2 40 755 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cookbooks Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Official Guinness Cookbook Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/26/2021 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Insight Editions Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Raoul Goff Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Caroline Hennesy Subject The topic of the resource Cooking with Guinness beer Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Insight Editions Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hardcover, 143 pages Type The nature or genre of the resource Cookbook Abstract A summary of the resource. This cookbook includes over 70 recipes, including the iconic stouts, ales, and lagers of Guinness beer. Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Introduction All about Guinness Guinness and food The recipes Appetizers and shareables On the side Entrées Desserts and baking Cocktails Glossary Measurement conversion tables Index Acknowledgments About the author Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 10/26/2021 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 10/26/2021 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. 2021 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Hennessy, Caroline, and Evi Abeler. The official Guinness Cookbook: Over 70 recipes for cooking and baking from Ireland’s famous brewery. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2021. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. 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Title A name given to the resource Fading of Light Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Heaney, Sean Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photography Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Celella, Jessica Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 19/4/2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Music Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Celella, Jessica Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Photograph Celella MDOCS music night Principles of Documentary Skidmore College Spring 2018 This Place Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Krystle Nowhitney Hernandez Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ceyla Guadalupe Macedo Soto Title A name given to the resource Reflejo del Kiosco/The Kiosk’s Reflection Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Ceyla Guadalupe Macedo Soto_2017_1.jpg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Subject The topic of the resource Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY Description An account of the resource El reflejo en el agua aprecia tu apariencia física, si te tomas el tiempo para mirar con más detenimiento te darás cuenta que, todo interior contiene riquezas que a simple vista no puedes apreciar. The reflection in the water appreciates your physical appearance, if you take the time to look more closely you will realize that, everything within contains riches that cannot be appreciated with the naked eye. License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Photograph, JPEG art bilingual Estamos Aqui immigration Latinx race track Saratoga Race Course Spanish Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Krystle Nowhitney Hernandez Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ceyla Guadalupe Macedo Soto Title A name given to the resource Oficina/Office Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Ceyla Guadalupe Macedo Soto_2017_2.jpg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Subject The topic of the resource Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, NY Description An account of the resource Sin tanto que agregar. Tan solo con luz y sombra puedes sentir la paz y tranquilad de las personas que trabajan en este lugar para apoyarnos y enseñarnos más. Without much to add. With just light and shadow you can feel the peace and tranquility of the people who work in this place to support and teach us more. License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. 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Zack Kouli Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 9 May 2021 URL https://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/53868.html Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geology of Saratoga Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown Description An account of the resource The "great" falls of the Mohawk River - nearby is site of discovery of Cohoes mastodon. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource City of Cohoes https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/08e170e80fda767553ee399f81019e85.jpg e995a4b589aca1d5b70177c38a116c26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga County Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Grace Beneke Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 7 May, 2021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Solomon Northup Marker Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Historical Marker Data Base, <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=50385">https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=50385</a> Description An account of the resource Historical marker commemorating Solomon Northup, an African American man who was taken captive and became a slave. Photograph by Howard C. Ohlhous, October 10, 2011 Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource historical marker Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1999 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource City of Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Northup, Solomon Abolition Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/8e5c059208179ea95d7dd0e5787f9f22.png 74ade5793ac7deac0b4e1f3043d09404 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga County Website A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ). Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data website Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Miles Herman Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 5/7/2021 Date Depicted (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the content date field that will display. 2020-2021 Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. 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COVID-19 Resources - City of Saratoga Springs - testing sites - vaccination news - mental health support - NY travel advisory - school openings - small business grant program - COVID-19 Emergency Housing Assistance Program Local URL The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website URL:<a href="http://www.saratoga-springs.org/2528/COVID-19-DATA-FAQS"> http://www.saratoga-springs.org/2528/COVID-19-DATA-FAQS</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource City of Saratoga Springs COVID-19 Resources Home Page Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-2021 Description An account of the resource This is the resources pages for residents of the city of Saratoga Springs to get updates about the pandemic, including information about mask mandates, local resources and school openings. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource City of Saratoga Springs government Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available City of Saratoga Springs government https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/68be475b45666ba7c101a81b3516ef8d.png 1cffb88450f2a53b4961c713bd3a93ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data color photograph Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 5/6/2021 Date Depicted (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the content date field that will display. 2020 Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. This includes information about items or events that are larger than just the map itself; for example, information about cartographers, a description of the map's historical significance (for example, "This is the first printed map of Saratoga Springs"), notes on the laws leading to a map's creation, descriptions of changes in state or county lines, information about the organization that created the map, how often maps were updated, and information about the map's creation and publication. Many State Archives maps have historical information in the catalog record -- that should be captured in this field. coronavirus - Covid-19 - pandemic - mask - health initiative - New York State Guidelines - business - restaurant URL https://www.facebook.com/ssnygov/posts/mask-up-saratoga-springs-here-in-saratoga-springs-we-take-our-health-and-yours-s/3363732210414670/ Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Miles Herman Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Mask Up Saratoga Springs" Poster Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. City of Saratoga Springs, NY Description An account of the resource This is an example of the numerous posters displayed throughout Saratoga Springs to encourage people to wear masks in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. The wearing of masks and social distancing was part of the Saratoga's initiative to reduce covid cases.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource City of Saratoga Springs, NY https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/958441f436c8d73d779bd6a60997213a.jpg 143c139f1e48aa7185ae2dc4a739a6ca https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/516730e0f7f77e0b09b15ee024d501c4.m4a 503aedc03c87c750272724526b7bdb4a https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/410dc76737a349cc3b55d44b0fc7f6c6.m4a 69cb76297528d5b00b219bf1c00280ff https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/8205096cf774cf5ba82bb170968ceb6c.m4a 962843fc1926ebfecb00979311834fb3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral History Description An account of the resource Many people who have worked or studied at Skidmore College or lived in Saratoga Springs or the surrounding area carry the memories that help us tell the stories of our communities. This collection offers a glimpse into our past in the voices of those who have shared their stories. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Claire Fink Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Odette Ireland Location The location of the interview Skidmore College and Saratoga Senior Center [Zoom] Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2 Hours Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Claire Fink Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 06/11/2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Odette Ireland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 6, 2020 Description An account of the resource In this oral history , Ms. Odette Ireland recalls memories including the time during World War II her home was occupied by French soldiers, when she first met her husband, and raising a family. Language A language of the resource English (EN) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Claire Fink Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Claire Fink, Odette Ireland and Elayne Ireland Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Skidmore. College family France oral history fall 2020 preserving our past saratoga senior center World War II https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/90a510c707aebe80af8fd724e9c253ae.JPG eb80eda24068062ba36cf005b3e2d4c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Vonnie Estes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/01/2016 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clara-Sophia Daly https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/2da702f6bbad7209be00cc4cd0a0c6eb.mp3 32207a5305495d412280d86899595e9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Flurry Festival Description An account of the resource The Flurry Festival is a three day music and dance Festival that takes place in Saratoga Springs in February. The festival holds workshops, performances, dances, and jam sessions in the city center and throughout the town. The Flurry first started as a dance festival for contra dancing but has expanded to musicians and spans all genres of music and dance as well as encompassing family friendly events such as storytelling. Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource The Flurry Festival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jennifer Davies, Clara-Sophia Daly, Dustin Foote, Amanda Muir, Tess Olcott, Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Clara-Sophia Daly Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Vonnie Estes Location The location of the interview Lucy Scribner Library, Room 127, Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs NY Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Digital audio recording Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 53 minutes Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Clara-Sophia Daly Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 06/12/2016 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Vonnie Estes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/01/2016 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available DS113A: Storytelling Interviewing, Skidmore College Description An account of the resource Interview with Vonnie Estes, musician, dancer, and volunteer at The Flurry Festival, a three-day music and dance festival in Saratoga Springs, NY. Estes speaks about growing up, her evolution as a piano player, the history of The Flurry Festival, and her influence over many folk music events around the Northeast. Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clara-Sophia Daly Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 12/02/2016 Abstract A summary of the resource. 00:0:26 Header 00:0 20 Explanation of The Flurry Festival and types of music there. 00:1:30 Vonnie Estes. Born in Syracuse New York October 12 1953. Grew up in Fabias New York. Played Piano as a child and took private lessons in school. 00:5:22 Volunteered at Boston Spa Historical Society. Attended first contra dance in 1978. 00:10:17 Attended first Flurry Festival Dance in Gymnasium. 00:14:36 People come back to The Flurry Festival year after year for the community. Many relationships are formed from the music and dance community. 00:18:20 Describes why it is so fun to play for dancers as opposed to jamming with other musicians in a house concert setting. 00:20:40 Young Skidmore students attend jam sessions with other local musicians. 00:23:20 Describes music sessions as “welcoming” and inclusive. 00:25:40 Explains other music groups in NY area that Vonnie Estes and husband are members of. 00:29:10 Defines what a hammer dulcimer is 00:32:26 Prefers upright piano to a keyboard. Likes the acoustic sound and tonality of a real piano. 00:35:15 Describes her job at General Electric working with digital equipment and using a genographics machine to digitize images. 00:36:16 Describes the lack of communication today in comparison with when she was young. 00:38:50 Meets volunteers at The Flurry who are also community minded. 00:41:32 Explains a typical day at The Flurry and what she does. Goes from venue to venue around Saratoga to hear music, play music, dance and volunteer. 00:42:21 Added three extra hours to schedule for The Flurry Festival in 2016. 00:42:46 Describes husbands responsibilities in relation the The Flurry. 00:45:40 Calls her husband “tall, dark and handsome” and “a good dancer”. 00:46:36 Losing Saratoga Music Hall as a venue. Talks about new venue possibilities for The Flurry. 00:49:05 Describes contra dancing as easy. You only have to know “your right from your left hand and walk up and down” 00:49:38 Explains what a “figure” is in terms of square dancing. 00:50:04 Talks about how contra dances used to be segregated by gender, but now are not. Used to be called “proper” dances, now they are “improper” - meaning that it is mixed woman and men and not separate. Notable change in contra dance. 00:51:29 When asked about politics in this country as a whole: “We’re in trouble coming up” “I didn’t vote for him” 00:52:13 Invites all Skidmore students and dancers to The Flurry and to other local dances in the area. 00:52:56 Thank you from Interviewer to Interviewee. Subject The topic of the resource Saratoga Springs -- Flurry Festival -- History Contra Dance dance music oral history Piano Quebec The Flurry Festival https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/8d4966c9fa9b1ce2fe574e76d20099c3.jpg 913bd48af88dc0d108ddb491a723d37a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource New bike lanes on North Broadway officially unveiled Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/10/16 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clark, Travis Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource In September. before the weather regularly became too cool and wet - like it was Wednesday - the Department of Public Safety painted new bike lanes on North Broadway. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Saratogian EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/83611040ef458415511facac7c1bbf6a.JPG a532ca02b7bfd8e9373185e4b1d64a15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Officials: Low-income city housing necessary Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/6/88 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cloos, Paul Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Urban Renewal Description An account of the resource City Council members said they were not against low-income housing in the city. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings UrbanRenewal https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/2725b6a59d80f0e3e7afd07e0be898a5.m4a b620e55b68d82edacc500ad540ec10ae https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/7eb6d06fdef2e97afa4d8420d6210a60.pdf b7e39ef16a649ef49a88990981dd41c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral History Description An account of the resource Many people who have worked or studied at Skidmore College or lived in Saratoga Springs or the surrounding area carry the memories that help us tell the stories of our communities. This collection offers a glimpse into our past in the voices of those who have shared their stories. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Rimmele Wood, '24 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Rachel Clothier Location The location of the interview Zoom (Virtual Interview) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Audio recording (MP4) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Rachel Clothier Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2020 Description An account of the resource Rachel Clothier, Corinth Town Historian, talks about general stores in Saratoga County Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clothier, Rachel Wood, Rimmele Subject The topic of the resource Saratoga County (N.Y.) -- History Saratoga County (N.Y.) -- General Stores https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/a90cdf911c898a807f1fd7dc1ecb4796.jpeg 9b4c193c5896a1cdb32a209aa363254b https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/b0d43b5b6363539c537325330ebc6dce.jpeg 69fc13aae0e5fc82e33c1204c1c7765c https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/ca5b381108ea9b28101cb89d8d3160ff.m4a ba88612f8fd8d0bf1cca1bdf0cbdb0e1 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/6f662762fd131eea6fd87629d833d9e5.pdf d01ba86005b38220c567eb49f1acbb85 PDF Text Text February  11th,  2018   Chris  Cocchi  (interviewer)   Dave  Paterson  (interviewee)   Skidmore  College,  Scribner  Library     Christopher  Cocchi:  Ok,  testing  1,2,3.  I  think  its  working.  Ok!  So  uh,  first  thing  is  that,  uh  do  you,   just  to  go  over  uh,  verbal  consent,  uh  do  you  agree  to  what  you  signed  before  about,  you  know,   hav-­‐  lending  your  voice  to  the  uh,  Saratoga  or  Skidmore  Memory  Project  [Skidmore  Saratoga   Memory  Project  (SSMP)]  and  uh,  you  know,  letting  it  be  used  online  and  whatnot?     Dave  Paterson:  I  do.     CC:  Cool,  thank  you.  Anyway,  first  things  first  I  just  have  to  record  just  the  empty  the  noise  here   so  that  they  can  edit  it  out  so  I'm  just  gonna  be  silent  for  about  a  few  seconds  here     [Pause]     CC:  Ok,  so  for  the  record,  my  name  is  Christopher  Cocchi,  I'm  here  with  Dave  Paterson,  in  the   Skidmore  Library  in  the  Media  Viewing  room,  and  I'm  interviewing  him  for  the  Public  History  in   Skidmore  with  Professor  [Jordana]  Dym.  So  uh,  I  guess,  to  begin,  uh,  what's  uh,  just  tell  me   about  yourself,  like  uh,  when  were  you  born  or  like  where  did  you  live  growing  up?     DP:  Ok,  I  was  born  in  south  Boston-­‐   CC:  Um  hm.   DP:-­‐in  1954.   CC:  Um  hm.   DP  :  And,  uh,  I've  been  in  Saratoga  [Springs]  for  the  last  47  years.  I've  taught  for  over  30  years  at   the  [Saratoga  Springs]  high  school  here,  [as  the]  Social  Studies  department  head,  and   overlapping  15  years  at  The  University  at  Albany.  Uh,  in  the  midst  of  all  that  teaching  of  I  was   also  President  of  the  Saratoga  Springs  History  Museum,  and  for  19  years  a  friend  of  mine  and  I   have  run  a  company  called  Saratoga  Tours,  where  we  give  historic  tours  of  Saratoga  Springs.     CC:  Ok  cool.  So  uh,  what  got  you  interested  in  history  in  the  first  place?     DP:  Probably  my  8th  grade  history  teacher,  uh,  Mr.Curren  [SP?],  and  uh,  he's  the  first  one  who   made  who  made  it  more  about  how  and  why  instead  of,  memorizing    who,  what,  when,  and   where  and  dates  and  all  those,  and  uh,  I  always  liked  to  read.  And  once  I  started  reading   history,  then  I  wanted  to  read  more,  it's  like,  now  I'm  writing  for  Saratoga  Living  Magazine,  I   think  the  new,  the  new  relaunch  of  the  magazine  just  came  out  a  couple  days  ago,  and  I  have   an  article  in  there  that  I  wrote  for  them  about  the  blizzard  of  1888  when  we  got  57  inches  of   snow.  But  while  I  was  researching  that,  and  reading  up  on  that,  then  I  found  a  bunch  more   questions  I  wanted  answers  to  so  then  I  go  off  on-­‐  and  that's  the  great  thing  about  history,   you're  never  done.     �CC:  Um  hm.  That's  very  cool.  Now  uh,  where  did  you  go  after  your,  uh,  experience  in  public   school,  like  which  university  did  you  [DP  starts  speaking]  go  to  from  there?     DP:  Oh,  uh  college-­‐wise  I  was  at  the,  first  was  at  the  University  of  Miami.   CC:  Um  hm.   DP:  Uh,  I  was  playing  Baseball  also  at  the  time  so  I  left  Miami,  um  I  ended  up  getting  degrees   from  Boston  College,  uh,  University  at  Albany,  and  [  The  College  of]  Saint  Rose.     CC:  Ok  cool.  And  what  was  your  first  experience  out  of  college?     DP:  [Deep  breath]  [You]  mean  work  wise?   CC:  Yeah.   DP:  I  taught  for  half  a  year  in  Rutland,  Vermont.  I  was  the  fourth  teacher  they  had  hired,   because  the  7th  and  8th  graders  were  driving  all  the  substitute  people  crazy,  and  I  remember  I   started  in  February,  oh  I  think  1980,  and  I  get  through  the  rest  of  the  school  year  with  them,   and  a  matter  of  fact,  on  like  the  second  the  second  to  last  week  of  school,  the  assistant   superintendent  asked  me  if  I  was  available  to  come  back  an-­‐  oh-­‐  then  next  year  and  I  said  I  was.   And  he  said  they  were  going  to  give  me  like  a  "The  8th  grade  teacher  of  the  year  award"  and  I   said  oh  this  is  great,  and  then  the  next  week  I  got  laid  off!   CC:  Oh!   DP:  [Laughs]  So  I  was  going  to  go  back  to  Boston  and  open  up  a  sporting  goods  store,  and  uh,   on  my  way  down  through,  I  had  interviewed  at  Saratoga  High  School  before,  but  they  already   had  a  position  filled,  on  my  way  down-­‐  I  was  packing  up  my  car  literally,  on  the  day  I  was  going   to  go  to  Boston,  when  Saratoga  called  and  said  "we  have  an  opening,  do  you  want  to  come  up   and  interview?"  [Unsure  mumble]  I  said  ok,  I  will.  So  I  went  up,  they  hired  me,  and  I've  been   there  for  the  last  40  years.     CC:  Uh,  so,  what  was  your-­‐  what  was-­‐  wh-­‐  what  was  your  teaching  at  Saratoga  High  [School]?     DP:  Uh,  really  good.  Uh,  Saratoga  [Springs]'s  a  really  good  school  district.  Uh,  I  taught   everything  you  can  teach  in  the  Social  Studies  from  grades  7  to  12.  