not harbor any resentment or racial animosity toward blacks. “Here, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life,” he said. “I walk in full human dignity.”

When communists invited him to the stage at the Paris Peace Congress, Robeson was urged to say a few words after an enthusiastic crowd heard him sing. French transcripts of the speech obtained by Robeson’s biographer Martin Duberman indicate that Robeson said, ”We in America do not forget that it is on the backs of the poor whites of Europe…and on the backs of millions of black people the wealth of America has been acquired. And we are resolved that it shall be distributed in an equitable manner among all of our children and we don’t want any hysterical stupidity about our participating in a war against anybody no matter whom. We are determined to fight for peace. We do not wish to fight the Soviet Union. ”

Lansing Warren, a correspondent covering the conference for the New York Times, reported a similar promise for peace in his dispatch for the newspaper, relegating Robeson’s comments toward the end of his story. But the Associated Press’s version of Robeson’s remarks read: “It is unthinkable that American Negros would go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations against the Soviet Union which in one generation has lifted our people to full human dignity.” (The source of that transcript remains unknown; the singer’s son Paul Robeson Jr. has said that because it was filed before his father actually spoke, the anonymous AP correspondent might have cobbled it together from remarks his father had previously made in Europe.)

By the next day, the press was reporting that Robeson was a traitor. According to Robeson Jr., his father had “no idea really that this was going on till they called him from New York and said, hey, you’d better say something, that you’re in immense trouble here in the United States.” Instead, Robeson continued his tour, deciding to address the “out of context” quotes when he returned, unaware of how much damage the AP account was doing to his reputation.

Unbeknownst to Robeson, Roy Wilkins and Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) were pressured by the U.S. State Department to issue a formal response to the singer’s purported comments. The NAACP, always wary of being linked in any way to communists, dissociated itself from Robeson. Channing Tobias, a member of the NAACP board of directors, called him “an ingrate.” Three months later, on July 18, 1949, Jackie Robinson was brought to Washington, D.C., to testify before HUAC for the purpose of obliterating Robeson’s leadership role in the American black community. The Brooklyn Dodgers’ second baseman assured Americans that Robeson did not speak for all blacks with his “silly” personal views. Everyone from conservatives to Eleanor Roosevelt criticized the singer. The former first lady and civil rights activist noted, “Mr. Robeson does his people great harm in trying to line them up on the Communist side of political picture. Jackie Robinson helps them greatly by his forthright statements.”

For Robeson, the criticism was piercing, especially coming from the baseball star. It was, after all, Robeson who was one of Jackie Robinson’s strongest advocates, and the singer once urged a boycott of Yankee Stadium because baseball was not integrated. Newspapers across the country praised Robinson’s testimony; one called it “four hits and no errors” for America. But lost in the reporting was the fact that Robinson did not pass up the chance to land a subtle dig at the communist hysteria that underlay the HUAC hearings. The committee chairs—including known Klan sympathizers Martin Dies Jr. of Texas and John Rankin of Mississippi—could not have been all smiles as Robinson finished speaking.

In a carefully worded statement, prepared with the help of Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey, Robinson said, “The fact that because it is a communist who denounces injustice in the courts, police brutality and lynching, when it happens, doesn’t change the truth of his charges.” Racial discrimination, Robinson said, is not “a creation of communist imagination.”

For his part, Robeson refused to be drawn into a personal feud with Robinson because “to do that, would be exactly what the other group wants us to do.” But the backlash against Robeson was immediate. His blacklisting and the revocation of his passport rendered him unable to work or travel, and he saw his yearly income drop from more than $150,000 to less than $3,000. In August 1949, he managed to book a concert in Peekskill, New York, but anti-civil rights factions within the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars caused a riot, injuring hundreds, thirteen of them seriously. One famous photograph from the riot pictured a highly decorated black World War I aviator being beaten by police and a state trooper. The press largely blamed communist agitators for provoking anti-American fervor.

Robeson’s name was stricken from the college All-America football teams. Newsreel footage of him was destroyed, recordings were erased and there was a clear effort in the media to avoid any mention of his name. Years later, he was brought before HUAC and asked to identify members of the Communist Party and to admit to his own membership. Robeson reminded the committee that he was a lawyer and that the Communist Party was a legal party in the United States; then he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. He closed his testimony by saying, “You gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”

Toward the end of his life, Jackie Robinson had a chance to reflect on the incident and his invitation to testify before HUAC. He wrote in his autobiography, “I would reject such an invitation if offered now…. I have grown wiser and closer to the painful truths about America’s destructiveness. And I do have increased respect for Paul Robeson who, over the span of twenty years, sacrificed himself, his career and the wealth and comfort he once enjoyed because, I believe, he was sincerely trying to help his people.”

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