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What’s in Your Closet?

I’ve always experienced a sense of place. I am not alone with this phenomenon. For the decades that I operated a business in downtown Albany I was immersed in the history, art and architecture of my surroundings. Given what I do for a living, it was easy to surround myself with the tangible evidence of the above. I know I am not singularly obsessed, because I have scores of researchers and collectors who have sought out what I have compiled…thousands of 18th, 19th and 20th c. remnants which illuminate the local past. I have owned many singularly important items during those years…an 18th c. Quackenbos receipt for selling rum to the Indians; a watercolor illustrated journal of Albany Mayor and brewer John Taylor; an archive of photographs of the phases of construction of the South Mall; an 1840’s letter from an Albany mayor promoting the use of masonry in building construction because of a rash of fires destroying wood framed structures; a 1930 letter from Charles Lindbergh to Cuyler Reynolds thanking Albany for the “key” to the city (three years after the fact!); the business records of Annesley & Co., etc.

Now that I have moved my storefront to Cohoes, I am equally enthralled with place. I have begun to learn about the area’s vital history and am actively acquiring bits of the past to help light my path. The catalyst for writing this ramble was my recent purchase of a spectacular 15” high coin silver ewer presented to William Chadwick from his New York City business partner, Peter Remsen.

In 1843 Chadwick moved to Cohoes to try his hand in the textile business. For a number of years he served as president of the Harmony Cotton Mills. In 1862 he purchased an ongoing knitting mill at the corner of Ontario and Remsen Streets which became Chadwick & Co., and then, in 1885, was reorganized and named Ontario Knitting Co. This bit of history was taking place a stones easy toss from my doorway.

I also have in stock an 1844 printed “proposal of the Cohoes Company for selling their water power, or mill privileges on the Canals at Cohoes Falls”; a 24” x 20” late 19thc. photograph of Star Knitting Co. by the Troy photographer Lloyd; a scarce 1931 lithograph by noted artist Louis Lozowick titled: “City on the Rock, Cohoes”, and many other items in my expanding inventory of local items.

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Kevin Feedback Is a gift.

Especially honest feedback. There are so few times in your life that you receive honest feedback.

Everyone is always trying to be “correct” and not wanting to hurt anyones feelings. Of course there is a right way to give feedback, whether that sharing of information is positive or negative. We know we all can do better and be better. A family member, friend or colleague that is truthful, empathetic and compassionate with sharing honest feedback is truly a blessing..... sometimes I dare say a blessing in disguise.

One of my honest feedback aha! moments happened a long time ago when I was working in a professional capacity at GE Plastics. I was sent to a week long training called Interpersonal Skills and Relationships. Some of my co-workers called it “charm school”. Well, on the day of arrival, we were all segmented into smaller groups of about 15 participants each. We all had to give a short 5-10 minute presentation to the rest of our group about ourselves. Our instructor only had one rule. Because we really didn’t know each other we had to give honest feedback. At the end of our presentation we remained in front of the group and captured with a flip chart, our own individual honest feedback. Well I wrote my feedback, I was receiving sentences that contained words like, tough, unapproachable, headstrong, rough and several others that quickly made me see that I was perceived, through my honest feedback, as not the easiest person to get along with. Yes, I know as you gaze at my smiling photo above, that it’s hard for you to believe what I’m telling you.

Over the next week we learned a lot about interpersonal communication and giving and receiving feedback the correct way. I actually enjoyed the training.

Roll the film of my life ahead seven years.... and I’m now at another GE training session for plant and project management and wouldn’t you know it, they kicked off our small group interaction with another honest feedback session. Oh boy here I go again.......

I do my presentation and get ready for the barrage of honest feedback form the cannons. I start to write down words and phrases like, nice guy, approachable, listens well, salt of the earth. I’m thinking “did someone else just do their presentation and not me?” I couldn’t complete writing my feedback down because I started laughing and everyone was wondering what’s up with this. I told them

the seven years before feedback story. I have to admit “charm school” changed me.