Every  level  of  student,  from   the  weakest  kids  we  had,  a  lot  of  kids  with  special  needs,  up  to  the  Advanced  Placement   courses,  uh  I  think  I  was  only  the  2nd  Advance  Placement  U.S.  History  teacher  in  the  county   when  we  started  that  program.  Um,  I  also  taught  in  summer  school  I  taught  phys.  ed.  [Physical   Education],  I  taught  English,  Social  Studies,  so,  but,  you  know,  all  in  all  a  terrific  experience.   Great  kids.     CC:  So,  how-­‐  did  anything  change  over  the  years  that  you  were  teaching  History  at  Saratoga   High  School?     DP:  [Deep  breath]  Well,  [pause]  that's  one  of  the  great  things  about  history,  things  do  change  as   time  goes  on,  um  the  first  kids  I  taught  in  the  1980's,  I  don't  know  if  you'll  remember  Chris  but   there  used  to  be  a  show  on  TV,  a  TV  show  in  the  80's  called  "Family  Ties".   CC:  Um  hmm.   �DP:  And  most  of  the  kids  in  the  80's  were  a  lot  like  that  Alex  P.  Keaton  character.  You  know,   they  were  the  Michael  Fox  character,  um,  very  preppy  kind  of  thing,  and  we  went  through  ph-­‐ phase  for  a  while,  but  then  we  get  into  a  phase  where  uh,  everybody  was  getting  piercings   everywhere,  and  then  we  got  into  a  phase  where  the  clothes  got  kinda  wild,  and  then  it  went   back  to  more  conservative  dress.  So  it's  kinda  been  all  over  the  place,  and  uh,  its  interesting   because  towards  the  end  of  my  career  I  noticed  I  was  teaching  a  lot  of  the  sons  and  daughters   of  kids  I  taught  30  years  before.     CC:  Did  uh  the  material  you  taught  change  at  all  or  was  it  pretty  consistent?     DP:  Well  the  tough  thing  with  History  is-­‐  and  Math  teachers  don't  understand  this-­‐  um,  there's   a  finite  amount  of  information  to  teach  in  the  AP  [Advanced  Placement]  or  Regents   [Examinations]  Math  or  Science  courses,  so  they  can  usually  schedule  their  courses  to  end,  let's   say,  mid-­‐May,  or  early  May,  which  will  give  them  to  review  for  either  the  AP  exam  or  the   Regents.  Well,  History  just  gets  added  onto  every  year.  So,  for  example  when  we  get  to  2001,   you  can't  leave  out  9/11,  that's  too  important  [of]  a  piece  of  history.  So  as  you  add  things  in,   you  have  to  edit  other  things  that  you've  been  teaching  over  time.  So,  you  figure,  when  I   started,  was  the  first  year  Reagan,  Ro-­‐Ro  Ronald  Reagan  was  president,  um  when  I  ended   [Barack]  Obama  was  president.  Well,  a  lot  changed,  and  then  you  gotta  teach  all  that.  So,  the   amount  I  had  to  teach  changed,  and  I  think  my  methods  of  teaching  changed.     CC:  Could  you  go  into  that,  like  wh-­‐wh-­‐  how  did  your  methods  change?     DP:  Well,  [Cough]  education  isn't  a  once  size  fit  all,  I  don't  think,  although  I-­‐it  does  make  me   laugh  because  [the]  New  York  Department  of  Education  continually  talks  about  differentiated   instruction,  which  is  the  idea  that  every  student  should  be  treated  differently  and  taught   according  to,  you  know,  what  they  can  do.  And  I  agree  with  that  philosophically,  [Cough]  yet   they  want  every  kid  to  sit  down  for  same  Regents  exam,  whether  you  live  in  Long  Island,  or   Brooklyn,  or  Saratoga  Springs.  And  to  me  that  is  a  little  ridiculous.  I  never  had  a  student  fail  a   state  test,  but  I  think  the  reason  for  that  is,  because  even  with  lowest  level  kids  I  taught,  I   always  treated  Social  Studies,  and  I  think  it's  true  of  any  subject  [test],  as  a  vocabulary  test.  As   long  the  kids  understand  what  the  questions  are  at  the  end  of  the  year,  they  can  answer  them.   What  happens  is  a  lot  of  teachers  think  they're  being  a  good  teacher,  what  they'll  do  something   like  this,  they'll  say,  I'll  be  teaching  a  class  and  I'll  say  "Ok,  so  were  when  the  immigrants  were   coming  into  New  York  City,  and  they  were  being  processed,  and  they  were  slowly  getting   accepted  and  they  got  jobs  in  factories,  and  they  started  to  learn  the  English  language,  and   customs  in  America,  that's  called  Assimilation."  Well  some  teachers,  thinking  they're  just  trying   to  help  the  kids,  will  just  refer  to  it  as  "fitting  in",  'cus  the  kids  will  understand  it  better.  The   problem  is  when  they  get  to  the  Regents  exam,  the  Regents  uses  the  word  "assimilation",  and  if   a  student  doesn't  associate  the  word  assimilation  with  the  immigrant  experience,  they're  not   going  to  get  the  question  right.  So  I  learned  early  on  that  vocabulary  was  an  important  part.   Also  early  on  when  I  was  teaching  it  was  a  lot  more  chalk  talk  lecturing,  as  then  as  time  when   the  technology  get  so  good  with  the  Smartboards  and  things,  I  could  work  in,  instead  of  telling   �kids  about  Martin  Luther  Kings'  [Jr.]  "I  Have  a  Dream"  speech,  I  can  play  them  a  quick  5  minute   excerpt,  I  can  show  them  an  inauguration,  um,  so  that  was  good.     CC:  Ok,  uh  do  you  have  any  like,  uh  stories  from  any  particular  incidences  [incidents]  from  your   time  in  the  [Saratoga]  high  school?     DP:  [Laughs]  Stories  relative  to  what?     CC:  I  guess  like  for  instance  like,  did  you  ever  have  like  a  student  that  like,  made  you  think  "Hey,   you  know,  this  might  be  an  interesting  way  to  teach  it  next  time."  Or  did  a  teacher  come  up  to   you  and  say  something  that  like,  made  think  of,  like...     DP:  Oh  several  times,  I  think  most  of  the  times  the  changes  I've  made  in  my  teaching  methods   over  the  years  came  from  a  feedback  I  got  from  students.  Um,  because  you  a  different  group  of   students  every  year,  and  they  come  at  things  from  a  different  perspective.  Uh,  one  of  my   favorite  students  ever  was  a  young  man  who  came  up  to  me  and  said,  he  was  very  nice,  he  was   thanking  me  for  the  course,  for  teaching  the  course,  for  teaching  the  course  and  everything,   and  then  he  said  "You  know  what  I  really  liked  a  lot  was  when  we  worked  in  groups."  And  I   hadn't  really  been  too  big  on  group  projects,  but  for  the  next  years  I  took  a  couple  of  the  units   and  I  made  them  group  projects  things,  and  all  of  them-­‐  well  not  all  of  them-­‐  most  of  the  kids   really  seem  to  like  it.  So  then  the  next  year  I  did  a  little  more  of  that,  and-­‐and  that  happened  a   few  times  in  my  career,  he's  now  a  very  successful  doctor  at  a  Mass.  General  Boston   [Massachusetts  General  Hospital  at  Boston].     CC:  Cool.  Uh,  so  what  was  like-­‐  wh-­‐what  was  life  like  living  in  Saratoga  [Springs]  at  the  time,  'cus   you  were  new  to  the  area,  correct?     DP:  Yeah  Saratoga  [Springs]  is  uh  [small  pause]  it's  an  interesting  city.  Uh  when  I  first  moved  up   here,  there  seemed  to  me  there  was  a  strong  feeling  like  Broadway  was  the  dividing  line  in  the   city.  And,  briefly  when  I  first  moved  here  I  lived  in  an  apartment  on  the  east  side  of  Broadway.   And,  but  for  most  of  the  time  I've  been  here  I  lived  in  a  house  on  the  west  side.  And  it  seemed   to  me  in  maybe  the  first  10  years  I  lived  here,  there  was  a  dividing  line  between  the  people  of   west  Saratoga  [Springs],  west  of  Broadway  and  east  of  Broadway,  and  so,  of  course  I  got  curious   and  I  started  doing  research  and  talking  to  people,  and  uh  the  [Saratoga]  High  School  used  to   be,  way  back  when,  over  where  uh,  uh  Lake  Ave.  [Avenue]  Elementary  School  is.  So  the  kids   from  [the]  West  side  of  Saratoga  [Springs]  had  a  longer  walk  than  the  kids  from  the  east  side  of   Saratoga  [Springs],  and  there  was  a  train  that  cut  the  path,  they  went  by  where  the  Price   Chopper  is,  Railroad  Place  [Aparements].  So,  the  kids  from  the  West  side  had  to  time-­‐  since   they  used  to  let  them  home  for  lunch-­‐  but  you  had  to  time  it  right  so  the  train  wasn't  holding   you  up.  Um,  and  o-­‐  and  then  the  trains  disappeared  and  all  that,  but  that  "feeling"  seemed  to   stay  with  a  lot  of  old-­‐timers.  So  that  was  interesting  to  me.  That's  now  changed,  I  don't  feel  that   now.  Saratoga  [Springs]  is  uh,  I  think-­‐  I  think  I  read  that  as  of  two  years  ago,  for  the  first  time,   there  are  now  more  people  living  in  Saratoga  [Springs]  who  weren't  born  here  than  were  born   here,  so  that's  a  big  change  in  that.  Um,  but  Saratoga  [Springs]  you  know,  you  look  at  its  over   �the  years,  it  reinvents  itself  all  the  time.  And  I  think  it's  done  that  when  the  [Saratoga]  City   Center  came  about  in  1984,  Saratoga  [Springs]  got  revitalized,  and  boy,  where  else  would  you   want  to  be  now?     CC:  Um  hm,  so,  how  do  you  think  the  people  of  Saratoga  [Springs]  changed  during  your  time   uh-­‐   DP:  The  time  I've  been  here?   CC:  Um  hm.   DP:  [Deep  breath,  pause]  Well,  I-­‐I  thought  it  was  noteworthy  that  a  couple  years  ago  Saratoga   [Springs]  get  [got]  named  the  "Friendliest  city  in  New  York",  'cus  I  think  the  people  are  very   friendly.  Um,  we're  also  very  also  very  much  Wonderbread,  in  the  sense  that  we're-­‐  like,  I  don't   know  what  we  are,  90%  Caucasian  or  something,  so  its  been  nice  to  see  an  influx  of  minorities   into  the  city  of  Saratoga  Springs,  and  uh-­‐  and  its  been  to  see  the  city  of  Saratoga  Springs  kind  of   incorporating  the  kids  or  the  students  from  Skidmore  more.  Uh,  there  was  a  time  there  were   the  community  town  and  gown  relationships  weren't  that  great.  But  I  think  the  college  has   made  an  effort  and  I  think  the  community  has  made  an  effort  to  try  and  get  closer,  and  I  think   that  helps  both  sides.     CC:  I  guess,  is  it  ok  if  you  give  an  example  of  when  times  weren't  good  between  the  community   and  the  college  and  maybe  a  more  recent  example  how  [DP  starts  speaking]  that  kinda  works   for  the  better?     DP:  Ok,  I  have  to  go  into  my  little  history  thing  here  for  you  to  do  that  Chris,  but  I  would  say   this,  there  was  a  time  not  too  long  ago,  I'm  going  to  say  the  1960s,  and  maybe  the  50s  and   maybe  even  the  70s-­‐  but  I  wasn't  here  so  I'm  not  sure,  when  every  year-­‐  'cus  in  those  days   Skidmore  was  uh-­‐  until  the  late  60s-­‐early  70s  Skidmore  was  downtown,  the  campus.  But   whenever  the  Skidmore  kids  came  to  start  a  new  school  year,  li-­‐  businesses  would  have  signs   like  "Welcome  Skidmore  Students"  and  badubub,  you  know,  and  the  whole  community  was  like   "Oh,  we're  happy  to  have  the  Skidmore  kids  back."  Well  when  I  came  here  in  1981  there  was   none  of  that.  As  a  matter  of  fact  there  was  even  some  "We  don't  want  those  Skidmore  kids   down  here,  where  you  got  to  keep  an  eye  on  them,"  and  blahblahblah.  But  now  I've  noticed  in   the  last  few  years  they're  back  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  talking  again  "Why  don't  we  put   those  signs  up  again?"  Uh,  so  that's  a  good  thing.     CC:  Ok  cool.  So,  I  know  you  mentioned  that  during  this  time  you  became  involved  with  the   [Saratoga  Springs]  History  Museum.     DP:  Yup.   CC:  How  did  that  happen?     DP:  I  think  I  got  involved  with  like  six  or  eight  groups  in  Saratoga  Springs,  but  I  became   president  of  the  [Saratoga  Springs]  History  Museum.  The  reason  was  I  was  down  there  alot,   researching  things-­‐  as  I  said  when  we  started,  as  I  get  questions  on  things  I  have  to  delve  more   into  them.  So  a  lot  of  questions  I  had,  I  always  think  the  best  way  to  teach  history  is-­‐if  I  can  get   the  kids  to  relate  to  it  from  things  that  happened  in  their  community,  then  they  can  kinda  see  it   �with  the  United  States  and  maybe  globally.  So  I  was  in  the  [Saratoga  Springs]  History  Museum   alot  doing  research,  and  at  one  point,  um,  the  director  at  the  time,  asked  me  if  I  would  be   willing  to  join  the  board.  So,  I  did,  I  joined  the  board  at  the  [Saratoga  Springs]  History  Museum,   and  I  learned  alot  from  those  people.  Many  of  them  were  old-­‐timers,  uh,  who  had  been  here   forever.  And  I  just  listened  to  them  tell  their  stories.  Fascinating.  So,  then  that  director  left,  and   I  was  one  of  the  people  in  charge  of  finding  the  new  director.  So  the  person  we  ended  up  hiring   was  Jamie  Parillo  [James  D.  Parillo],  he's  still  the  director  there  now,  young  guy,  he  had  worked   at  Saratoga  National  Battlefield  [Saratoga  Battlefield,  part  of  the  Saratoga  National  Historical   Park].  Um,  once  Jamie  came  on  board  he  brought  kind  of  a  youthful  exuberance  to  it.  As  a   matter  of  fact  we  started  a  program  where-­‐  'cus  I  said,  "We  gotta  reach  out  kids  more."  So  we   started  something  that  hadn't  been  done  before,  it  was  a  Junior  Membership,  so  that  any  kid   who  wanted  to  be  a  member  of  the  [Saratoga  Springs]  History  Museum,  basically  got  a  free   membership.  So  they  got  a  membership  card,  and  any  time  they  wanted  to  go  to  the  museum   to  check  things  out  or  research,  they  could  go  down  there.  So  I  thought  that  was  good.  Uh,   when  I  first  became  president  of  the  museum,  we  were  suffering  a  little  bit  because  uh,   financially,  cus'  we're  dependent,  the  museum  is  dependent  of  grants  and  donations,  uh  and,   uh  an  antiques  show  they  had  once  a  year.  And  they  were  struggling,  and  we  were  in  the  red,   we  were  in  debt.  And  I'm  happy  to  say  that  by  the  time  I  left  as  president  we  were  in  the  black,   we  were  showing  a  profit.  And  I  think  they  are  doing  fine  now.  Um,  so  all-­‐all  of  that  was  a  good   experience.       CC:  So  what  did  you  do  at  the  [Saratoga  Springs]  History  museum?  You  were  on  the  board-­‐   DP:  Yup.   CC:  You  helped  with  the  director  [search],  so  what  else  did  you  do  there?     DP:  Well  when-­‐  it's  easier  to  say  when  I  was  president  of  the  board,  because  when  I  was  on  the   board  I  was  doing  whatever  the  president  at  the  time  wanted  to  do  or  the  director,  and  it   wasn't  that  much.  When  I  became  president,  I  thought  to  myself,  "Saratoga  [Springs]  history  is   so  great,  there's  so  much  here."  Um,  "And  this  museum  is  so  great,  it's  the  oldest  museum  in   the  city."  So  I  had  every  member  of  the  board  pick  a  month  of  the  year,  and  whatever  month   they  picked  they  put  on  a  program  for  the  public  on  some  aspect  of  Saratoga  [Springs]  history.   And  we  had  everything  from  board  members  reenacting  plays,  to  doing  readings,  to  just  telling   the  history  of  the  potato  chip,  uh  all-­‐  but  all  of  them  learned  more  about  the  museum  and   about  Saratoga's  [Springs']  history  by  doing  that.  So  when  their  time  came  up  to  leave  the   board,  a  lot  of  them  wanted  to  stay  on  because  now  they  felt  more  invested  in  it.  So  I  was  very   proud  of  that.     CC:  Ok,  so  who  do  you  think  the  community  interacts  with  the  museum,  maybe  first,  when  you   first  came  on,  and  maybe  today,  too  as  well?     DP:  When  I  first  came  on  I  had  the  feeling  that  the-­‐  and  at  the  time  the  proper  name  of  it  was   the  "Saratoga  Springs  Historical  Society",  and  that  sounds  a  little  puffy,  a  little  high-­‐brow,  and   that's  kinda  how  I  though  the  museum  was.  Um,  like  appealing  only  to  old  money,  and  not  a   place  that  would  be  welcoming  to  like  a  young  family  in  Geyser  Crest  [a  neighborhood  in   �Saratoga  Springs],  or  any  student  anywhere  in  the  city,  even  at  Skidmore.  Uh,  the  other  good   thing  we  did,  by  the  way,  over  time  was  that  we  started  bringing  in  Skidmore  interns,  which   were  great,  because  they  were  learning  history  but  they  also  gave  us  good,  young  ideas  and   they're  good  with  the  technology.  But  I  think  when  I  first  came  here,  all  the  museums  in  the  city   were  c  -­‐were  like  uh,  only  for  you  know  that  little  percent  at  the  top,  at  least  that  was  the   perception.  And  I  think  now,  I  think  we  have  11  museums  in  the  city,  I  think  now  they're  a  little   more...  they're  perceived  to  be  more  accessible  by  more  people.     CC:  Ok.  I  guess  if  there  was  one  thing  that  you  really  liked  about  both  the  High  School  in   Saratoga  [Springs]  and  the  museums,  what  would  that  be?     DP:  The  people.  Um,  the  museum  and  the  community  has  wonderful  volunteers,  uh  anytime     something  comes  up  or  somebody  needs  something  or  group  needs  something,  I've  seen  the   people  of  Saratoga  Springs  step  right  up  and  get  into  it.  Um,  I  know  on  the  Skidmore  Campus   you  guys  have  a  program  called  "Skidmore  Cares"  where  I've  seen  you  out  raking  leaves  for   senior  citizens,  that's  great!  At  Saratoga  High  School  we  had  a  program  in  participation  in   government,  and  one  of  the  sections  of  it  that  I  taught,  that  class,  that  whole  class  for  [high   school]  seniors  was  to  go  out  and  to  contribute  to  the  community  somehow.  And  they  came  up   with  this  great  project,  and  a  matter  of  fact  we  planted  a  vegetable  garden  over  on  the  east   side  of  town,  oh  God  that  was  in  1997,  it's  still  there,  and  they're  still  using  it  for  the  soup   kitchen,  the  vegetables.  [Coughs]  So  I  think  the  people  have  been  really  rere-­‐  same  at  SUNY   Albany  [Sate  University  of  New  York  at  Albany]  when  I  was  down  there,  I  think  the  uh...  and   whenever  people  go  all  pessimistic  about  the  future  or  current  times  and  things,  I  don't,   because  uh,  first  of  all  I  have  historic  perspective  so  I  know  how  history  has  ups  and  downs,  but   I  also  have  great  faith  in  people,  and  I  think  uh,  I  think  people  will  pull  us  through.     CC:  Ok,  I  guess  if  there's  one  thing  you  would  like  to  change  in  some  form  in  the  high  school  or   the  museum  system,  what  would-­‐  what  would  you  like  to  do?     DP:  Change?  Hmm...   [pause]   DP:  Umm....   [long  pause]   DP:  I  have  to  think  about  that  for  a  second.   CC:  Take  your  time,  no  big  deal.   [long  pause]   DP:  Well  there  is  a  lot  of  changes  I  would  like  to  see  made  in  public  education.  I'll  just  give  you  a   couple  of  ideas.  I  would  like  to  see  every  student,  no  matter  what  their  academic  level  is,  take  a   semester  of  BOCES  [Boards  of  Cooperative  Educational  Services  of  New  York  state],  of   vocational  training,  and  learn  how  to  change  oil  in  a  car,  or  change  a  tire,  or...um...  you  know   there's  a  lot  of  options  at  the  vocational  training  school-­‐  or  basic  plumbing  or  carpentry  or   something.  Uh,  I-­‐I  think  we  went  for  a  long  time  in  this  country,  where  we  were  kinda  elitist,   and  we  just  said,  "the  only  people  really  who  are  successful  are  the  people  who  go  to  college,"   and  I  don't  think  that's  true.  We  will  always  needs  craftsmen,  plumbers,  electricians,  and   �actually  in  this  country  right  now  we  have  shortage  of  those.  We  have  a  storage  of  people  who   can  do  this-­‐  I  mean  everyone  wants  to  be  the  next  great  Einstein,  well,  Einstein  still  needs  a   place  to  work  and  someone's  gotta  build  that.  And  um,  so  I  would  like  to  see  more,  a  little  more   emphasis,  an-­‐an-­‐and  not  so  much  snobbery  looking  down  the  nose  at  vocational  training.  So  I   guess  that's  one  thing.  The  second  thing  would  be  ...  [clears  throat]  I'm  not  sure  how  you  do   this  so  Chris  I'll  leave  this  up  to  you,  I  hate  cliques,  it's  the  one  thing  I  hated  the  most  teaching   in  the  [Saratoga]  High  School  all  those  years.  So,  I  would  almost  like  to  see,  I  don't  know  you   would  do  it,  but  some  school  come  up  with  some  system  where  anyone  sits  anywhere,  at  the   cafeteria  table.  It's  not  cliques  all  sitting  together  or  ganging  up  on  somebody.  Because  the   bullying  that  goes  on  now  that's  made  headlines?  That's  gone  on  forever!  And  I  think  it  comes   from  cliques.  And  bullies,  basically,  are  insecure,  and  I  think,  in  a  way,  cliques-­‐  they're  kinda   tribal  in  nature,  they  make  insecure  people  feel  better  if  they're  with  a  bunch  of  other  insecure   people.  So,  I've  always  hated  that.  Now,  we've  had  a  couple  of  classes  there,  class  of  '84,  the   class  of  '90,  the  class  of  '94,  uh  those  three  in  particular  stick  out  to  me  because  they  weren't   cliquey.  Everybody  in  that  class  seemed  to  get  along  with  everybody  else!  And  that  was  great.     CC:  Ok.  Anything  about  the  museums  you  would  like  to  change?     DP:  Uh,  not  I  just  wish  they  would  find  a  way,  or  somebody  would  come  up  with  a  way,  that   more  people  in  town  didn't  feel  intimidated  by  them,  and  would  ch-­‐and  would...  maybe  what   you  do,  I  don't  know  how  you  would  do  this,  if  they  could  get,  uh  an  endowment  of  some  kind,   um,  and  everybody  in  the  city,  for  like,  one  year,  could  just  go  to  any  museum  they  wanted   whenever  they  wanted  for  free,  just  so  people  would  go  and  see  what  we  have  here.  We  have   this  treasury  here,  but  A.  People  don't  wanna-­‐  or  can't  perhaps,  pay  the  money  to  join  the   museum,  or  B.  they  feel  intimidated  because  they  don't  feel  like  they're  welcome  in  the   museum,  and  I-­‐  if  we  can  get  a  more  welcoming  feeling  somehow,  um,  after  we  started  the   program  were  we  get  the-­‐  let  the  kids  be  free  members,  I-­‐I  let  the  kids  put  on  a  program  one   night,  I  think  it  was  in  May  one  year,  on  the  history  of  immigration  into  Saratoga  [Springs],  and   they  did  like  five  different  groups  of  immigrants,  and  they  put  up  an  actual  display.  And  we  left   it  up  in  the  museum  for  the  whole  summer.  People  loved  it!  Uh  but  they-­‐  all  the  words  were   from  the  kids,  the  pictures  were  all  chosen  by  the  kids,  they  put  it  up-­‐  well  we  had  an  opening   night,  and  I  was  hoping  we  might  fifteen  to  twenty  of  the  parents  to  show  up,  this  was  a  class  of   uh,  trying  to  think,  maybe  35  kids  I  had  in  it.  We  had  three  hundred  people  show  up!  Uh  they   were  streaming  out  the  door  and  the  parents  and  the  grandparents  were  so  proud  of  their  kids,   but  the  other  thing  I  noticed  was  so  many  of  them  were  said  [saying]  to  me,  "Hi,  I've  never  been   in  here  before."  And  it  was  great  to  at  least  get  them  in  the  museum.     CC:  Hmm.  So  what  was  it  like  starting  the  tour  uh  company?     DP:  Oh  the  tour  company?  Well,  unbeknownst  to  the  two  of  us,  this  is  with  my  buddy  Charlie   Kuenzel,  Charlie  was  a  science  teacher,  I  had  taught  two  of  three  kids,  and  Charlie  was  doing   tours...  they  weren't  tours,  Charlie  would  take  his  science  classes  around  to  the  springs  to  test   the  mineral  waters,  went  to  rock  formations  in  the  city  like  down  in-­‐  have  you  been,  I  know   you've  been  Chris,  you  know,  High  Rock  Spring?  Where  you  can  see  where  the  earthquake   �caused  the  springs  to  start.  So  he  would  take  his  kids  around  town  to  that.  