Second Look Podcast

The Dry Hill Base Officer’s Wives Club meets in September 1957. The Dry Hill Air Defense Command Radar Station on Swan Road in Watertown closed in the 1990s, but I’m loving these vintage looks.

Hersal Z. Charlton, retired Air Force Sergeant and father of five children, this morning demonstrated in front of Arsenal Street School to protest what he charges is a "prejudiced decision" on the part of officials of the General Brown School District to refuse education for two of his sons, who are re****ed.

The final spike is driven into the 3.5-mile long railroad connecting Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) to Calcium in Northern New York on March 14,1941.
At this time in the state, just about every major and most minor cities, including military posts, were served by one or more railroads.