Why all this stuff about feedback? Well although it’s hasn’t been a, “walk in the park” as they say, with getting the Our Towne Colonie back on it’s feet again, I have had several readers take the time to call me and say they enjoy the publication content and information it provides. Some have even called to say it “brightened their day!” Receiving this feedback had also “brightened my day.” I’m willing to take any feedback you would like to share with me.

I work to bring you dear readers, those business owners that are doing their best every day to make the community we live in a better place and that aim to deliver exceptional customer service. Perhaps when visiting them you can share some honest feedback with them. Did you receive some great service, extra care or someone willing to help solve your problem. Are they volunteering in some capacity to elevate our youth or others in our community less fortunate.

If so, share some feedback with them and you just might brighten their day too.

Hang in there... I heard spring is coming!

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Yes spring will come, and with it brings a new season for your pets!

I know it’s hard to believe that spring will come but it is around the corner and there are many things to consider for your pets.

Regular grooming for your for pet is just as much medicinal as cosmetic. Grooming is not only a haircut, it’s maintaining and insuring it is tangle free and dead hair is removed in order for the skin to stay healthy.

Often times in the spring as a groomer we see people who have waited through the winter to get their dogs groomed believing the long coat keeps them warm.

This is true if the coat has been maintained and there are not tangles or mats however if the opposite is true and the coat is matted from all the winter conditions then the air can not circulate around the coat to allow the skin to breathe to keep them warm.

Often times when we remove mats we see either hotspots blemishes or sores where either moisture or debris has been trapped beneath the mats.

As a result we have no choice but to shave the pets coat off which could irritate and be uncomfortable to your pet. Also to mention it is not a desired look for the cosmetic or artistic part of what a groomer does.

Regular grooming’s monthly to bimonthly will ensure the pets coat stays healthy and stay styled so that they’re always looking their best and feeling the greatest!

Other benefits and needs of regular grooming’s for your pet are clipping in filing the nails cleaning the ears and brushing the teeth.

A professional groomer going throughout the coat and laying hands on the body of your dog monthly to bimonthly many times can find things to bring to your vets attention before they manifest into something serious. At our pet salon we never suspect or diagnose or try to replace the opinion of the veterinarian wthat hadn’t been there the month or two prior bringing this to you and your vet’s can sometimes prevent more serious things that could be causing this onset.

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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless.

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Art Garfunkel We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Francis J. Braceland Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, “This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.” ~Louis L’Amour

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Balance Your Chakras: Balance Your Life

Feeling out of balance?

Throughout your life, you become a collection of things you have experienced: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. These experiences are stored within you and they create congestion, resulting in “dis-ease.” There are major energy centers in the body (chakras), which are accumulation points for stuck energy. By clearing the chakras you affect healing often faster and easier than traditional approaches, which have a long list of side effects and often don’t address the underlying problem.

Working with the chakras is a great way to restore balance. The word chakra means spinning wheel.

Chakras are spinning wheels of energy inside and outside the body that can impact all areas of life: health (physical, emotional, and mental), finances, career, spiritual and personal growth, and relationships. So working with the chakras can have a profound impact on all areas of life.

In March and April, Key 2ww Joy is offering a unique workshop series designed to address the whole person by balancing and clearing the chakras through an innovative combination of healing modalities that produce dramatic results! This allows participants to go to even deeper levels of healing and discover yet untapped potential hidden below the apparent blockages or wounds of the chakras. Elena A., from Niskayuna, NY had this to say about this multiple modality approach, “It helped me face things I didn’t want to face. It gently helped melt away obstacles that I was unconsciously creating for myself.”

This workshop is open to all levels of experience and you may take the entire series or selected sessions.