Well  I  was  trying  to   start,  and  I  eventually  did  start,  a  Saratoga  [Springs]  history  class  for  [high  school]  seniors.  So  I   was  taking  of  groups  of  kids  mostly  down  to  the  casino,  to  the  museum  [the  History  Museum  is   in  the  old  building  of  the  Canfield  Casino],  into  Congress  park  and  tell  them  the  story  of  that.  So   one  day  and  I  thi-­‐  I  wa-­‐  oh,  what  we  did  was  we  each  started,  for  professional  development  for   teachers,  offering  a  two  hour  course  for  teachers  on  the  history  of  Saratoga  Springs.  He  was   doing  it  from  the  science  point  of  view  I  was  doing  it  from  history.  And  somebody  said,  "I  took   Charlie's  course,"  he  took  my  course,  and  somebody  said,  "Why  don't  you  guys  just  do  this   together?"  And  uh,  so  we  said  "Alright,  we'll  try  it."  So  we  started  teaching  that  to  teachers  a   couple  times  together.  We  became  great  friends,  we  hit  it  off  great.  The  science  and  social   studies  and  the  history  meshed,  and  uh,  that's  how  the  tour  business  started.     CC:  Cool,  so  when  did  you  start  that  independent  of  the  school?     DP:  1999,  I-­‐I  think  it's  been  almost  twenty  years.  And  over  that  time  we've  tours  to  uh,  two   hundred  FBI  agents,  the  Second  Circuit  of  Appeals  [United  States  Court  of  Appeals  for  the   Second  Circuit]  including  jus-­‐  including  Justice  [Ruth  Bader]  Ginsburg,  Demi  Lovato  and  her   band,  umm  [pause]  oh  I  mean  any  kind  of  group  you  can  imagine  uh  we've  given  tours  too.     CC:  And  have  you  changed  that  [DP  starts  speaking]  since  you  started?     DP:  Oh  of  course!  We've  worked  with  uh,  Professor  Dym's  classes  here  at  Skidmore,  and  at   Skidmore  orientation.     CC:  Anyway,  have  you  changed  the  tour  over  the  years  as  well?  Or  has  it  [DP  starts  speaking]   remained  pretty  consistent?     DP:  Well  the  nice  thing  is  with  history,  it  really  doesn't  change...   CC:  Um  hm.   DP:  ...and  if  it  does  if  there's  something  wrong.  [laughs]  Um,  but  what  has  happened  over  time   is,  every  year  I've  learned  more  of  the  history  of  Saratoga  [Springs].  Like  I  don't  you're  learning   of  it  ever  stops.  And  so  that's  changed,  a  lot  of  things  have  been  added  to  it,  but  like  I  said   before  with  teaching  a  history  course,  if  you're  adding  more  things  to  it  you  gotta  look  for   things  to  take  out.   CC:  Mm  hm.   DP:  Um,  so  that's  happened.  But  mostly  it's  the  same  as  what  we  did  twenty  years  ago.     CC:  I  guess  has-­‐  have  you  learned  anything  that  surprised  you  recently?     DP:  Oh  all  lot,  um  [pause]  Gideon  Putnam,  came  to  Saratoga  Springs  when  he  was  twenty  five   years  old,  and  his  wife  was  uh  Doanda,  I  think  was  twenty  two  or  twenty  three.  He  is  considered   the  founder  of  Saratoga  Springs,  now  there  were  people  here  before  him,  but  he  was  a   lumberman,  and  he  laid  out  the  village  of  Saratoga,  down-­‐  what  is  now  downtown  Saratoga.  His   wife,  Doanda,  would  whitewash  trees,  put  whitewash  on  trees,  and  then  he,  the  lumberman,   �would  cut  the  trees  down,  and  that's  how  they  made  the  roads.  So,  two  things  having  to  do  him   I  learned  that  I  thought  were  interesting.  One  was,  we  always  thought,  "This  guy  is  a  genius  for   making  a  road  one  hundred  and  forty  seven  feet  wide  in  the  middle  of  the  woods,"  because   today,  I  mean,  it's  great  width,  you  know,  'cus  most  streets  aren't  like  that,  especially  not  in   1789.  Well  it  turns  out  we  found  writings  of  Gideon  Putnam  and  the  reason  the  street  was  that   wide  was  because  he  was  a  lumberman,  and  he  pulled  a  cart  behind  his  horses,  he  would  let   them  back  the  cart  up  without  having  to  make  all  these  fancy  maneuvers,  so  he  could  turn  the   cart  around,  at  one  hundred  and  forty  seven  feet,  and  that's  why  the  road  is  that  wide.  So  it   was  very  practical  but  that  was  interesting.  The  other  thing  about  him  I  thought  was  interesting,   well  two  things,  two  more  things.  One  was,  he  set  up  the  first  school  in  Saratoga,  first  public   school,  he  set  up  the  first  church  in  Saratoga,  both  over  on  Washington  street,  and  he  also  set   up  the  first  burial  ground,  and  unfortunately  he  was  the  first  one  buried  in  the  burial  ground.   And  the  last  thing  about  him  that  I  think  is  interesting  is  that  I  never  knew,  uh  was  that  his  uncle   was  the  founder  of  Marietta,  Ohio,  so  it  must  have  been  in  their  blood.     CC:  Anyway,  I  guess,  since  we're  starting  to  approach  thirty  minutes  here,  I  guess  I'll  leave  off   with  one  question  that,  in  class  we  discussed,  and  then  I  think  as  a  historian  you  might  find   interesting,  we  noticed  that  in  the  town  of  Saratoga  [Springs]  there's  a  lot  of  statues  of  horses,   and  uh  they  have  jockeys  and  there  is  a  Civil  War  solider,  but  there  isn't  really  as  many  statues   as  individuals.  Who  do  you  think  you  would  like  to  see  a  statue  of  in  town?     DP:  Oh!  What  a  good  question.  Professor  Dym.  Uh,  how  about  uh,  let's  see,  "Who  would  I  like   to  see  a  statue  of,"  -­‐  well  interestingly,  of  all  the  people  in  Saratoga  history,  the  one  we  have  no   idea  what  he  looks  like  is  Gideon  Putnam.  Everyone  else  we  at  least  have  a  sketch  or  a   photograph  or  something,  we  have  no  idea  what  he  looks  like.  His  wife  we  have,  his  kids,  but   not  him,  so  I  don't  you  could  do  that  statue.  Uh,  who  would  you  do  a  sat-­‐  want  to  hear  an   interesting  fun  fact  about  Saratoga  Springs?     CC:  Sure!   DP:  Almost  all  of  the  great  things  that  happened  in  the  city  since  1789,  since  Gideon  Putnam,   were  done  by  people  who  moved  here,  not  by  people  who  were  born  here.  That's  fascinating.   Um  alright  so  who  do  we  want  statue  to?   [Long  pause]   Mine  would  be  a  little  bit  controversial,  but  my  statute  would  be  to  John  Morrissey,  John   Morrissey  not  only  built  the  Canfield  Casino,  but  he  founded  the  racetrack  [Saratoga  Race   Course],  and  I  think  most  peop-­‐  and  you  can  make  a  pretty  good  argument,  that  over  the  years,   those  two  things  were  the  two  biggest  attractions  in  Saratoga  Springs.     CC:  Ok  cool,  anyway,  thank  you  for  your  time  today!     DP:  Oh,  thank  you!     � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral History Description An account of the resource Many people who have worked or studied at Skidmore College or lived in Saratoga Springs or the surrounding area carry the memories that help us tell the stories of our communities. This collection offers a glimpse into our past in the voices of those who have shared their stories. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit The date create the item in euro 8/03/18 Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Cocchi, Christopher, 2019 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Paterson, Dave Location The location of the interview Skidmore College, Lucy Scribner Library Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Christopher Cocchi: Ok, testing 1,2,3. I think its working. Ok! So uh, first thing is that, uh do you, just to go over uh, verbal consent, uh do you agree to what you signed before about, you know, hav- lending your voice to the uh, Saratoga or Skidmore Memory Project [Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project (SSMP)] and uh, you know, letting it be used online and whatnot? Dave Paterson: I do. CC: Cool, thank you. Anyway, first things first I just have to record just the empty the noise here so that they can edit it out so I'm just gonna be silent for about a few seconds here [Pause] CC: Ok, so for the record, my name is Christopher Cocchi, I'm here with Dave Paterson, in the Skidmore Library in the Media Viewing room, and I'm interviewing him for the Public History in Skidmore with Professor [Jordana] Dym. So uh, I guess, to begin, uh, what's uh, just tell me about yourself, like uh, when were you born or like where did you live growing up? DP: Ok, I was born in south Boston- CC: Um hm. DP:-in 1954. CC: Um hm. DP : And, uh, I've been in Saratoga [Springs] for the last 47 years. I've taught for over 30 years at the [Saratoga Springs] high school here, [as the] Social Studies department head, and overlapping 15 years at The University at Albany. Uh, in the midst of all that teaching of I was also President of the Saratoga Springs History Museum, and for 19 years a friend of mine and I have run a company called Saratoga Tours, where we give historic tours of Saratoga Springs. CC: Ok cool. So uh, what got you interested in history in the first place? DP: Probably my 8th grade history teacher, uh, Mr.Curren [SP?], and uh, he's the first one who made who made it more about how and why instead of, memorizing who, what, when, and where and dates and all those, and uh, I always liked to read. And once I started reading history, then I wanted to read more, it's like, now I'm writing for Saratoga Living Magazine, I think the new, the new relaunch of the magazine just came out a couple days ago, and I have an article in there that I wrote for them about the blizzard of 1888 when we got 57 inches of snow. But while I was researching that, and reading up on that, then I found a bunch more questions I wanted answers to so then I go off on- and that's the great thing about history, you're never done. CC: Um hm. That's very cool. Now uh, where did you go after your, uh, experience in public school, like which university did you [DP starts speaking] go to from there? DP: Oh, uh college-wise I was at the, first was at the University of Miami. CC: Um hm. DP: Uh, I was playing Baseball also at the time so I left Miami, um I ended up getting degrees from Boston College, uh, University at Albany, and [ The College of] Saint Rose. CC: Ok cool. And what was your first experience out of college? DP: [Deep breath] [You] mean work wise? CC: Yeah. DP: I taught for half a year in Rutland, Vermont. I was the fourth teacher they had hired, because the 7th and 8th graders were driving all the substitute people crazy, and I remember I started in February, oh I think 1980, and I get through the rest of the school year with them, and a matter of fact, on like the second the second to last week of school, the assistant superintendent asked me if I was available to come back an- oh- then next year and I said I was. And he said they were going to give me like a "The 8th grade teacher of the year award" and I said oh this is great, and then the next week I got laid off! CC: Oh! DP: [Laughs] So I was going to go back to Boston and open up a sporting goods store, and uh, on my way down through, I had interviewed at Saratoga High School before, but they already had a position filled, on my way down- I was packing up my car literally, on the day I was going to go to Boston, when Saratoga called and said "we have an opening, do you want to come up and interview?" [Unsure mumble] I said ok, I will. So I went up, they hired me, and I've been there for the last 40 years. CC: Uh, so, what was your- what was- wh- what was your teaching at Saratoga High [School]? DP: Uh, really good. Uh, Saratoga [Springs]'s a really good school district. Uh, I taught everything you can teach in the Social Studies from grades 7 to 12. Every level of student, from the weakest kids we had, a lot of kids with special needs, up to the Advanced Placement courses, uh I think I was only the 2nd Advance Placement U.S. History teacher in the county when we started that program. Um, I also taught in summer school I taught phys. ed. [Physical Education], I taught English, Social Studies, so, but, you know, all in all a terrific experience. Great kids. CC: So, how- did anything change over the years that you were teaching History at Saratoga High School? DP: [Deep breath] Well, [pause] that's one of the great things about history, things do change as time goes on, um the first kids I taught in the 1980's, I don't know if you'll remember Chris but there used to be a show on TV, a TV show in the 80's called "Family Ties". CC: Um hmm. DP: And most of the kids in the 80's were a lot like that Alex P. Keaton character. You know, they were the Michael Fox character, um, very preppy kind of thing, and we went through ph-phase for a while, but then we get into a phase where uh, everybody was getting piercings everywhere, and then we got into a phase where the clothes got kinda wild, and then it went back to more conservative dress. So it's kinda been all over the place, and uh, its interesting because towards the end of my career I noticed I was teaching a lot of the sons and daughters of kids I taught 30 years before. CC: Did uh the material you taught change at all or was it pretty consistent? DP: Well the tough thing with History is- and Math teachers don't understand this- um, there's a finite amount of information to teach in the AP [Advanced Placement] or Regents [Examinations] Math or Science courses, so they can usually schedule their courses to end, let's say, mid-May, or early May, which will give them to review for either the AP exam or the Regents. Well, History just gets added onto every year. So, for example when we get to 2001, you can't leave out 9/11, that's too important [of] a piece of history. So as you add things in, you have to edit other things that you've been teaching over time. So, you figure, when I started, was the first year Reagan, Ro-Ro Ronald Reagan was president, um when I ended [Barack] Obama was president. Well, a lot changed, and then you gotta teach all that. So, the amount I had to teach changed, and I think my methods of teaching changed. CC: Could you go into that, like wh-wh- how did your methods change? DP: Well, [Cough] education isn't a once size fit all, I don't think, although I-it does make me laugh because [the] New York Department of Education continually talks about differentiated instruction, which is the idea that every student should be treated differently and taught according to, you know, what they can do. And I agree with that philosophically, [Cough] yet they want every kid to sit down for same Regents exam, whether you live in Long Island, or Brooklyn, or Saratoga Springs. And to me that is a little ridiculous. I never had a student fail a state test, but I think the reason for that is, because even with lowest level kids I taught, I always treated Social Studies, and I think it's true of any subject [test], as a vocabulary test. As long the kids understand what the questions are at the end of the year, they can answer them. What happens is a lot of teachers think they're being a good teacher, what they'll do something like this, they'll say, I'll be teaching a class and I'll say "Ok, so were when the immigrants were coming into New York City, and they were being processed, and they were slowly getting accepted and they got jobs in factories, and they started to learn the English language, and customs in America, that's called Assimilation." Well some teachers, thinking they're just trying to help the kids, will just refer to it as "fitting in", 'cus the kids will understand it better. The problem is when they get to the Regents exam, the Regents uses the word "assimilation", and if a student doesn't associate the word assimilation with the immigrant experience, they're not going to get the question right. So I learned early on that vocabulary was an important part. Also early on when I was teaching it was a lot more chalk talk lecturing, as then as time when the technology get so good with the Smartboards and things, I could work in, instead of telling kids about Martin Luther Kings' [Jr.] "I Have a Dream" speech, I can play them a quick 5 minute excerpt, I can show them an inauguration, um, so that was good. CC: Ok, uh do you have any like, uh stories from any particular incidences [incidents] from your time in the [Saratoga] high school? DP: [Laughs] Stories relative to what? CC: I guess like for instance like, did you ever have like a student that like, made you think "Hey, you know, this might be an interesting way to teach it next time." Or did a teacher come up to you and say something that like, made think of, like... DP: Oh several times, I think most of the times the changes I've made in my teaching methods over the years came from a feedback I got from students. Um, because you a different group of students every year, and they come at things from a different perspective. Uh, one of my favorite students ever was a young man who came up to me and said, he was very nice, he was thanking me for the course, for teaching the course, for teaching the course and everything, and then he said "You know what I really liked a lot was when we worked in groups." And I hadn't really been too big on group projects, but for the next years I took a couple of the units and I made them group projects things, and all of them- well not all of them- most of the kids really seem to like it. So then the next year I did a little more of that, and-and that happened a few times in my career, he's now a very successful doctor at a Mass. General Boston [Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston]. CC: Cool. Uh, so what was like- wh-what was life like living in Saratoga [Springs] at the time, 'cus you were new to the area, correct? DP: Yeah Saratoga [Springs] is uh [small pause] it's an interesting city. Uh when I first moved up here, there seemed to me there was a strong feeling like Broadway was the dividing line in the city. And, briefly when I first moved here I lived in an apartment on the east side of Broadway. And, but for most of the time I've been here I lived in a house on the west side. And it seemed to me in maybe the first 10 years I lived here, there was a dividing line between the people of west Saratoga [Springs], west of Broadway and east of Broadway, and so, of course I got curious and I started doing research and talking to people, and uh the [Saratoga] High School used to be, way back when, over where uh, uh Lake Ave. [Avenue] Elementary School is. So the kids from [the] West side of Saratoga [Springs] had a longer walk than the kids from the east side of Saratoga [Springs], and there was a train that cut the path, they went by where the Price Chopper is, Railroad Place [Aparements]. So, the kids from the West side had to time- since they used to let them home for lunch- but you had to time it right so the train wasn't holding you up. Um, and o- and then the trains disappeared and all that, but that "feeling" seemed to stay with a lot of old-timers. So that was interesting to me. That's now changed, I don't feel that now. Saratoga [Springs] is uh, I think- I think I read that as of two years ago, for the first time, there are now more people living in Saratoga [Springs] who weren't born here than were born here, so that's a big change in that. Um, but Saratoga [Springs] you know, you look at its over the years, it reinvents itself all the time. And I think it's done that when the [Saratoga] City Center came about in 1984, Saratoga [Springs] got revitalized, and boy, where else would you want to be now? CC: Um hm, so, how do you think the people of Saratoga [Springs] changed during your time uh- DP: The time I've been here? CC: Um hm. DP: [Deep breath, pause] Well, I-I thought it was noteworthy that a couple years ago Saratoga [Springs] get [got] named the "Friendliest city in New York", 'cus I think the people are very friendly. Um, we're also very also very much Wonderbread, in the sense that we're- like, I don't know what we are, 90% Caucasian or something, so its been nice to see an influx of minorities into the city of Saratoga Springs, and uh- and its been to see the city of Saratoga Springs kind of incorporating the kids or the students from Skidmore more. Uh, there was a time there were the community town and gown relationships weren't that great. But I think the college has made an effort and I think the community has made an effort to try and get closer, and I think that helps both sides. CC: I guess, is it ok if you give an example of when times weren't good between the community and the college and maybe a more recent example how [DP starts speaking] that kinda works for the better? DP: Ok, I have to go into my little history thing here for you to do that Chris, but I would say this, there was a time not too long ago, I'm going to say the 1960s, and maybe the 50s and maybe even the 70s- but I wasn't here so I'm not sure, when every year- 'cus in those days Skidmore was uh- until the late 60s-early 70s Skidmore was downtown, the campus. But whenever the Skidmore kids came to start a new school year, li- businesses would have signs like "Welcome Skidmore Students" and badubub, you know, and the whole community was like "Oh, we're happy to have the Skidmore kids back." Well when I came here in 1981 there was none of that. As a matter of fact there was even some "We don't want those Skidmore kids down here, where you got to keep an eye on them," and blahblahblah. But now I've noticed in the last few years they're back to the Chamber of Commerce is talking again "Why don't we put those signs up again?" Uh, so that's a good thing. CC: Ok cool. So, I know you mentioned that during this time you became involved with the [Saratoga Springs] History Museum. DP: Yup. CC: How did that happen? DP: I think I got involved with like six or eight groups in Saratoga Springs, but I became president of the [Saratoga Springs] History Museum. The reason was I was down there alot, researching things- as I said when we started, as I get questions on things I have to delve more into them. So a lot of questions I had, I always think the best way to teach history is-if I can get the kids to relate to it from things that happened in their community, then they can kinda see it with the United States and maybe globally. So I was in the [Saratoga Springs] History Museum alot doing research, and at one point, um, the director at the time, asked me if I would be willing to join the board. So, I did, I joined the board at the [Saratoga Springs] History Museum, and I learned alot from those people. Many of them were old-timers, uh, who had been here forever. And I just listened to them tell their stories. Fascinating. So, then that director left, and I was one of the people in charge of finding the new director. So the person we ended up hiring was Jamie Parillo [James D. Parillo], he's still the director there now, young guy, he had worked at Saratoga National Battlefield [Saratoga Battlefield, part of the Saratoga National Historical Park]. Um, once Jamie came on board he brought kind of a youthful exuberance to it. As a matter of fact we started a program where- 'cus I said, "We gotta reach out kids more." So we started something that hadn't been done before, it was a Junior Membership, so that any kid who wanted to be a member of the [Saratoga Springs] History Museum, basically got a free membership. So they got a membership card, and any time they wanted to go to the museum to check things out or research, they could go down there. So I thought that was good. Uh, when I first became president of the museum, we were suffering a little bit because uh, financially, cus' we're dependent, the museum is dependent of grants and donations, uh and, uh an antiques show they had once a year. And they were struggling, and we were in the red, we were in debt. And I'm happy to say that by the time I left as president we were in the black, we were showing a profit. And I think they are doing fine now. Um, so all-all of that was a good experience. CC: So what did you do at the [Saratoga Springs] History museum? You were on the board- DP: Yup. CC: You helped with the director [search], so what else did you do there? DP: Well when- it's easier to say when I was president of the board, because when I was on the board I was doing whatever the president at the time wanted to do or the director, and it wasn't that much. When I became president, I thought to myself, "Saratoga [Springs] history is so great, there's so much here." Um, "And this museum is so great, it's the oldest museum in the city." So I had every member of the board pick a month of the year, and whatever month they picked they put on a program for the public on some aspect of Saratoga [Springs] history. And we had everything from board members reenacting plays, to doing