Stories from the Mohawk Valley: The Painted Rocks, the Good Benedict Arnold & More (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609490584)

Bob Cudmore is a native of Amsterdam, New York, who has written a regular column on Mohawk Valley history for the Daily Gazette newspaper for over a decade. He and Steve Dunn co-produced a ninety-minute WMHT-TV documentary about Amsterdam history--Carpet City--in 2000. That same year, Cudmore published the book You Can't Go Wrong: Stories from Nero, N.Y. and Other Tales, a satirical look at Upstate life. A radio and television talk show host, Cudmore most recently hosted the morning show on Lite 104.7/1570 AM WVTL radio in Amsterdam. From 1980 to 1993, he hosted the nightly Contact talk show on WGY radio in Albany. An adjunct instructor in media at Albany's College of St. Rose, Cudmore worked in public relations for the State University of New York System Administration from 1993 to 2001. He has a master's and a bachelor's in English from Boston University. He lives in Glenville and has two children--Bob Cudmore Jr. of Baltimore, Maryland, and Kathleen R. Bokan of West Charlton, New York.