Life in the Mohawk Valley today is vastly different from generations
ago. Long gone are the factory whistles calling workers to their shifts
in old mill towns. Fort Plain still benefits from little-known inventor
William Yerdon, and Utica baseball player George Burns was so skilled
that fans called left field Burnsville. Few realize that a local artist
shared a special bond with John Philip Sousa, one of the nation's
greatest musicians. The Tamarack Playhouse was once the venue of
spectacular theatricals, and as time goes on, there are fewer alumni to
remember Amsterdam's Bishop Scully High School. Local author Bob Cudmore
shows that while lost, these and other compelling stories no longer need
be forgotten.