readings, to just telling the history of the potato chip, uh all- but all of them learned more about the museum and about Saratoga's [Springs'] history by doing that. So when their time came up to leave the board, a lot of them wanted to stay on because now they felt more invested in it. So I was very proud of that. CC: Ok, so who do you think the community interacts with the museum, maybe first, when you first came on, and maybe today, too as well? DP: When I first came on I had the feeling that the- and at the time the proper name of it was the "Saratoga Springs Historical Society", and that sounds a little puffy, a little high-brow, and that's kinda how I though the museum was. Um, like appealing only to old money, and not a place that would be welcoming to like a young family in Geyser Crest [a neighborhood in Saratoga Springs], or any student anywhere in the city, even at Skidmore. Uh, the other good thing we did, by the way, over time was that we started bringing in Skidmore interns, which were great, because they were learning history but they also gave us good, young ideas and they're good with the technology. But I think when I first came here, all the museums in the city were c -were like uh, only for you know that little percent at the top, at least that was the perception. And I think now, I think we have 11 museums in the city, I think now they're a little more... they're perceived to be more accessible by more people. CC: Ok. I guess if there was one thing that you really liked about both the High School in Saratoga [Springs] and the museums, what would that be? DP: The people. Um, the museum and the community has wonderful volunteers, uh anytime something comes up or somebody needs something or group needs something, I've seen the people of Saratoga Springs step right up and get into it. Um, I know on the Skidmore Campus you guys have a program called "Skidmore Cares" where I've seen you out raking leaves for senior citizens, that's great! At Saratoga High School we had a program in participation in government, and one of the sections of it that I taught, that class, that whole class for [high school] seniors was to go out and to contribute to the community somehow. And they came up with this great project, and a matter of fact we planted a vegetable garden over on the east side of town, oh God that was in 1997, it's still there, and they're still using it for the soup kitchen, the vegetables. [Coughs] So I think the people have been really rere- same at SUNY Albany [Sate University of New York at Albany] when I was down there, I think the uh... and whenever people go all pessimistic about the future or current times and things, I don't, because uh, first of all I have historic perspective so I know how history has ups and downs, but I also have great faith in people, and I think uh, I think people will pull us through. CC: Ok, I guess if there's one thing you would like to change in some form in the high school or the museum system, what would- what would you like to do? DP: Change? Hmm... [pause] DP: Umm.... [long pause] DP: I have to think about that for a second. CC: Take your time, no big deal. [long pause] DP: Well there is a lot of changes I would like to see made in public education. I'll just give you a couple of ideas. I would like to see every student, no matter what their academic level is, take a semester of BOCES [Boards of Cooperative Educational Services of New York state], of vocational training, and learn how to change oil in a car, or change a tire, or...um... you know there's a lot of options at the vocational training school- or basic plumbing or carpentry or something. Uh, I-I think we went for a long time in this country, where we were kinda elitist, and we just said, "the only people really who are successful are the people who go to college," and I don't think that's true. We will always needs craftsmen, plumbers, electricians, and actually in this country right now we have shortage of those. We have a storage of people who can do this- I mean everyone wants to be the next great Einstein, well, Einstein still needs a place to work and someone's gotta build that. And um, so I would like to see more, a little more emphasis, an-an-and not so much snobbery looking down the nose at vocational training. So I guess that's one thing. The second thing would be ... [clears throat] I'm not sure how you do this so Chris I'll leave this up to you, I hate cliques, it's the one thing I hated the most teaching in the [Saratoga] High School all those years. So, I would almost like to see, I don't know you would do it, but some school come up with some system where anyone sits anywhere, at the cafeteria table. It's not cliques all sitting together or ganging up on somebody. Because the bullying that goes on now that's made headlines? That's gone on forever! And I think it comes from cliques. And bullies, basically, are insecure, and I think, in a way, cliques- they're kinda tribal in nature, they make insecure people feel better if they're with a bunch of other insecure people. So, I've always hated that. Now, we've had a couple of classes there, class of '84, the class of '90, the class of '94, uh those three in particular stick out to me because they weren't cliquey. Everybody in that class seemed to get along with everybody else! And that was great. CC: Ok. Anything about the museums you would like to change? DP: Uh, not I just wish they would find a way, or somebody would come up with a way, that more people in town didn't feel intimidated by them, and would ch-and would... maybe what you do, I don't know how you would do this, if they could get, uh an endowment of some kind, um, and everybody in the city, for like, one year, could just go to any museum they wanted whenever they wanted for free, just so people would go and see what we have here. We have this treasury here, but A. People don't wanna- or can't perhaps, pay the money to join the museum, or B. they feel intimidated because they don't feel like they're welcome in the museum, and I- if we can get a more welcoming feeling somehow, um, after we started the program were we get the- let the kids be free members, I-I let the kids put on a program one night, I think it was in May one year, on the history of immigration into Saratoga [Springs], and they did like five different groups of immigrants, and they put up an actual display. And we left it up in the museum for the whole summer. People loved it! Uh but they- all the words were from the kids, the pictures were all chosen by the kids, they put it up- well we had an opening night, and I was hoping we might fifteen to twenty of the parents to show up, this was a class of uh, trying to think, maybe 35 kids I had in it. We had three hundred people show up! Uh they were streaming out the door and the parents and the grandparents were so proud of their kids, but the other thing I noticed was so many of them were said [saying] to me, "Hi, I've never been in here before." And it was great to at least get them in the museum. CC: Hmm. So what was it like starting the tour uh company? DP: Oh the tour company? Well, unbeknownst to the two of us, this is with my buddy Charlie Kuenzel, Charlie was a science teacher, I had taught two of three kids, and Charlie was doing tours... they weren't tours, Charlie would take his science classes around to the springs to test the mineral waters, went to rock formations in the city like down in- have you been, I know you've been Chris, you know, High Rock Spring? Where you can see where the earthquake caused the springs to start. So he would take his kids around town to that. Well I was trying to start, and I eventually did start, a Saratoga [Springs] history class for [high school] seniors. So I was taking of groups of kids mostly down to the casino, to the museum [the History Museum is in the old building of the Canfield Casino], into Congress park and tell them the story of that. So one day and I thi- I wa- oh, what we did was we each started, for professional development for teachers, offering a two hour course for teachers on the history of Saratoga Springs. He was doing it from the science point of view I was doing it from history. And somebody said, "I took Charlie's course," he took my course, and somebody said, "Why don't you guys just do this together?" And uh, so we said "Alright, we'll try it." So we started teaching that to teachers a couple times together. We became great friends, we hit it off great. The science and social studies and the history meshed, and uh, that's how the tour business started. CC: Cool, so when did you start that independent of the school? DP: 1999, I-I think it's been almost twenty years. And over that time we've tours to uh, two hundred FBI agents, the Second Circuit of Appeals [United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit] including jus- including Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, Demi Lovato and her band, umm [pause] oh I mean any kind of group you can imagine uh we've given tours too. CC: And have you changed that [DP starts speaking] since you started? DP: Oh of course! We've worked with uh, Professor Dym's classes here at Skidmore, and at Skidmore orientation. CC: Anyway, have you changed the tour over the years as well? Or has it [DP starts speaking] remained pretty consistent? DP: Well the nice thing is with history, it really doesn't change... CC: Um hm. DP: ...and if it does if there's something wrong. [laughs] Um, but what has happened over time is, every year I've learned more of the history of Saratoga [Springs]. Like I don't you're learning of it ever stops. And so that's changed, a lot of things have been added to it, but like I said before with teaching a history course, if you're adding more things to it you gotta look for things to take out. CC: Mm hm. DP: Um, so that's happened. But mostly it's the same as what we did twenty years ago. CC: I guess has- have you learned anything that surprised you recently? DP: Oh all lot, um [pause] Gideon Putnam, came to Saratoga Springs when he was twenty five years old, and his wife was uh Doanda, I think was twenty two or twenty three. He is considered the founder of Saratoga Springs, now there were people here before him, but he was a lumberman, and he laid out the village of Saratoga, down- what is now downtown Saratoga. His wife, Doanda, would whitewash trees, put whitewash on trees, and then he, the lumberman, would cut the trees down, and that's how they made the roads. So, two things having to do him I learned that I thought were interesting. One was, we always thought, "This guy is a genius for making a road one hundred and forty seven feet wide in the middle of the woods," because today, I mean, it's great width, you know, 'cus most streets aren't like that, especially not in 1789. Well it turns out we found writings of Gideon Putnam and the reason the street was that wide was because he was a lumberman, and he pulled a cart behind his horses, he would let them back the cart up without having to make all these fancy maneuvers, so he could turn the cart around, at one hundred and forty seven feet, and that's why the road is that wide. So it was very practical but that was interesting. The other thing about him I thought was interesting, well two things, two more things. One was, he set up the first school in Saratoga, first public school, he set up the first church in Saratoga, both over on Washington street, and he also set up the first burial ground, and unfortunately he was the first one buried in the burial ground. And the last thing about him that I think is interesting is that I never knew, uh was that his uncle was the founder of Marietta, Ohio, so it must have been in their blood. CC: Anyway, I guess, since we're starting to approach thirty minutes here, I guess I'll leave off with one question that, in class we discussed, and then I think as a historian you might find interesting, we noticed that in the town of Saratoga [Springs] there's a lot of statues of horses, and uh they have jockeys and there is a Civil War solider, but there isn't really as many statues as individuals. Who do you think you would like to see a statue of in town? DP: Oh! What a good question. Professor Dym. Uh, how about uh, let's see, "Who would I like to see a statue of," - well interestingly, of all the people in Saratoga history, the one we have no idea what he looks like is Gideon Putnam. Everyone else we at least have a sketch or a photograph or something, we have no idea what he looks like. His wife we have, his kids, but not him, so I don't you could do that statue. Uh, who would you do a sat- want to hear an interesting fun fact about Saratoga Springs? CC: Sure! DP: Almost all of the great things that happened in the city since 1789, since Gideon Putnam, were done by people who moved here, not by people who were born here. That's fascinating. Um alright so who do we want statue to? [Long pause] Mine would be a little bit controversial, but my statute would be to John Morrissey, John Morrissey not only built the Canfield Casino, but he founded the racetrack [Saratoga Race Course], and I think most peop- and you can make a pretty good argument, that over the years, those two things were the two biggest attractions in Saratoga Springs. CC: Ok cool, anyway, thank you for your time today! DP: Oh, thank you! Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 33 Minutes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Dave Paterson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 11th, 2018 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project Description An account of the resource An oral history interview with Dave Paterson, formerly a History Teacher at Saratoga High School and president of the Saratoga Springs History Meusuem, currently a tour guide at Saratoga Tours. In this interview, he discusses his journey to Saratoga Springs, his views on how things have changed, his history of working for the High School and the Museum, as well as what he is still learning today. Language A language of the resource ENG Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cocchi, Christopher, 2019 History Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs High School Saratoga Springs History Museum Saratoga Tours teaching https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/649d6b2e1417e1ceca6b48187ea3379e.jpg ae90fcf7c944050780e5c39e754484dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Council tables transit plan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/1/07 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Coleman, Lee Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Daily Gazette Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource After being presented with a 1059-signature petition opposed to the city's downtown transportation plan, the City Council on Tuesday tabled action on the proposal. 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The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource The City Council on Tuesday endorsed city Supervisor Matthew Veitch's initiative to have the state make improvements to Route 50-North, including a separate walking and bicycle path along the busy arterial. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/ea6fb22a0f02ce41970810673dec18a9.jpg 5a0142cd7794589318817f282a5abac9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Walking, biking, to Spa park studied Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/17/10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Coleman, Lee Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Daily Gazette Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource A new study of the Route 50 corridor near the Saratoga Spa State Park recommends $1.5 million in improvements to pedestrian and bicycle access to the park and nearby city trails. 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Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spring Run Trail officially opened Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/18/10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Coleman, Lee Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Daily Gazette Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource New, mile-long walking, biking path; after almost two decades the Spring Run Trail is now open Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/0760a3d4e07b864ec4806f63eed488a0.png ad92cf235aec9c15623bcb2d4c77c6c8 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/a34a117f77a095db0c35022d9534cf90.mp3 523c3ff228a1ae1d88556d4d646f4673 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Flurry Festival Description An account of the resource The Flurry Festival is a three day music and dance Festival that takes place in Saratoga Springs in February. The festival holds workshops, performances, dances, and jam sessions in the city center and throughout the town. The Flurry first started as a dance festival for contra dancing but has expanded to musicians and spans all genres of music and dance as well as encompassing family friendly events such as storytelling. Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource The Flurry Festival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jennifer Davies, Clara-Sophia Daly, Dustin Foote, Amanda Muir, Tess Olcott, Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Colin Liscord Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed John Guay Location The location of the interview Skidmore College Library room 128C Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Interviewee: John Guay Interviewer: Colin Liscord Location of Interview: Study Room 128C in Skidmore Library Date of Interview: 12/1/16 00:00:01- Header 00:00:31- Introduction, born September 21, 1944 in Biddeford Maine. Currently resides in Easton New York. 00:01:14- President one Flurry Dance Organization. Runs seventy dances a year. Flurry originated to help fund local dances. Been going for thirty years. 00:02:34- Started small, thirty local performers. Grown to 4700 performers from all around. 00:03:22- Mission statement, to inspire and connect people through traditional music and dance. 00:11:36- Contra dance evolved for the dancers. 00:12:06- Flurry has evolved, started techno contras. Draws youth in, happens at midnight. 00:19:47- Plays hammer dulcimer. 00:23:28- Important historic and community event. More than just music and dance, brings community together. 00:25:05- During the Flurry have different rooms in hotel have music lessons, historic lessons and dances. 00:27:05- Added more dances over the years. Jamming together in the halls. 00:28:04- Started to see high school kids come and play instruments and dance. 00:32:04- Revitalization of music. 00:35:20- would like to see more Skidmore students come play and dance. 00:36:31- Flurry more about dance. 00:37:27- Would never consider moving. Saratoga has a nice community feel for the Flurry. 00:38:34- Only dancing and music art forms. 00:41:01- Flurry unique, has beginning and experienced dancers. Organization needs to keep more experienced dancers around for this experience. 00:43:18- End. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral History Description An account of the resource Many people who have worked or studied at Skidmore College or lived in Saratoga Springs or the surrounding area carry the memories that help us tell the stories of our communities. This collection offers a glimpse into our past in the voices of those who have shared their stories. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Cooper Murphy, Skidmore Senior Memory Project Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Lou Schneider Location The location of the interview Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866 and Saratoga Senior Center 5 Williams St, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Zoom) Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Cooper Murphy Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 18/11/2020 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Audio Recording Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:55:17 and 00:23:48 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound First Transcription of Lou Schneider CM: Today is 10/26/2020 time is 12:55 pm I am the interviewer CM would you like to introduce yourself. Lou Schneider: My name is Lou Schneider, I am 89 born 4/17/1931. What else can I say? CM: That’s about it. Okay so are you okay with this information being stored or shared through the public domain and in Skidmore Saratoga memorial project. LS: No problem. CM: Okay, and let's get started shall we. Okay, first question is, where did you live as a kid. LS: Wander what I’m sorry louder. CM: Where did you live as a kid. LS: Brooklyn, New York. That's where I was born. CM: And what was your family like LS: Well family. I'm the first generation in the United States. My father came from Lithuania, my mother from Poland. CM: Did you have any siblings. LS: I have a younger sister three years younger than me. CM: Did you guys go to the same school LS: Yes, Lafayette high school in Brooklyn New York CM: And how're classes for that. LS: Alone one what. I'm sorry. CM: Sorry, did you have of what we're teachers like back then. LS: I still didn't catch the question, I'm sorry. CM: It's perfectly fine. What were teachers like back at your middle school? LS: What was it like CM: Yeah. LS: Well, I'm being born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Is uh my stomping ground was Coney Island spent a lot of time, they're. Doing a lot of things. As I was growing up at the age of eight. We used to play had some friends. We used to play chess Pinochle and hearts. CM: And did any of those become hobbies that you did in the future. LS: Hobbies? CM: Hobbies. Yeah. What were your hobbies? LS: Yeah, the only the only hobby. I really had was reading. I enjoy, you know, books, a lot of reading. And just living the good life in Brooklyn, New York, and stomping ground in Coney Island. CM: Sounds fun. Did you have a specific genre that you really liked…Or a topic? LS: Or what? CM: Book. Did you have a topic of a book that you really liked to read about LS: No, I read on. Anything I can get my hands on. But I gravitated more towards mysteries than anything else. CM: Cool. Did you have a favorite type of music as a kid? LS: Did I have a what CM: Did you have a favorite type of music like a type of band or LS: Type of anything. No, really. Enjoyed own music. Yeah. Gravitated a little towards jazz, but that's about it. CM: Did you have a favorite holiday? LS: Favorite what CM: Holiday LS: Any day. I didn't have to go to school with was a holiday to me. CM: That's fair enough. LS: I was not. I was not one of the best students available at the time as growing up as I got older, I want. I want to see college. I got a degree in chemical engineering. So just settle down a bit. CM: Uh, did you have any pets as a kid? LS: Did you ask your question. CM: Yeah, sorry, it looks like our connections, a bit iffy. But, um, Yes. I said, did you have any pets as a kid. LS: No. No, I'll no pets went up by. Those in Brooklyn and a three bed in a three-bedroom apartment. She used to sleep in the bedroom with my folks. I used to sleep in a roll away cot in the living room. Which made it interesting. CM: So you mentioned how you went to community college and we've talked about your. Elementary School. But do you know, do you remember where you went to high school. LS: Yes, Lafayette High School in Brooklyn New York, and I admit though I really weren’t a good student never took any interest in it until I grew up. CM: And I know that you're a veteran. Can you tell me which war he fought in if not wars? LS: Korea I was very fortunate during the Korean War. I was stationed in Washington, DC. I work for the Army prosthetics research lab we did research on different types of materials artificial limbs. And it was interesting. So the work with amputees almost all my life at the time. CM: Uh, did you ever see any combat. During your time there? LS: None at all, no. CM: So you have worked with amputees and just make sure I'm getting this right. And you developed different materials for prosthetics and stuff like this. LS: Right. CM: This might be a very specific question, but did you ever have a specific type of, I guess, limb that you were more of an expert about making a prosthetic about? LS: No, not really. CM: Just all over everywhere? Nice. LS: Yeah. CM: How long did you serve for LS: Well, actually I was in for two years spent a year and a half and Walter Reed as I send a prosthetic sweet. I was… CM: I'm sorry you cut out on my end. Could you say that again? LS: I said, well, I lived off base with my wife. So, All I had to do is come in for inspections every Wednesday and that's about it. I did my work at the prosthetic research lab, you know, work on with different types of materials. Developing