Much of the history of New York's scenic Mohawk Valley has been recounted time and again. But so many other stories have remained buried, almost lost from memory. The man called the baseball oracle correctly predicted the outcome of twenty-one major-league games. Mrs. Bennett, a friend of Governor Thomas Dewey, owned the Tower restaurant and lived in the unique Cranesville building. An Amsterdam sailor cheated death onboard a stricken submarine. Not only people but once-loved places are also all but forgotten, like the twentieth-century Mohawk Indian encampment and Camp Agaming in the Adirondacks, where Kirk Douglas was a counselor. Local historian Bob Cudmore delves deep into the region's history to find its most fascinating pieces of hidden history. Anne DeGroff, Amsterdam "Read until I fell asleep last night. Have already learned so much I didn't know and I am not that far into it! into it. Thank you for writing such an interesting book about the place where we live." Emil Suda, Amsterdam, "Simply incredible! Those photos from John Collier are superb...they truly make the book shine in a positive light. Wonderful work." Many of the tales in this book could be called "kitchen table history." Stories such as the one about the baseball oracle, or life in a local orphanage or how a great uncle died in a plane crash are told to younger family members as the elders reminisce at the kitchen table. And when somebody like me shows up to write things down, families frequently invite me to sit at the kitchen room table to talk and look at old newspaper clippings and photographs. Bob Cudmore has written a weekly newspaper column on Mohawk Valley history for the Daily Gazette for over a dozen years. A former adjunct instructor in mass media at Albany's College of St. Rose, Cudmore worked in public relations for the State University of New York from 1993 to 2001. He has an MA and BA in English from Boston University. A radio and television personality, Cudmore began hosting the morning show on Lite 104.7/1570 AM WVTL radio in Amsterdam in 2004. He lives with his family in Glenville.