them for the prosthetic. Was I was in a medical or even though I was a chemical engineer that was what the army did. CM: That's pretty interesting. And you mentioned that you were married. When did you get married? LS: Married in 1953. We were married now 67 years. CM: Congratulations. LS: Thank you. Maybe you should congratulate her instead. Both: (laugh) CM: Um, so did you have any kids well during those two years. Or was after you. You uh left the war. LS: Oh yeah I have three children. My daughter, the oldest was born in Walter Reed. In December, just before I got out of the army. I got out in February, and the other two my oldest son was born in Newton Massachusetts and the younger one was born in Nassau County, West Burry. CM: Did you move around a lot while being in the army or after the army? LS: No didn't move, but it's spent a year and a half at Walter Reed so. Which was to me. Very good. Good adventure. Really enjoyed that. CM: Do you have any fond memories of the time one years in our watery? LS: But that's, that's hard to say. I enjoy it almost every day live door post was married at the time. So it was interesting working at Walter Reed. The only thing that actually really bothered me. Was these burns. You know, little kids getting burned or something. And you had to treat them so. That that hurt more than anything else, amputees didn't bother me. CM: So you worked with all ages? LS: Pardon? CM: You worked with all age groups. Not just like older people you worked with even children as well. LS: Oh, no. We work with anyone that had a problem as an amputee. You know, we would then with the prosthesis. Get the right match. In fact, any of these soldiers that used to have a hook. We gave an actual. Hand and we had gloves that fit over it. That was just look like skin. And we would color it to the person's coloring, you know if you put one hand up and you have one hand down the one that's up is like a different color was the blood rushes down to the other one. Was interesting is interesting matching it up. CM: Very, fascinating actually. So you said that after you left you still worked on prosthetics? LS: What were you saying? CM: I was saying that after you left the army, you still worked with prosthetics. Correct. LS: No. When I left the army. As a chemical engineer worked in the chemical fields were mainly in plastic companies. My forte was plastics at the time. CM: Uh. oh. Okay, so were. You said what you were born in 1989 was that? LS: No born 1931 CM: Someone gave me the wrong information. CM: You are alive during World War II? Correct? LS: Was I what I'm sorry. CM: You were alive during World War II? Correct? LS: No. I was alive during the World War II, yes. CM: But never fought? LS: Well I was born in 1931. WWII was 41-42 era later. I never got involved with that. Just did the Korean situation. CM: Got it. Uh, you were around when the TV became a thing in the microwave as well. Do you remember that at all impacting your life, those technological developments? LS: Really No really, you know, I was too young. And I think at that time. CM: Uh, did you ever have a favorite president? LS: any have what? CM: I'm sorry. I'll repeat that again. Did you ever have a favorite president when you're alive, like someone you really rooted for LS: Well, when I was born, FDR was president and he's really only one that I grew up with. And of course, it was Truman and Eisenhower. They came later. CM: Let's see. So did you ever go on any trips like family trips, when after, you know, Vietnam, or even? My bad after the Korean War? Or even with your family back when you were younger. LS: Oh yeah, we used to go. Spent a lot of time in the Long Beach and Long Island. We used to rent a little a house there that it was that was good memories at that time. Oh, you're on the beach. He. Well, Everybody takes care you and it was enjoyable. CM: Sounds like a nice community. LS: Yeah, yeah, we can. We try to do things as a family, my father. Is from Lithuania. So I'm first generation. My mother's from Poland. So in fact, at that time I used to speak a lot of Yiddish and some Hebrew, not much anymore. As I was growing up, they learned English with me. So we always spoke English so happy today they became fluent in that time. My father live to 97 CM: And you mentioned that you speak Hebrew? Can I ask what religion you believe in if any at all? LS: Sorry, I didn't catch that. CM: I was just asking what religion you would consider yourself. LS: Oh. Jewish I’m Jewish. CM: Cool. LS: Yeah Hebrew would be the religion really CM: Yeah……..So you got any grandkids now or still just your kids? LS: Well, I got eight grandchildren and one great-grandson. Five girls and three boys the grandchildren and the great is a little boy. Who is now three CM: Do you ever have. Like big family gatherings where everybody comes back together. LS: Yeah, we used to lay back, but not anymore. It's…You know with scattered all over the United States. One sons in Massachusetts, one sons in New Hampshire in North Carolina my daughter is in Michigan so it gets a little difficult to have a family reunion. But thank God for the technology we can have it on their computer like zoom and everything. CM: Did you ever have a favorite sports team or growing up. LS: The what CM: A favorite sports teams. LS: Oh yeah, New York Mets. We were strong Mets fans. Living on Long Island. We used to go to as many games as we could. My wife and I, she's a strong Mets fan and even stronger than me. CM: Do you feel like you've bonded even more because the Mets. LS: Yeah CM: Kid your kids also decide to follow the Mets, or do they have their own sports teams. LS: No it’s a Mets. Always the Mets. CM: Always the Mets. LS: Otherwise, I came my wife, but I think she married me because I was a Mets fan. CM: Uh, did your wife work for living as well or? LS: Yeah, when we lived in Long Island. She used to be the airport manager with Bennington airport in Bennington, Vermont, and she enjoyed that. In fact, I have a private pilot's license and I used to have Brendan, I own the Cessna 150 so comes, you know, weekends I go flying and every once in a while. My wife being a weather person had to report the weather. She asked me to go up and see how high the clouds are so I take the plane and go 6000 feet. Oh it was interesting. Oh, I have a pilot's license. I did a lot of things. Growing up Just…. CM: Sorry, it looks like you froze there for the last second. You said you did a lot of things growing up to do stay anything after that. LS: Well, it's, every day was really an adventure. Got a pilot's license. I'd love flying. You know, private pilots, but whatever I can do, I do. In my younger days. CM: So, how did you meet your wife? LS: I was at that time was going to City College of New York and she was the Brooklyn College and we had a party. So that's when we met but didn't really get together with her until she found out that I had a car she stuck around. CM: Have you have any. What was that, sorry. You seem to freeze these LS: I was gonna say she thought I was crazy. Once I used to tell her I had my socks painted on my feet because anytime I took a bath is something watch the socks at the same time. I thought that she would just leave but never happened. CM: When did you get married, then? LS: 53. Married 67 years. In fact, October 24 was the 67th year CM: Nice. LS: Yeah, it's been a long time I was 20 years old at the time. CM: Let's see. Did you, uh. Did you ever take your grandchildren on a vacations as well or was that more just the occasional visit LS: Yeah, we used to go a lot to Gilbert Lake State Park. That was a in Otsego County New York, we have family gatherings there we rented a couple of cabins. But then as the kids got older, you know, they went their way. We went our way. So this is what happens. I got eight grandchildren and one great. CM: Hmm. So you worked at a plastic factory. You mentioned before, or at least some form of a plant, um, was there a specific product that you were making or just all variety of plastics. LS: It was plastics. Lot of work In a chemical plant. We had vinyl chloride, we may polyvinyl chloride. Plasticizes. A long time ago. CM: Is there a specific year at least that you can think of that stands out in your mind like. Whether that was a specific event. I'm not let's hold on let me rephrase that a bit better. Do you remember a global event that you can recall from whatever year you can, I guess? Think of like something that really impacted you? LS: Well, the only thing I can remember is I got a chemical burn and I was six weeks in bandages. So I went up as I was a plant manager at the time in this place to come to me and we've had some problems with one of the filters and as I turned away the gasket blow when they hit me in the back. I ended up in bandages for six weeks. But there's no scarring or anything. Thank God for that. CM: Thank goodness. Was that the worst injury that ever happened, or did you see worse at the plant. LS: That's the what. I'm sorry. CM: Was that the worst injury that happened at the plant. Or… LS: No, it was a work injury. CM: Yeah, I was there anything else. Did you see any other injuries at the plant that may have been just as bad or worse? LS: No, that was, that was the worst one. I used to run the plastic plant also. So I did a lot of experimental work and PepsiCola and PepsiCala bottles and we'd make different type of plastics and every once in a while, a bottle would just rupture. I do remember one point that when I was in a pilot plant. A gasket on one of the reactor just blew and just drove me across the room didn't get hurt or anything was just wild thing like slow motion when you request the room, but unfortunately, I used to take a lot of chances. CM: Uh, so going back to your college years. Do you remember a class that I guess inspired you to go into Chemical Engineering or was it just something that happened? LS: What was interesting because when I signed up. I signed up to be an accountant and at the last minute. And I said, no, I'm going to go into chemical engineering. I like the instructor guy was a Dr. Newman, he dismantle the German planes set to the war, very interesting guy. Unfortunately, he stuttered. So he would look. Write on the blackboard what his right hand and have an eraser in his left hand and as he's writing. He's erasing oh yeah to be quick with him. But hey, he's my one of my outstanding. Versus the other one was a doctor Kalani which we just talked about different types of materials. You know, you, you're bringing up memories that I haven't thought of and years. CM: Did you have a lot of friends in college, or was it more just going there for the work LS: Well, I went to college after. When I was stationed Walter Reed and I got out of the Army and I went back to college on the GI Bill. So gave me up to refinish shopping and get my degree. Was I had interrupted getting the degree to go as I was drafted so. But then I finished up. CM: Uh, What were your feelings. Once you find out you're being drafted? LS: Always my feelings of being drafted? Wasn't too happy about it. I don't leave home. I had to go. Well, you know, that's life. CM: Did you make any good friends while being in the army? LS: Yeah, I had, I had a good friend. But you know when I got out. He didn't live in the same part of the country that I lived in, and we just, you know, we lost contact its unfortunate but… very unfortunate. Know also blame myself on that because I never took the time to reconnect with any of these people, you know, just busy at home and it's more…(Internet issues) CM: So when you finally were able to be home. Did you do anything for, I guess? Did you continue your reading hobby or did you delve into other hobbies? LS: Oh, The time when I got out of the Army. I had, I was married, and I had a daughter was born December 30 and uh Walter Reed. So there was really not too much time to do anything. Just trying to survive at that point. And though we moved back and we live in a small apartment that too far from the folks area. It was nice. Then went out on my own and Got a degree in started to work for our first company I worked for was Dewy and Allyn chemical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CM: Did you just freeze or are you still there. Up. You're moving again. Sorry you froze for that you mentioned you worked at Cambridge and then I couldn't the picture. Stop moving and sound stop going through. LS: Yeah Well, it worked for the company called Dewy and Allyn chemical company. And they plastics were really was my forte. I really enjoyed. You know, trying to develop them and whatever. CM: So have the Mets brought you back for any. Baseball games or have you been kind of off the baseball trail for a while. Hold on a second, it appears that a connections a bit unsecure. So let's, I'm just gonna wait for that to settle down, be a bit before I ask any more questions. LS: Okay. I’m at your beck and call. CM: Thank you very much. Let's see, it looks like it's starting to settle down….. Okay. So going back to the Mets. Have you guys been to a recent game or I guess in recent years games? Or have you guys really just been able to watch from a distance at this point? LS: I'm sorry I didn't catch that? CM: Uh, have you been to have you been back to watch the Mets? Like, have you been there in person at all? In recent years, or have it has it had to be more at a TV viewpoint at a radio? LS: Five years ago was. We used to live in Bennington, Vermont. Right now I live in Saratoga Springs live in a 55 and over community. CM: And how'd you end up in Saratoga Springs from Bennington, Vermont. LS: Well, lived in Bennington Vermont first. And we used to come over to Saratoga Springs all the time. So we decided when I had the opportunity CM: To move here. LS: Now, I like Saratoga Springs. Yeah. CM: Did you guys come for the horse racing or just for everything. LS: No. Just, just because we like Saratoga Springs much better than Bennington, Vermont, but more things going on here. And then, my wife never liked Bennington, Vermont CM: Would you say Bennington, Vermont. Was your least favorite place to live. LS: I like Bennington, Vermont, and in fact I've, you know, I've lived in a many places. It's like anything else. And you can live in a big city or a small town, you can vegetate or be active and I enjoyed being active. I enjoy politics so. CM: What so you were a big follower politics throughout the years? LS: My what? CM: I was asking you said that you were very big follower of politics throughout the years? Yes? LS: Yeah, well I enjoy politics enjoy getting involved with the in Bennington and when I was in Saratoga Springs. I got involved with the politics in Saratoga Springs. LS: It just makes life interesting CM: Did you run for anything or was it just more support? LS: Than I will. I'm sorry? CM: Did you run for anything in Saratoga? Was it just more for support? LS: No, I Was a Housing, Commissioner, at one point. Well, five years. I didn't get that much involved. I say, mainly in the background. Now, it was a housing commissioner about 5 years. CM: Did you get into politics anywhere else, or was it just more Saratoga that you really were more involved with? LS: It really was just Saratoga. Somewhat involved in Burlington, Vermont, but It was just a different atmosphere. CM: Where you work in Bennington, Vermont. (Computer issues) LS: When? CM: When I'm sorry continue what you were saying before, I didn't realize you were still going. LS: I'm sorry I didn't catch that. CM: I didn't mean to interrupt you. I thought you. The screen froze again there for a second. So I thought you finished but uh what I asked. Afterwards, was Where did you work. When you were in Burlington, Vermont, or were you retired then. LS: Oh, I worked in a hooskicfalls. Short for company called oh Mitsui. Which made the different types of chemicals and plastics. CM: Did you know what the plastics were used for? Was it just general purpose? LS: General purpose. CM: Did you have a favorite company you worked for or were they all kind of just the same? LS: You know that's a very interesting question. I enjoyed working for a company called Dewy and Allyn chemical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In fact, that's one of the first companies. I really enjoyed working for me to companies, otherwise I would not have worked there. CM: Did you ever travel throughout the country, or did you mainly stay on the east coast. LS: Oh no I travel, I used to go to Japan once a year business movement. Mitsui when I worked for them. Of course we had a plant in Osaka. So once a year I used to go to Japan is to go to Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka. It was nice. CM: Did you ever take your family with you, or was it just you that went LS: Yeah, I always took my wife with me. CM: Did you have a fun time in Tokyo. I was asking, did she have a fun time in Japan. LS: Yeah, I had a great time in Japan. Yeah, I love the people there. I was very involved with them. When I worked for a company called Mitsui. Mitsui was in Japan was in Osaka. So I used to go there once a year. CM: Did you travel anywhere else around the world.. Sorry. LS: What do you say born? CM: Sorry? LS: And it was nice going. Yeah, I used to take the wife with me, so she traveled almost everywhere that I went, you know, any, any business trip I went I took her. CM: Did you travel and… What was that LS: That really kept me out of trouble taking the wife. CM: A. Is there anywhere else around the world that you traveled LS: Any what CM: I was asking, Did you travel anywhere else around the world. You mentioned Japan did you like go to England? LS: Japan. I had, I had a client in Sweden used to go to Sweden once a year. Was in Belgium. And my son. When he was working. He was working for… he lived in Germany. Frankfurt, Germany, so I used to go visit him. Oh, my wife and I used to visit him. That's when we were able to travel. CM: Did any of your kids decide to follow in your footsteps and get a chemical engineering degree. LS: Yeah, my youngest son is a chemical engineer my oldest son is a industrial engineer. So they both went into engineering, and my one of my grandson's an engineer also worked for Lockheed Martin. I told I wish one of them became a doctor or something so we can have in the family. And work they all became engineers. CM: So you mentioned that your kids live all around the world. One lives in Germany, you've mentioned where the. Do you know where the rest of your kids are currently stationed? LS: My kids are now? CM: Yeah. LS: Yeah, my daughter, which is the oldest is in Michigan. My oldest son is in Littleton Mass and my youngest son is in North Carolina Greensboro, North Carolina. So all scattered also and they all did much better than I had so very happy about that. CM: Do you have a funny story from when you were having to I guess. Take care of your kids or an event that really sticks out in your mind. From the time when you saw them grow up. LS: Well, the only thing that sticks in my mind now. Is one we were watching my grandson, and in our apartment, and my son and I was there and he had a dirty diaper. So we go over Bennington together. My wife back to haven't cleaned him up. As my son said we took crap from no one Let's see. CM: Did you do any volunteer work throughout your life or was it mainly just working at the chemical plant. LS: Mainly chemical engineering CM: Uh, this might be one that I don't know if you have ever been here. Have you ever gone to Disney World, or have your kids ever dragged you to it to it. LS: Sorry? CM: Sorry you froze. Again, I didn't realize you were still talking. Um, I asked. CM: Did you kids ever drag you to like Disney World. LS: We went to Disney World only once. When I took all the kids that was way back Way back. We enjoyed it. We rented a house out there and spent about a week on Disney. CM: Did you ever enjoy going to see movies and stuff Like that. LS: Ever what I'm sorry. CM: Did you ever go to see movies through your life or some point or even like Broadway. Shows or just shows in general. LS: Yeah, we used to go to some we go, Broadway, show. Unfortunately, we can always afford the top tier in a balcony. Never New York I assure, but we took in as many shows as we could.LS: My wife was a folk singer. So she works. She's worked with some group in New York City. CM: Did you get to meet any famous people doing that? LS: Famous people? Yeah, the only people I met was my wife. Both (laugh). Yeah, we met… can't think of his name….Earl, Ray James. Met him on a plane. Can’t think of his name, unfortunately. CM: It happens. Uh, so you used to live in Brooklyn? Then when you got older, you got drafted, then you went. Back to sorry I'm forgetting the name. It is. LS: Whose name. CM: Does you're trying to member my make sure I'm making sure I'm keeping track of the places. What was not Waltz, it's a. Walter reed that was it. You went used to live in Walter reed and then you went t Cambridge and then Bennington? LS: Yes. CM: Okay, just making sure I'm keeping track of everywhere. You've gone in that timeframe. Did you ever take any road trips anywhere? LS: Any road trips CM: Yeah, like a long times in the car. Going from place to place. LS: No, never. Whenever we whenever we travel, we either went by plane or by Bus, but never car. CM: Did you ever have to. LS: No that’s not true. No because we got married. We took a trip down to Florida by car I drove down there. CM: Did you enjoy your time in Florida when you went LS: Pardon CM: I asked, how was your time in Florida? LS: How much time in Florida? CM: How was the trip to Florida? LS: It was good. Those were the days when I can you know drive a car those distances wife also drove. We also had a camping trailer that I used to lug behind my car. So we did a lot of camping used to camp up in Canada. That was nice. CM: Was Canada your favorite place to camp. LS: Montreal we camped up there. CM: Did you ever take your kids camping. LS: You look frozen. CM: I think You're right, I think it looks like our screen, stop being frozen. Did you ever take your kids camping? LS: Well, yeah, we always took the kids, my daughter never liked it. But she wasn't we're not going to leave home. It was not an outdoors person. Boys loved it, of course. CM: Did you ever have a running with wild animals well camping? LS: Never have a what? Sorry. CM: Did you ever run into like wild animals? When camping like deer or moose? LS: No, I never saw any of those things. CM: You ever go fishing while Camping LS: No. I don't, I don't really fish. I went once with my son and equal fish those sunfish wanted to take it home for show and tell. Wouldn’t last anyway. CM: Did you kids ever try and…..Continue saying. No, no, no, it our connection keeps freezing up so I you freeze up and I think you're done. So I tried to ask another question but continue what you were saying. LS: I didn't catch it. I'm sorry. CM: I was just saying it seems that our screens. Keep freezing. So I assumed you finished what you were saying. But continue what you were just saying a second ago. LS: I'm finished CM: Okay. I was going to ask, have your kids ever tried sneaking like something bizarre into the show and tell classes? LS: Not really. Not really nothing bizarre. Everything was nice and calm when we went CM: Did all your kids go the same school or did you send them different places. LS: Now what? I'm sorry. CM: It's okay. Did you send your kids to different schools or did they all start in the same place? LS: Actually they wanted different schools, my daughter went was in Brooklyn, New York, she went to No, no, she was in Walter Reed. So they all wanted different schools. I know that. What schools. I don't remember. CM: That's perfectly fine. Uh, did you back in your high school years, get into any high school quote on quote shenanigans. LS: And I want. I'm sorry. CM: Did you ever get into any mischief and high school LS: No, no. CM: Okay. LS: Went to Lafayette high school, Brooklyn graduated from there and went to ccny CM: Okay, that should be about wrapping up our interview time LS: Pardon? CM: I was saying that that should be wrapping up our interview time it is 150 we started at a 1250 so it's it's been an hour. Thank you for talking with me. LS: Okay. CM: Do you have any questions or anything. LS: No, I want to thank you CM: Thank you so much for spending your time. LS: very interesting. Yeah. CM: Now. Okay. Uh, I'll stop the recording now. Let's make sure I can do that these tech things don't always go well. Second Transcription of Lou Schneider CM: Today is 11/18/2020. I am the interviewer CM and to view it in Luke Snyder, would you like to introduce yourself? Lou Schneider: Pardon? Cooper Murphy: Would you like to introduce yourself? LS: I’m Lou Schneider. CM: So, Lou. Are you find with this recording being used in our project at Skidmore, and possibly be accessed by the public domain. LS: Of course. CM: Okay, so let's get started. So you talked about how a you're in the Korean War for two years. Correct? LS: Well, I was actually during the Korean War situation. I was stationed in Washington, DC. I worked for the Army prosthetics research lab where we did research and development on different type of materials for prosthesis, which was a very interesting job. CM: So what would you say would be the timeframe from. When you first joined to when it finally ended. LS: Well, I wanted 53 to 5519 CM: Okay, so can you kind of walk me through the experience from day getting drafted to basically what happened next to when you were allowed to go home. LS: (clears throat) Well, I was drafted, but I was also married at the time. And because I guess because I was married and being a chemical engineer they station me and Washington DC, Walter Reed Army Medical hospital which I worked for the prosthetics Research Lab, which was good duty. CM: Okay, so you got drafted, you got brought to the prosthetics research lab. And were you given any training and then sent over as well, or did you ever actually go to Korea? LS: No, I had no training at all. You know, was I have a degree in chemical engineering. So they figured smart enough anyway. CM: Sorry, just writing down some stuff. Okay, so you got you had the medical not the medical the chemical engineering degree and you're just flown over. Did you have you ever saw in combat, as you told me before. They never made you do like a boot camp or anything like that. Correct. LS: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we had a go eight weeks of infantry training and then eight weeks of medical training. Was I was assigned to the Medical Corps. CM: Okay, so when would you say you actually got to go over to be stationed in Korea was that between 54-55 LS: Pardon again. CM: Sorry, what was the actual part where you got to go over to Korea was that between like 54 and 55 or was you LS: 53 and 55 CM: You fine. OK. Cool, cool. How many patients would you say you saw a day over at a in Korea? LS: You mean and Walter Reed work they're willing to read amputees. And research and development on different type of materials and now we're actually our test students as I would call them. We work with about eight different amputees that lost limbs that we're not the same, you know, arms, two legs. It was interesting work. CM: Okay. That's your wrap up that little segment. So, uh, what's the war ended did you, uh, did you remember the experience of finding out when people discovered the double helix? Just curious? LS: Not really, no. CM: Yeah, I figured. I just want to see that for myself. I'm a bio major. Okay. So, Uh, sent after the Korean War ended. You were alive during you know the whole space race. Correct. LS: Well, when the Korean War ended, and I got discharged from the army. I actually went back to school. And went back for my masters, but I never completed it. Married at the time had a kid, you know, it's very, very difficult. So how to actually find a job, which I did. I worked for a company called doing Dewy and Allyn chemical company as an engineer, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CM: Uh, yeah, I remember that actually from last time. So going quickly back to the space race and everything. Do you remember like all those events like Sputnik and everything like that, and if so, how did that make you feel during that time period? LS: Sputnik? CM: Yeah, when the Satellite went up LS: Russia put the spacecraft. I really didn't think much about it at the time. Yeah, I figured that you know I’ve government knew what they were doing it. We're going to put up something also and I was not involved with it so didn't really care too much. CM: What about when you heard about someone was able to go on the moon? LS: That was interesting. I mean, that was the first to me to first have space travel to go to various places the various planets. It was exciting space is very exciting the space station was also very exciting. CM: I bet, especially since I was the first of any of its kind. LS: Yeah. So after the space race. Do you remember anything as well of like when the Cold War was starting to become more of a thing? Like for instance Cuban Missile Crisis. How did that affect you at all during one that was? LS: Not really. Not at all. CM: Just curious. OK, so moving on from that you mentioned that you got married a what time again did you actually get married at LS: Like what I'm what CM: What year did you get married again. LS: 1954 CM: Okay, and where did you say the wedding was LS: Wedding was in Brooklyn, New York. CM: Do you remember where you went for your honeymoon. LS: Well, I was in the army at the time and I had a week off so we stopped off in Rahway, New Jersey. The first night was it was raining and then we ended up in Atlantic City. And then, of course, I had a week before I was had to go back to Walter Reed. In fact, my daughter was born in Walter Reed in 1954. The fact, December 30 1954 CM: Okay. So you mentioned before and unfortunately wasn't able to get this down to my notes. You said that your favorite place was either New port, a Walter Reed? LS: Was what? CM: You mentioned that you moved around a lot in your life, last time when we talked, and you mentioned that either your favorite place was Walter Reed or Newport, do you remember which one was LS: Walter Reed. Fact, though I was stationed there for a year and a half, and the prosthetics Research Lab, which was to me very interesting work, you know, working with these amputees. They were our test specimens on the materials that we developed and we work with about eight amputees. They were fun group. CM: Do you remember any of the uh I guess. Patients you had like anything specific about them. Besides, you know, I'm being amputees’. LS: Well, there's one thing that always sticks out on my mind. We had a nurse that lost part of her nose. And she came in to be fitted for plastic nose, but we come back every week because there was a stain on the on the nose. She smoked so what we did is we gave her a dozen noses and said, go home and do what want. In fact, we had one amputate that lost his left arm, and he built his friend that he can swim beat him in one lap and no water in the pool at Walter Reed and we fitted him with a fin. So yeah, I'll tell you, we had a lot of fun. They were a fun group they didn't feel sorry for themselves. I said, this is it. And we'll do the best we can. CM: So, if you don't mind? Actually, could you give me like a walkthrough figure daily I guess life back when used to live and watery? LS: Well, I was married at the time. So we live off post and of course, I had a car so how do. (cough) Excuse me, actually I was assigned to Walter Reed, but I worked in a place called Forest Glen. That's where the prosthesis was. Every day we had a call for an inspection. At seven o'clock in the morning. That was about it. Was just a routine. My daughter was born and Walter Reed 1954 December 30 CM: And when you got home here. What do you normally do when you got back to your house? LS: In Washington, DC. CM: Yes. LS: Was it. No, just nothing just stayed with the wife, and we went to various places. I love this Smithsonian Institute. So we used to go there pretty often but till being in the army. I think we got a stipend of 250- $280 a month and we had to make that thing last I remember that she's we saved up so we could buy, one egg roll. CM: A fan of egg rolls? Are you a fan of egg rolls? LS: Oh yeah, I like, first of all, I like Asian food. CM: Can you remember where you tasted the best Asian food? LS: Where, what I'm sorry. CM: Can you remember where you test my bad, tasted the best Asian food. LS: Best Asian foods that actually were testing best for when I used to go to Japan. It's not the same. It's, it's, it's different. CM: Okay, so after working with amputees’ and everything you said you worked at a chemical plants. Correct? LS: Of work where CM: I'm sorry had you worked at multiple different chemical plants. LS: Work for a company first company was Dewy and Allyn Chemical Company, which was in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And then I took a job than on Long Island and I worked for a company called Rubber Corporation of America, mainly in plastics. Plastics was my forte. That's what I've always studied CM: Yeah. You mentioned that that's a quite a bit. And it's very interesting, too. But I want to ask, did you ever remember having to witness the implement of the stationary computers. Business computers into the workplace, like those giant machines on the wall that you plug in numbers to. LS: Oh, no. In fact, the first time I work with computers is when I left the army. When I went to work for Rubber Cooperation of America. They gave me a computer take home so CM: Cool. Did you like using a computer. LS: Yeah. Haven't been without one since. CM: Especially in this time I'm betting? LS: My wife has the laptop, of course, but I use the one stationary here in my office at home. CM: Yeah, I have a stationary too LS: I like it CM: Oh, let's see. So you mentioned. Actually, speaking of your wife and family and everything. You mentioned that you like to go camping, in Montreal. Correct? LS: Yeah, we had a camping trailer had a 16 foot. Uh what was it called I can't think of the name, but we used to do a lot of camping up and down the East Coast spent time of Florida Hollywood, Florida. I remember that, But I enjoy camping up in Canada. In those days you had no problems getting through into Canada. Long time ago. CM: Yeah. I've been to Canada. A couple times real nice up there, but I was gonna ask. Did you just like start camping out of a whim, or did you use to go camping before he had you got with your family and everything. LS: Oh yeah, when I was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I belong to the Boy Scouts. So we always camp. And I just continue doing that. I enjoyed it. But my daughter never did. CM: So you were a boy scout when you're younger? LS: pardon CM: You were a boy scout when you were younger? LS: Oh, yeah. LS: Did a lot of things when I was younger. Some foolish some not CM: You got any stories from the Boy Scouts or was it just kind of a normal experience as you would say LS: Normal experience. You know, you read about what they what was going on with the abuse. We never had that in Brooklyn, New York. CM: Be my guess. I'll pause the recording. (Time passes for the phone call) Yeah, sorry about that. That's new. I'm definitely gonna have to talk to my phone provider about that one. LS: Interesting, though. CM: I know. so, uh, speaking of what is there anything about your life that you'd like to share discuss just anything that you thought you wanted to share from last time that you didn't get to? LS: I don’t know, growing up in Brooklyn, New York was an adventure because Coney Island was my stomping ground used to go there pretty often. And uh but that's really, that's about it. I enjoyed living in Brooklyn. My wife still has family there. So we go back occasionally, spent a lot of time in Coney Island. In fact, and Coney Island we were up on the subway, which is the L and we watch Luna Park burn when that the big fire. CM; Oh, yeah, yeah. LS: Then I think Trump put up his building or whatever. CM: So when I'm not actually I don't have to remember the date that have Luna Park apart burned do you? LS: What date. CM: The date when a Luna Park burn. LS: Don't even know how had to be in be in the early 50sif I am not mistaken. CM: I'll look it up later I was just curious if you knew off the top of your head. LS: No, I don't. CM: That’s probably fine. Well, I guess we've reached the last question, unless you have anything else you want to say before then? LS: That everything that CM: So if you had to give advice to, I guess, the current generation, what would it be if you don't have any that's fine. Just curious what you? CM: Great advice. LS: Have a sense of humor. CM: That is a good one….What do you think it's important to have a sense of humor? LS: What if you if you what? CM: Sorry, I was asking, why do you think it is important to have a sense of humor? LS: Oh, You can't be serious soul, your life and the lifetime. You got to find humor in everything. I think that levels you offer keeps you know basic. You know, if you don't have a sense of humor. I mean, like to be very boring. CM: Indeed, Okay. Actually, I did have one question. Did you ever go camping with your parents. LS: My friends? CM: Your friends or your parents? LS: No. First of all, my father came from Lithuania and my mother from Poland, so of course they do that, you know, they were of the older generation. No, we went most camping I did was with friends. When I was in a boy scouts or, when we got older and I had a family. We have a 16 foot trailer camper that we used to use. I Love that daughters and never did. But I did that the boys did of course. So we used to camp all the way up. Used to go to Hollywood, Florida. We camped up in, as I said in Canada. Those were the days when you get into Canada pretty easily, which you can't anymore. CM: Okay, well that's all the questions I had so unless there's anything again, you can think of that you want to add that would basically wrap it up. LS: I can't think of anything at this point. I think you did a good job. CM: Thank you. I hope my teacher thinks that too. LS: I hope so. CM: Okay, I'm gonna stop the recording. Now then. Okay. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Lou Schneider Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 26, 2020 November 18, 2020 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Saratoga Senior Memory Project Description An account of the resource An 89-year-old Koren war vet from Brooklyn describes his life history. From his time in Brooklyn as a kid. His experience as a medical core in Korea, and then finally his life after with his family as a chemical engineer. This interview was conducted as part of the Saratoga Springs Senior Center project “Preserving Our Past”. Language A language of the resource English (en) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooper Murphy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cooper Murphy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Skidmore College Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Audio recording Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History 1950's camping Chemical engineer Korean War Medical Core oral history fall 2020 saratoga senior center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New rail station almost ready to open Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/29/04 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooper, Robin K. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Daily Gazette Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/95208d7121a2a8d3dfe0ebae97ef625d.jpg 71025962f808a2cb276c509791912820 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Trail project on path to reality Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/18/05 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooper, Robin K. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Daily Gazette Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource Outgoing administration eyes key land deals...Now, less than two weeks before a new mayoral administration steps into City Hall, the outgoing mayor and city attorney are on track to complete three key land deals to amek the Spring Run Trail a reality. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/ec78ef488a942970e579c6fbdbbdaa8d.jpg 3c13174822cb262a32b200d6a4e0ac6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Map Cartographic document Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 86 x 129 cm 46 x 53 in Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jordana Dym Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 2/1/2015 URL Library of Congress, <a title="Cramer Mott 1879 Map, Saratoga Springs" href="http://www.loc.gov/item/00561206/" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/item/00561206/</a> Date Depicted (Numeric) Date that the information on the item depicts. In many cases, this will be the same date as that in the date field, but there will be exceptions. For example, a historical map drawnin 1890 might show Saratoga Springs as it was in 1820. Or, the information on the map itself might include detailed information that enables us to extrapolate a date, for example, "based on a survey done in 1841." Many State Archives map catalog records refer to this as the "situation date." 1878 Date Published (Numeric) Date the item was printed. This will be set as a date field, accommodating only numbers. The field will be able to handle single dates or date ranges. This will not display, but will be indexed and searchable. 1879 Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. This includes information about items or events that are larger than just the map itself; for example, information about cartographers, a description of the map's historical significance (for example, "This is the first printed map of Saratoga Springs"), notes on the laws leading to a map's creation, descriptions of changes in state or county lines, information about the organization that created the map, how often maps were updated, and information about the map's creation and publication. Many State Archives maps have historical information in the catalog record -- that should be captured in this field. In his History of Saratoga County New York (1878), Nathanial Bartlett Sylvester described Saratoga Springs as “one of the world’s most famous watering holes, the peerless queen.” This map by Louis H. Cramer, receiver of taxes and land surveyor, and Jesse Mott, civil engineer and land surveyor – emphasizes the town’s more practical side and several different kinds of administrative divisions, drawing on knowledge gained over decades and through other collaborations; in 1876, Cramer contributed to a Saratoga County atlas published by J.B. de Beers, whose maps of Saratoga Springs contained many similar elements. The title draws attention to the “allotment lines and lots” of privately owned land. In addition to indicating private property owned by men including James M. Marvin, a director of the Saratoga Springs and Schenectady Railroad, the map’s blue boundaries show original Kayaderosseras Patent land divisions. The legends and text reveal still more: 6 election districts, the location of fire alarm boxes and even distances from the town hall to various parts of the community. The town’s recreational side does come through, however, in identifying many cultural institutions, including the famed Saratoga Race Course, built in 1864. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Library of Congress Scope Tiered geographical location (for example: United States, New York State, Saratoga County, Saratoga Springs, Congress Park). This field is here for two reasons: first, to present, at its narrowest level, the scope of the entire item (in other words, not every place name has to be listed here). Second, this field will allow for accurate and helpful narrowing and broadening of geographic searches. City Type For Maps: This subject field describes the purpose of the map. This is a controlled-vocabulary field using terms developed for this project. It is important to note that Map Theme and Map Type are not hierarchical, thus it is possible to have the two fields overlap or even duplicate each other. In determining the purpose of the map, the cataloger should consider the publisher, and, (if known) original use of the map. For example, a map that shows a wide variety of information might be a candidate for General in the map_type field, however, if it was prepared by the state geologist and contains, in addition to everything else, substantial information about the geology and topography of the state, it would be classified as a Geological map. Multiple terms can be used in this field. Cadastral maps Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Civic Life Property and Development Place of Publication The city (and if necessary) state or country of publication. Saratoga Springs, NY Scale The scale of the item (if known) 1 inch = 800 ft. Subject - Details This subject field describes the amount of detail in a map. For maps: (or layers) included on the map itself. This field might denote that the map includes information about, for example, Mountains, Railroads, Soundings, Elevation, or Population. These are controlled-vocabulary terms developed locally. The cataloger should be generous in assigning these terms -- even if only one canal is visible on the map, it should receive a "Canals" subject in this layer. Some of these terms are less specific than others and may warrant expansion in the Abstract field. For example, the "Businesses" term might be included here while the Abstract notes that the map shows mills and stores. Multiple terms can be used in this field. Saratoga and Washington Railroad Adirondack R.R. (N.Y.) Compass rose Index-- Hotels Index-- Schools Railroad Depot Saratoga Racing Association Public works (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)-- water works, water supply Subject - Geographic Library of Congress subject headings. For maps: for major geographic locations depicted on the map, followed, in nearly every case, by the "Maps" genre subheading. (For example, "Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) -- Maps.") This field will be especially important when the records from this collection are incorporated into larger databases and catalogs. Wilton (N.Y.) Milton (N.Y.) Greenfield (N.Y.) Malta (N.Y.) Saratoga Lake (N.Y. : Lake) Lake Lonely (N.Y. : Lake) Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Loughberry Lake (N.Y. : Lake) Excelsior Park (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Geyser Spring (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Caption This field will include transcriptions of text that appears on or around the item, at the discretion of the cataloger. It should include relevant bibliographic information that is not given in the title, for example, "Top of map: 'EXAMPLE NEEDED' Publisher and printer information might also be included in this field: "EXAMPLE NEEDED.'" Note that the location of the printed text is given in the field itself and that the caption information is always included in quotes. "Pathmasters Beats on Roads are designated by different colors and also by their numbers in circles" "Fire Alarm Boxes in Village are designated by their numbers in small circles" "All distance points on Roads are from Town Hall unless otherwise marked" "The Election Districts six in number, are designated by large, heavy letters No, with their corresponding figures, thus: N2 District No.1 includes all that part of the town lysing west of Broadway and north of Waring Avenue District No.2 includes all that part of the town lying east of Broadway and north of Lake Avenue and Schuylerville road. District No.3 includes all that part of the tow lysing west of Broadway and between Waring Avenue and West Congress Street. District No.4 includes all that part of the town lying east of Broadway and south of Lake Avenue and schyylerville road and north of Phila Street to Nelson Avenue and north of Union Avenue from Nelson Avenue to Fish Creek. District No. 5 includes all that part of the Town lysing west of Broadway and south of West Congress Street. District No. 6 includes all that part of the town lying east of Broadway and south of Phila Street to Nelson Avenue and south of Union Avenue from Nelson Avenue to Fish Creek. The streets which form the boundaries of these several districts are indicated by broken and dotted lines, thus -.-" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879 Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cramer, Louis H. Mott, Jesse Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Out of copyright. Type The nature or genre of the resource map Title A name given to the resource Map of the town of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Co., N.Y. map https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/8679f8faeab9c31a32d2c214c8262a80.jpg 44d0465a392592fc37c8fbfb3786a5a4 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/f11d6f74abde59c5db5fd80444f9bf6b.jpg 164f5266b45e85511085dbdaafa2dd04 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/4f086b981ad2e4a379ce10694145735b.jpg 7274132683119074ca63b23266b9ecca https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/56322edcdafd43faf992ae169b5a9be6.png f3e9ef34f5f6d04555c5711005fd15b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data book Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. This includes information about items or events that are larger than just the map itself; for example, information about cartographers, a description of the map's historical significance (for example, "This is the first printed map of Saratoga Springs"), notes on the laws leading to a map's creation, descriptions of changes in state or county lines, information about the organization that created the map, how often maps were updated, and information about the map's creation and publication. Many State Archives maps have historical information in the catalog record -- that should be captured in this field. Includes a "Map of the Village of Saratoga Springs" on two sheets (downtown Saratoga Springs) and a plan of the Union Hotel on one sheet. An unusually detailed view of the buildings (including cottages, opera house, and bath). Illustrated with woodcuts. No authorship of images provided. Saratoga Springs Public Library holds the 1874 edition. Subject - Details This subject field describes the amount of detail in a map. For maps: (or layers) included on the map itself. This field might denote that the map includes information about, for example, Mountains, Railroads, Soundings, Elevation, or Population. These are controlled-vocabulary terms developed locally. The cataloger should be generous in assigning these terms -- even if only one canal is visible on the map, it should receive a "Canals" subject in this layer. Some of these terms are less specific than others and may warrant expansion in the Abstract field. For example, the "Businesses" term might be included here while the Abstract notes that the map shows mills and stores. Multiple terms can be used in this field. Union Hotel (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Subject - Geographic Library of Congress subject headings. For maps: for major geographic locations depicted on the map, followed, in nearly every case, by the "Maps" genre subheading. (For example, "Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) -- Maps.") This field will be especially important when the records from this collection are incorporated into larger databases and catalogs. Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Travel and Tourism Cities and Towns URL 1868 edition available at <a href="https://archive.org/details/saratogaitsmin00daws">archive.org</a>. Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jordana Dym Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 8/17/2014 Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga: its mineral waters, and their use in prevention and eradicating disease, and as a refreshing beverage Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1868 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available [Russell Bros.] Description An account of the resource A guide to Saratoga Springs, New York, with emphasis on its mineral springs. Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dawson, Charles Carroll https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/daf751948e1d097767a5ec451ecc5953.jpg 043b9f62a8a4aad22bbb6ed73824c65a https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/05e4d29b23c0ba2dc6d9830aeea3570a.mp3 ff6259f1759f07125b156f82e3fb96ba https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/516384fac4f44cf011fcd7a2c54514c9.pdf e3b75bf026f6bac65ff10bfd8ca91372 PDF Text Text 00:00:00.000 Jd: Are we recording? Okay. Kris: Ready? Okay. 00:00:04.322 Kris: Hi! My name is umm Kris Leggiero and I've been here, I am the SGA accountant at Skidmore for 17 years. Jd: Umm my question is, cause I know you are from long Island and then you came here, but before we get into the transition, what was your favorite childhood memory in long Island? 00:00:25.000 Kris: Okay. My favorite childhood memory on Long Island, uh does it have to be in Long Island, or, cause I did, you know I did, umm , I grew up also, you know, I lived in Brooklyn for a short period in time and for, I think more of my memories come from Brooklyn actually, which is really interesting. I just remember cause when we, when we lived in Brooklyn, It was, we lived in an apartment building. I grew up with my four sisters in a one bedroom. So by the time we moved to long island, it was a little bit different, and we had a house and you know everyone had their own bedroom so It was a little bit different growing up, but being in a room with my four sisters with these beds lined up one after the other, and, it, those are the memories that really stick in my head, because we were so bonded because we spent that much time, you know together in that room, whether it was fighting or laughing, or whatever, being silly. Or jumping from, this is a really good memory because I just remember it so vividly. We would jump from bed to bed to bed and go back. And we all, we all waited for my parents to come in and yell at us. [00:01:35.000] And they never did, I guess they figured we were, you know having so much fun and we were staying out of their hair. So, they, were like just let them do. It's funny because there are so many memories, but those are the ones that stick in my mind. Just the four of us in that room, late at night, probably staying up later than we should have been and just laughing and bonding and til this day we are just so close. [00:02:00.368] And I think it’s because of those moments of being so close back then. Jd: It's so interesting that you say that because a lot of times when you speak about your accent and you refer to it as your long island accent but then your memories are just from Brooklyn. Kris: Yes? Long Island I guess, you know, I moved to Long Island when I was in fourth grade and umm, but I guess. we were kind of, well my sisters were older and we just started going our own ways. And Long Island, I think my biggest memories of Long Island which is you know, I don’t know, it was just more of like when I was older and able to go out. And going to the different clubs and having fun with friends, and that period of my time as opposed to, but the �memories that I love the most are when I was younger and that's why I kind of go back to Brooklyn. [00:02:57.752] Jd: Those were the foundations. I wanted to know what influenced you to move to Saratoga. Kris: Oh! That's a good question. If you ever been to Long Island, there's a lot that influenced me. (laughing). So actually, what really happen so my children were not in school yet and a good friend of mine who I grew up with, I knew since oh my gosh, we were probably nine or ten years old, knew her through school and till this day we are best friends, [00:03:34.487], umm she went to school up here. By the time, she was in grad school, I guess and moved up here. I was already, I was married, I had kids, she was you know still in her path. I would come and visit her. I always use to come up. The funny thing is about is, she lived in Albany. The funny thing is, when they say you know you're from Long Island, and you may appreciate it this, I am not really sure, but when they say you know you are from Long Island when you think that Westchester is upstate, well that is so true. [00:04:05.000] because I never realized there was something to up North. I use to come visit her in Albany, and it was nice whatever. One weekend she says, "Let's go to Saratoga" and I'm like, "What is Saratoga?" (Laughing) So we came up actually for the big race, the Travers race, and we came up and I was like oh my goodness why did you not bring me here. It was just a beautiful town, everything I was looking for, and I love simple, I love being simple. At the time it was just a very simple [00:04:50.000] quiet town, fell in love with it. Ended up getting in touch with the builder, had a house built very quickly, before my kids got into school, and just moved up. And love it. I feel like I am on vacation every single day. Jd: Till this day? Kris: Till this day and I've been up here since '93. Over, way over 20 years, just absolutely love it. Jd: That leads me to my next question. What surprised you the most about Saratoga, what made you love it so much? (Laughing) Kris: So, what really surprised me about Saratoga, again that's a really good question again because this is another vivid memory. I was, I was probably on my first couple weeks here, and I am on Broadway, [00:05:32.608] and grab a cup of coffee, just kind of getting use to the town and seeing what stores are there. That was just about the time where bigger stores were popping up like Eddy Bauerer, Anne Taylor and all that section was not even there, and those hotels were not even here. And I grab my cup of coffee and I am walking through town and you know, just kind of minding my own business, and every �person, I am not joking, every person I pass was like "good morning, good morning" and I am looking around, are they talking to me. I was just not use to that. People are just umm, you know. people are just really friendly and they stop to talk to you. That, and on Long Island everything is just rush, rush, rush, people aggravated, traffic and then moving up here and just like living and it’s a funny thing, I was talking to someone just yesterday and she was making fun of my walk actually because I walk to slow, but that never was like that. As soon as I moved up here, I'm like that’s it, I am not rushing around anymore. I am just taking my time. That moment in town when people were saying hello to me, and I figured someone was behind me (laughing) [00:06:55.870], that they were talking to someone else. It's a great town, it’s an absolutely fabulous town. Jd: That's why I came to Skidmore, and financial aid, but when I came to visit everyone was so nice and saying hi all the time. It is so different in New York City. You don't say hi to anyone, you barely make eye contact. Kris: It is so different. It’s like this is the way I want to live. This is the way, you know, I knew in my core, that’s who I was because I love talking to people and I love being friendly, but down in Long Island. They will look at you with three heads, they are not going, you know, there like, "What do you want?" [00:07:37.333] Jd: It's almost suspicious when people are too nice in New York City. Kris: Yes, exactly. Jd: What was one thing that New York City had that Saratoga didn’t? Kris: Long Island? Something that Long island had? Jd: or Brooklyn Kris: Well, I have to go back to Long Island, so the thing that Long Island had that Saratoga does not have, and something that I wish it had, ugh the beaches. Without a doubt, without a doubt. I grew up ten minutes from the ocean. We use to ride our bikes down there and spend my whole summers there. The lakes are lovely, I will not go in a lake. But they are lovely. But the beach I so miss, but I do go back just for that. Jd: Are there beaches by here? Kris: You know, it will take me about three and a half hours to get to Jones beach on Long Island, but I guess Massachusetts. Everything is still probably around three hours away. �Jd: Nothing around here Kris: No lovely lakes, that’s about it, but it doesn’t compare. (laughing)You can’t jump in the waves in a lake.[00:09:02.705] Jd: You kind of just stay in the lake. Kris: Its beautiful to look like at, its serene, but it’s not the same, not the same. And bagels and pizza. Have to throw those in. Jd: Pizza is a big one. Kris: Yes, very big. Jd: And I feel like even when I go back now, it’s hard to find a good New York City Pizza because I don’t know where the good spots are anymore. Kris: I know, yeah that’s true. Yeah that’s true. Jd: So I wanted to transition into now your life at Saratoga and Skidmore, but more towards club life and the transitions in the seventeen years you’ve been here, Going towards your life, what’s your favorite part about it?[00:09:55.328] Kris: Favorite part about my job. Well. so, there's two favorite parts if I may. I've been doing bookkeeping, accounting, financial work since I've been 18 years old, and I love it! I absolutely love it. Umm, but I did work for an accounting firm, small accounting firm and I loved my work, but I am a people person, so it was very difficult for me. So, when this job became available I interviewed for it, and got the job. [00:10:40.870] I was able to do my love, the accounting that I love. I'm a little bit of a nerd. But then to be with the students and I have to say, working with students, and working with, you know, I consider you adults, but you know what I am saying, when I say adult, right two different things. The students here are amazing, they are motivating, they, and still seventeen years later I am still in awe of the students here. And, but they give me that you know, that motivation, seriously to do things in life. Like, everything that they can, like I can’t and I say this to everybody because I amazed at everything that you guys do. The clubs, and keeping up your grades, and working, and just like being these beautiful people. I was walking across campus the other day, again here we go again, the students, like three students, didn’t even know, it was early in the morning, I was heading over to a meeting and their just like, "good morning," and I am like, "really." These students are so nice too, and I am sure there are a few that are trouble makers, but for the most part the children are amazing. [00:12:05.870] And I am very fortunate, and every day I come to work and say "I �love what I do, I love my job." After 17 years, and it's because of you, it seriously is. Jd: It is so interesting, this conversation keeps coming up this week. I keep on talking to people about how amazing the students at Skidmore are and of course I am thinking about the pants that people wear because there are so amazing. Just looking at people's pants, especially in the fall or in the spring, I’m just like, because they are always so subtle, a lot of Skidmore students are always subtle but always doing a lot with their work [00:12:46.710]. So many interesting things too. It’s insane, like the art students, the students with computer science, like animation, like I just realized this week that that’s a whole sector of a course, that someone can specialize in animation. I’m just like, what, that’s awesome, that people are gaining these skills here, like that’s such an interdisciplinary space. Kris: You do, the students do so much, and they do everything so well. Even the fashion show, it’s like all the time you spend on that, that blows my mind because I work and I go home and I am like on the coach. [00:13:32.312] (Laughing) I'm done, but it’s so amazing. It keeps me young, it keeps me motivated. Like constantly striving, I can’t imagine if I worked in the CPA office, I couldn’t imagine where I'll be. I will probably be ten years older than I am. Just being here and the energy from the students. I feel so grateful on that end that I get to stay young and refreshed. I am very challenged in some areas like technology, but the students help me so when I go out in the real world, my world, I look pretty smart. (Laughing) Thanks you too. Jd: So my next question is, no actually, I am going to transition to somewhere else. What has been your favorite memory with a student at Skidmore? Kris: A student? Oh wow. That is so hard because I’ve met so many incredible students and bonded with so many incredible students. I think, I don’t know a specific memory here, because there is so many. But I think my, I think, when students graduate and we still have that connection, and I am still invited to weddings, and baby showers, [00:15:19.648] a specific memory, I have a student who calls me, I think almost every week and he graduated six years ago. And it’s you know, those things, those are just, those to me, mean so much. It will be very hard for to pick a specific memory for here. Jd: I think that answered it perfectly. Shifting over to clubs, umm, how have the clubs shifted over the years, if they have? Kris: I don’t know if there's been a big shift, what I see, it’s very typical, very consistent. The clubs that are really active, tend to remain active year after year after year. There may be a few clubs that have been active, that all of a �sudden, we have to have that conversation like "what’s going on," "how’s the membership, how’s the eboard working" because we can tell. We can tell the clubs that have been so active, and the ones that have been active all of a sudden are kind of. I think it’s very consistent about the clubs that are created each year or chartered each year and then the other clubs that have been chartered and kind of the eboned flow. You have that interest for one year or two years and then it declines and then the club gets sunsetted because there is no interest. All of a sudden, two years later, "Hey, there is this kind of a club, I am interested." [00:17:19.263] I think it is very consistent in that way. I know the clubs that are active, consistently are active. The ones that we kind of know, that have the eboned flow and we expect it. You know, we expect it. I personally, on my end, what I do, I don’t see any major shifts in clubs. It is interested to see the ideas on the clubs that are created and the interest, you each year and some clubs where the interest it’s like, "Woah we can’t do that," so I think it’s all consistent how it ah plays out. Jd: Do you have a favorite event you like to go to? Kris: Well every year I try to go to an event I have never been before so I go to the circus club or I go to an acapella event. One of my favorites, and not because you are sitting in front of me, this happened a long time ago, it’s the fashion show. I love, and maybe it's because I know all the work you put into it, but then again, I love fashion. So it’s something that I am passionate about. [00:19:06.847] But, the other events I love going to, I love going to the culture dinners, love whether it be Hillel, Hayat, I love those dinners. I love the performance, the food. It expands my world. I also love going to sporting, I love watching the men’s hockey team. Love it. And I've been to the alpine ski races, absolutely love that as well. Jd: And those are a little bit further? Kris: Yes, I'll go up to gore mountain which is about an hour away. I’ve been there a couple of times, absolutely love those too, but I do try to go to, I've been to Comfiest. And. I’ve been to the outing club, they have the film screening I've done that. So, I try to spread it out, things I haven’t been to, Fun day? I'll show up if I have to. [00:20:20.870] No, I love fun day but, Jd: It can be a little hectic sometimes. Kris: I pop in, I pop in, say hello early enough and then I am usually out of there. Jd: A little bit pf a personal question, I really want to know the answer to. How has student fashion shifted since you've been here? �Kris: Oh! How has student fashion shifted? You know and this is amazing, and I do, I watch student fashion. I love seeing what the students wear. [00:21:00.870] I can’t mimic it, but I may throw in something a little age appropriate for myself every now and then. What I see is like the different styles from when I Jd: They are coming back. Kris: They are coming back! and I love it. One year I saw leg warmers and I’m like, "Wait that’s the 80's" Umm, I’ve seen the wide, the bell bottom pants. I love, and I am like oh gosh, I should have saved all those clothes. [00:21:32.190] Jd: There are a few pieces I took from my mom, she was going to throw them out. I was like no these are going to come back. I am going to keep these. Kris: As I go through my closet, I am like why did I give it up. But you know, but here is something I am very impressed by. I have been on other college campuses, most people in their Pajamas. Not at Skidmore. (Laughing) you know and its, students just love to, whether they mean to or not, they look great, and of course I miss my little hall way downstairs, like a little fashion, cause that’s you know, I love to dress uniquely. i know quite a few students who do. As a matter of fact, I ran into a student the other day and she was wearing these animal print booties and I am like oh my god. I have those booties, I am so cool. I think its Diane. I have the same booties as her, I wouldn’t wear them here, but that was so cool to me. Jd: Seeing the fashion here, is just, is incredible to see what people wear and how they put it together. And everyone has such a different style. Kris: Exactly, sometimes the same. There’s this joke, everyone at Skidmore dresses the same which is so true because me and tory have come in with the same outfit and we will take a picture. And it’s like, and again, and here is how the students inspire me. Because I am like, I love your headband. I’m like, "That might look good on me: so I go out and I’m like, let me try it. Here is my work, this is what I do day in and day out. It is just so amazing that I can take so much more away from this beautiful campus that we are on. And that’s why every day I am so grateful for my job, for what I do here, cause I love what I do, I love working with the students, I love bonding with the students, I love what I learn from students. And it’s like, sometimes, alright I am too happy. [00:24:29.375] Jd: I think that was a perfect ending to our interview. Usually for interviewing I have to let you speak, and we are so interactive, I have to stop my thoughts all the time and I want to say mmhmm. And I think I did a few in here. �Kris: But that’s okay because when we are interacting that brings out different, you know, thoughts in my head. I am like oh yeah, that’s what interviewing and talking is about Jd: Is there anything you like to mentioned that you feel like we haven’t covered or any last final thoughts? Kris: about what in particular? Jd: About anything Skidmore/Saratoga Community Kris: You know, again, I just feel very grateful. In my little world, I feel very grateful. Obviously, we are not without struggles, but I also see those struggles being addressed. And I am grateful for that as well because I’ve also seen in the past where they weren’t. I am glad to see that we are getting to a place where we are more conscious and moving ahead. That is great to see on this campus. The college itself, the students remain to be amazing. The one thing I have noticed about students though from when I first started there wasn’t a passion for a stance and now I feel like students, all group of students when they have a passion they are going for it. And that to me, and seriously, for years and years and years, we've talked about. "Why isn’t there passion" on campus like why isn’t everyone like, you know. Then all of sudden there, boom, and it’s become this snowball effect and that’s great. That’s part of the college experience, tis not only academic. Its finding your spirit, its finding your voice. [00:26:50.870] Its really important as well and I am so glad that a lot of students have found their voice and are pushing us forward. Jd: I think a lot of that also has to do with the growth of social media, where we are constantly connecting with people who might not have the same views as us. Makes us even more passionate about what we believe in. "Wait, but I believe this and I want to speak about this" and I think it triggers conversations in ways where before may have been closed into a space that not everyone had access to. Kris: That is true. That is very true, and it’s also learning, I think it’s a hard thing to do, but learning to appreciate someone else’s opinion and learning to respect someone else's opinion and respecting their opinion. [00:27:40.870] I think that’s such a hard thing, because you are like "No, you're wrong." Jd: And as soon as you hear something that you don’t agree with you want to respond, but the trick is to listen. I need to understand someone else’s point to be able to articulate mine. �Kris: And respect, that’s your perspective, that’s your view, that’s great, In my mind your wrong (laughing) [00:27:59.925] But I am not going to say that. So yeah, that’s the shift I see in students, just that compassion and passion and speaking up and moving forward. It is great to see. Jd: Thank you for allowing me to interview you and have this conversation. I really enjoyed it. Kris: Me too. Me too! 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Travel and Tourism URL Internet Archive, Library of Congress (original repository), <a href="https://archive.org/details/saratogahowtosee02dear/">https://archive.org/details/saratogahowtosee02dear/</a> Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. J. Dym Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 6/5/2021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga, and how to see it: containing a full account of its celebrated springs, mammoth hotels, health institutions, beautiful drives and walks, various objects of interest and amusement &c &c &c with numerous illustrations... Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dearborn, R.F. https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/bb42fa9ea2d0dc002d01c6fed8292118.jpeg 36891ccecbb1b53a58e84c3a927f66eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jordana Dym Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 2/8/2015 Date Depicted (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the content date field that will display. ca 1950 Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. This includes information about items or events that are larger than just the map itself; for example, information about cartographers, a description of the map's historical significance (for example, "This is the first printed map of Saratoga Springs"), notes on the laws leading to a map's creation, descriptions of changes in state or county lines, information about the organization that created the map, how often maps were updated, and information about the map's creation and publication. Many State Archives maps have historical information in the catalog record -- that should be captured in this field. A copy of the 1888 Burleigh map of Saratoga Springs hangs over the card catalog at the Saratoga Springs Public Library above a patron. The photo is in an album, "Saratoga Springs Photo Club, 1955" in the Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Subject - Organization Names of individuals associated with the item. Please put "Tje" at the end: University of Chicago Press, The Saratoga Springs Photo Club Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Civic Life Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Burleigh Map over Card Catalog, L. Deijnoska Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dejnozka, Ladislaw (Round Lake, N.Y.) https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/730185ca71ceaa47d45c9e65e0a23b09.jpg cdc3c38dddb3c800eb635577e421a702 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/20222186c6bd9b738489db9568bc7ddf.wav 65a9f8a6e9d2d18b3866fe4c93c84263 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Evolution of Beekman Street (20th century-2016) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/13/16 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Saratoga Memory Project Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Skidmore College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available DS: 113A Storytelling Interviewing, Skidmore College Description An account of the resource History of Beekman street, evolution of Beeekman, artist identities/roles, the future. Language A language of the resource English Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wave file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Zotero Interviewee Amejo Amyot, M'elle Pirii-Lee, Cecilia Frittelli, Interviewer Jonah Brenner, Amanda Peckler, Yuelin He, Max Lowe, Dejon Bunn-Constant Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Dejon Bunn-Constant Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed David Plaskett Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 06/12/2016 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Digital Audio Recording Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Dejon Bunn-Constant Location The location of the interview 69 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Interviewee: David Plaskett Interviewer: Dejon Bunn-Constant Location of Interview: Kitchen of Black Elks Lodge, 69 Beekman Street Date of Interview: 12/10/16 00:00:01.13: Header 00:00:12.02: Introduction. Resident of Saratoga Springs and Black Elks Lodge since 1998 00:00:59.37: Discussion on decline of participation of Black Elks Lodge and fraternities in general. Misconception on lodge and change from the festive, young, organized, active participation it used to have. Focus on functions of lodge - bar, parties. Loss of knowledge of history. 00:04:35.11: Recounts history of the Drill team as an integral part of what Elks used to be. Used to be source of pride and representation of Saratoga in competitions with other cities. Meetings and social gatherings used to be face of Black Elks. Community, support driven. 00:08:32.23: Clarifies racist history of Elks lodge - exclusion lead to need for Black fraternity members to create own space. Emphasis on sameness between Elks of all races despite division in history. 00:10:09.44: Mentions that Elks started in England. 00:13:13.07: Explains that original purpose of fraternal organizations was loving, giving. That purpose has been clouded. 00:14:12.58: Stresses importance of young membership, transparency of history key to people knowing the reason why they are joining, 00:15:19.23: Tells history of Frederick Allen in Saratoga Springs, organization of City Hall. 00:16:56.34: Remarks Black Elks Lodge being the first and last Black lodge in New York. Declares desire to keep Lodge alive due to racial significance in Saratoga. 00:19:14.17: Discusses exclusion and lack of appreciation of the lodge by the larger Saratoga community. Lack of funding and desire by townspeople to keep lodge alive. 00:21:47.05: Notes how lodge historically had auxiliary attractions to gain membership that no longer exists. 00:24:05.39: States belief that lodge should have membership drive as rejuvenation effort. 00:25:42.40: “Can We Talk” by Tevin Campbell starts playing in the distant background, remarked by Mr. Plaskett as he discusses meetings historically being members only. 00:26:43.18: Describes color guard - women in parades held by fraternities in past who would wave the fraternity’s flag and do a routine to introduce the fraternity being represented. 00:28:48.31: Not many original Elks members left to remember and recount history and legacy to newer generations. 00:31:03.04: Downplay of lodge’s legacy and importance by the rest of Beekman Street and the rest of Saratoga. Makes clear that the town actually wants to see the Arts District and the Lodge gone. 00:32:45.51: Arts District began being rented by people of too wealthy a class for artists to survive and maintain the businesses and homes they had along Beekman Street. Severity of the collapse, refinancing occurring around 2010. 00:37:14.01: Closing. Remarks importance of interviewer’s interest in the history of the Lodge and maintaining the narrative of the Lodge as a method to draw attention to it. Emphasis on knowledge of history as most powerful tool to use. Unsure if he believes Lodge should attempt to rejuvenate itself or let go of history, disappointed tone. 00:40:46.40: End. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 40:46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with David Plaskett Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dejon Bunn-Constant Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file. 16 bit 44.1 khz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/10/2016 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available DS113A: Storytelling Interviewing, Skidmore College. Description An account of the resource The overarching theme of the interview I conducted displays Mr. Plaskett's doubtful yet hopeful view for the future of the Lodge. He has been living in Saratoga and participating in the Lodge since 1998 - he has been an Elks member since his youth. As a senior citizen, he remarks the shift he has observed in the priorities and reasons why people join (or do not join) the lodge. Lastly, he focuses on the importance of knowing and maintaining the history of the Elk's lodge, as there has been blatant prejudiced disregard for the continuation of the lodge by the larger Saratoga community. He hopes that by keeping history alive and continuing the narrative, the essence of what Elkdom means to the Black Elks will be kept alive as well. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 12/13/16 Subject The topic of the resource Saratoga Springs -- Beekman Street Arts District -- History oral history https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/bfbe682037fe4acede9f05604082c6ce.tif 3a84386cf994c059ddcaa05f7a18de44 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/6b5b3d64aa689bf9d1594e95365233c9.tif ea3ee9bda1c742daa766df93e87830fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Allie Smith Publisher Publisher of the item, or of the book or atlas in which it appears. Dean Color Place of Publication The city (and if necessary) state or country of publication. Glens Falls, N.Y. 12801 Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Travel and Tourism Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Private Collection Date Depicted (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the content date field that will display. After 1967 Date Published (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the date field that will display. After 1967 Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 2/27/2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rip Van Dam Motel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dean Color Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dexter Press, Inc. 20th century automobile downtown lodging motel Saratoga Springs tourism travel urban history https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/20f2dd9eee4f3823e659e468f936d427.jpg 57b8942911cee630846d6dce7f9db7f3 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/96f45051febdbab684e8c4adc6a0e516.jpg af990dc6e3aa54d0d70936f176b4505e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In court case, it's sunlight vs. parking Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dimopoulos, Thomas Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hill County Observer Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource Parking garage proposal halted; The Mouzon House which as solar collectors on its room would find itself in the shadows of the 5-story parking garage. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/e52b3e54e32a36801de1011c8d28b863.jpg eebf340aa3ead7130462c09829fa6a9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parking to stay free in Spa City Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/2/10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dimopoulos, Thomas Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Post Star Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource A week after an advisory committee administered the last rites to the city's paid parking plan, the proposal was declared dead by the city council. 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Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Work starts on Spring Run Trail Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4/5/10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Donges, Patrick H. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Saratogian Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource A multi-use path to connect Northway and Congress Park Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/088aebb53359da1497993aad06fff1b8.jpg 2dcb0c0aac85108dbd1aacb3d863908d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Jillian Seigel Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 43270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bus route from NYC to Spa City cancelled Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/12/10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Donohue, Emily Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Saratogian Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Saratoga Springs Subject The topic of the resource Transportation Description An account of the resource The bus route planned to travel between Saratoga Springs and New York City has been cancelled, according to an announcement on the company's website. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource text EnvironmentalJustice SaratogaSprings transportation https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/9384a304a3b0b4bd4875cb3ba2dda084.jpeg 25e83c7418565b2ce92c0c2d358814f5 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/3fccbdf9188f0e7b1de181a0f5c49b79.pdf 461e17490e187efad5b1e3e4048c1248 PDF Text Text ������ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Map Cartographic document Creator - Individual Name of the person or people responsible for creating the item. Dowd, Charles F, A.M. Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Special Collections and Archives, Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) The Saratoga Springs History Museum (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Scope Tiered geographical location (for example: United States, New York State, Saratoga County, Saratoga Springs, Congress Park). This field is here for two reasons: first, to present, at its narrowest level, the scope of the entire item (in other words, not every place name has to be listed here). Second, this field will allow for accurate and helpful narrowing and broadening of geographic searches. Other Type For Maps: This subject field describes the purpose of the map. This is a controlled-vocabulary field using terms developed for this project. It is important to note that Map Theme and Map Type are not hierarchical, thus it is possible to have the two fields overlap or even duplicate each other. In determining the purpose of the map, the cataloger should consider the publisher, and, (if known) original use of the map. For example, a map that shows a wide variety of information might be a candidate for General in the map_type field, however, if it was prepared by the state geologist and contains, in addition to everything else, substantial information about the geology and topography of the state, it would be classified as a Geological map. Multiple terms can be used in this field. Color maps Railroad map Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Travel and Tourism Transportation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map of the United States from "System of Time Standards"Illustrated by Map" Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1884 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Charles F. Dows, System of Time Standards Illustrated by Map (Saratoga Springs, SI, 1884) Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dowd, Charles F. map https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/17d89c100ed03cd05be96147036d2ba2.tif f77a9ed2d93dff2e938e2e05b4a0e9db https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/44808193584667b620c5497cf958802c.tif 688d28c57007dcfad48bd8ccbbc1db48 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga Springs History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1706- Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Engraving Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Allie Smith Date Depicted (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the content date field that will display. 1834 Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Travel and Tourism Recreation Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Private Collection Abstract (& Historical Note) Natural language description of the map itself, providing a general summary of the map and noting significant features. This is the place to introduce keywords and proper names that might be of interest to researchers, but do not warrant a separate subject heading of their own. Inset maps should also be described here, with their full titles given. Whenever historical or explanatory information is available, it should be included here as well. This includes information about items or events that are larger than just the map itself; for example, information about cartographers, a description of the map's historical significance (for example, "This is the first printed map of Saratoga Springs"), notes on the laws leading to a map's creation, descriptions of changes in state or county lines, information about the organization that created the map, how often maps were updated, and information about the map's creation and publication. Many State Archives maps have historical information in the catalog record -- that should be captured in this field. The 1830's were the first time the railroad came into Saratoga. This image depicts leisurely people in Victorian era dress on the Piazza of Congress Hall in Saratoga. Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 2/27/2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Piazza of Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Drawn by C. Burton Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Enraved by T. Illman 19th century hotel illustration Leisure mineral springs print Saratoga Springs tourism https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/715dfe378e724755269c14479a0ed997.jpg c0cfe1a3511d9eb1ea6a72868979dad4 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/2a64abe0904f1b23ab55f655b1a1d5f9.mp3 3181ae5dc23a0fb0a868739603a20c1b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Flurry Festival Description An account of the resource The Flurry Festival is a three day music and dance Festival that takes place in Saratoga Springs in February. The festival holds workshops, performances, dances, and jam sessions in the city center and throughout the town. The Flurry first started as a dance festival for contra dancing but has expanded to musicians and spans all genres of music and dance as well as encompassing family friendly events such as storytelling. Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource The Flurry Festival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jennifer Davies, Clara-Sophia Daly, Dustin Foote, Amanda Muir, Tess Olcott, Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Dustin Foote Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Douglas C. Haller Location The location of the interview Residence of Interviewee Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Digital Audio Recording Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 41:14 Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Dustin Foote Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 06/12/2016 Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview Interviewer: Dustin Foote Interviewee: Doug Haller Log Notes 00:00-00:29 Header 00:30-02:30 Doug talks about background in Schenectady 03:00-04:17 After Doug divorces his first wife, he discovers his passion of contra dancing 04:20-08:24 Description and history of contra dancing 08:32-10:10 Describes his first experience at the flurry 10:25-10:56 “contradancing was a great opportunity to meet new people and make new friends” 11:15-12:45 Pervasiveness of contradancing across the country 12:53-14:09 Doug meets his second wife contradancing 14:10-17:36 Diverse styles of dancing at the flurry; Paul Rosenburg mentioned 17:47-20:40 Doug speaks of the different roles he has had on the flurry administration 20:40-21:59 Current administrative roles in the flurry 22:00-24:17 What kind of people attend the flurry? 24:36-26:54 What keeps Doug coming back to the flurry? “I think the flurry helps the world become a better place, just for a little bit of time.” 27:19-31:43 Doug gives a personal anecdote on why the flurry is so significant. “It would be nice if the world were more like the flurry the rest of the year.” 31:44-32:31 What would you tell your 1992 self about this festival 32:37-38:55 Doug talks about being the administrative director of the flurry during a power outage, mentions the community response. “these people are not going to let you fail, and they didn’t” 36:20-37:07 How the flurry ended up in Saratoga 39:05-40:00 What do you want the future of the flurry to look like? 40:23-41:09 Doug’s final thoughts on involvement in the flurry festival Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Doug Haller Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/3/2016 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. The Flurry Festival Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available DS113A: Storytelling Interviewing, Skidmore College. Description An account of the resource Interview with Doug Haller, ex-Administrative Director of the Flurry Festival. Topics include the development of the festival and Doug's experiences organizing the Flurry. Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dustin Foote Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 12/3/16 Subject The topic of the resource Saratoga Springs -- Flurry Festival -- History dance Doug Haller Flurry music oral history Saratoga Springs The Flurry Festival https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/875627fc8b467feb7cad5c32a3088c00.png 553fbc6f992dfa4ef7d7e8e5148c65f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Northern Traveller, Title Page and engraving of Niagara Falls Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/03de129236d6df74a2addcf59f0bb98a.png 5bd2e167f9d27462939fe87477234995 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [Map of route from Albany to Saratoga Springs] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/ea26783348fbcedbe6fe82dc85413a05.png 56758bc075b36bb9e436fe6b23163516 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saratoga (engraving), pp. 106-107 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/c55a573d22a3e6ee37ed7ae2ce4c1f96.png 953e812094b39ad4a07e208372ca410d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map of the Routes in New York, New England and Pennsylavania, drawn for the Northern Traveller, D.S. Throop sc[ulpit] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1826 https://www.ssmp.mdocs.skidmore.edu/files/original/88f3b0475dbd0f95f7db4ff06224e83f.jpg 48f09a08ad5a5975eff455339cb43541 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Detail, route map with railroad Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1834 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping Saratoga Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1700- Map Cartographic document Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Guidebook Record Contributor Individual who prepared the item and/or edited it. Allie Smith Jordana Dym Date Published (Display) Text version of the date field -- can handle non-numeric characters (ca. 1850s, [1844]). This is the date field that will display. 1825, 1826, 1834 Publisher Publisher of the item, or of the book or atlas in which it appears. Wilder & Campbell Place of Publication The city (and if necessary) state or country of publication. New York, N.Y. Theme For browsing purposes, we are borrowing and adapting themes from the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Recreation Travel and Tourism Repository Name of the repository that holds the original item. Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library Library of Congress Record Creation Date Day/Month/Year of record creation/edit 10/10/2014 3/13/2015 Scope Tiered geographical location (for example: United States, New York State, Saratoga County, Saratoga Springs, Congress Park). This field is here for two reasons: first, to present, at its narrowest level, the scope of the entire item (in other words, not every place name has to be listed here). Second, this field will allow for accurate and helpful narrowing and broadening of geographic searches. Other Type For Maps: This subject field describes the purpose of the map. This is a controlled-vocabulary field using terms developed for this project. It is important to note that Map Theme and Map Type are not hierarchical, thus it is possible to have the two fields overlap or even duplicate each other. In determining the purpose of the map, the cataloger should consider the publisher, and, (if known) original use of the map. For example, a map that shows a wide variety of information might be a candidate for General in the map_type field, however, if it was prepared by the state geologist and contains, in addition to everything else, substantial information about the geology and topography of the state, it would be classified as a Geological map. Multiple terms can be used in this field. Physical maps URL <a title="The Northern Traveller (1825)" href="https://archive.org/details/northerntravelle00dwi">1825</a> edition<br /><a title="The Northern Traveller" href="https://archive.org/details/northerntravelle03dwig">1826</a> edition<br /><a title="The Northern Traveller (1828)" href="https://archive.org/details/northerntravelle01dwig">1828</a> edition<br /><a title="The Northern Traveller (1841)" href="https://archive.org/details/niagaraquebecspr41dwigrich">1841</a> edition Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Northern Traveller; Containing the routes to Niagara, Quebec, and The Springs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825; 1826; 1834 Description An account of the resource A guidebook to the U.S. Northeast that went through multiple editions between 1825 and 1850. Strip maps and area maps in each edition reflect the existing travel infrastructure. Comparing the 1825 and 1834 editions shows the arrival of the railroad in Saratoga Springs in the early 1830s. Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dwight, Thomas area map guidebook map strip map tourism travel