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Suspense/Mystery Book Discussion Group Begins If you enjoy Mystery and Suspense novels come and be a part of a new book discussion group! This group will meet on the second Monday of each month at 1:30 PM at the library. First up: Monday, March 9th Still Missing

by Chevy Stevens. Copies are now available for pick up at the library. Still Missing was the winner of the 2011 International Thriller Award for Best First Novel as well as Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2010. Says Author Lisa Gardner: “Still Missing represents psychological suspense at its very best. Realtor Annie O’Sullivan is abducted from an open house and held captive for a year in a remote cabin….Stevens skillfully juxtaposes the back story of Annie’s captivity with the front story of a woman desperately trying to reclaim her old life….

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Upcoming books: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica and Missing You by Harlan Coben. Come join this new group to meet new friends and discuss all the twists and turns in these novels!

Noon Author Talk: Hudson River Valley History Vernon Benjamin, former editor of the New Saugerties Times will talk about his new book The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War on Thursday, March 12th. During the 200 years after Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage, the Hudson River Valley would become “the landscape that defined America” and “the site of a truly historic flowering of art, literature, architecture, innovation, and revolutionary fervor…. the Hudson River Valley…soon became home to the most vibrant trading outpost for the New World colonies – the Island of Manhattan – even as the rest of the valley retained the native beauty that would inspire artists from James Fenimore Cooper to Thomas Cole.

The Hudson Valley also became the major theater for the battle between empires in the French and Indian War. When the colonists united in rebellion against the British several decades later, conflict came to the region once again, with decisive military engagements from Saratoga to West Point to the occupied New York Harbor. In the aftermath, New York emerged as the capital of a new nation, and wealth from the city flowed north to the burgeoning Valley, leading to a renaissance of culture and commerce that is still evident today.” The talk begins at 12:15 PM; bring your lunch if you are on lunch hour.

American Cinema and WWII with Lenny Zapala Continues Thursday, March 12th at 6:30 PM: A showing of the 1942 film Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Need we say more? A newsreel and a short from that era will also be shown.

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movie is The Flowers of War on Monday, March 16th at 6:00 PM. The film was nominated for several international awards and is about a Westerner who finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan’s rape of Nanking in 1937. He poses as a priest and attempts to lead the women to safety. Upcoming: Monday, April 20th: Farewell My Concubine; Monday, May11th: The Blue Kite; and Monday, June 15th: Yi Yi: A One and a Two. All start at 6:00 PM. Noon Author Talk: I Love Those Earrings Chris Filstrup, coauthor of the new book I Love Those Earrings: A Popular History from Ancient to Modern, will be here for a Noon Author Talk and presentation on Friday, March 27th. From the publisher: “Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of earrings reaching from ancient Assyrians to Renaissance chandeliers to Victorian ladies wearing birds-in-nests to present day artisans’ use of rare metals, plastics, and even computer chips. Using anecdotes and images, the authors tell a story that will engage those interested in jewelry, fashion history, and design, and the women and men who have fancied and obsessed over earrings in the past and present.” Chris’s talk/presentation begins at 12:15 PM; bring your lunch if you are on lunch hour. Chris has also asked those coming to bring their favorite earrings and stories about their earrings!

Local Author Talk: Ram Chugh’s Against All Odds Loudonville resident Ram Chugh will talk about his memoir Against All Odds: How An Indian Airman’s Extraordinary Resolve Altered the Course of His Life on Tuesday night, March 31st at 7:00 PM. From the publisher: “Though his high school science teacher thought sixteen-year-old Ram Chugh, one of his most gifted students, Ram’s concerned but struggling father had other ideas and Ram soon found himself, in 1951, as an armorer in the highly rank-conscious Indian Air Force. Ram soon learned two things: The first was that he was considered the lowest of the low among the enlisted men with little hope for advancement and unbeknownst to him and owning partly to the fact that he knew limited English, the enlistment forms he had signed indicated that he had agreed to serve in the air force for thirty-eight years! ‘If there were a way out of my situation, I couldn’t think of one. It was a done deal. Like a bird in a not-so-gilded cage, I was trapped.’ Against All Odds is the true, inspiring story of a young man’s daunting quest to improve his lot in life and realize his vast, untapped potential despite enormous cultural biases, unbending military protocol, and exceedingly adverse circumstances.” A native of India, Ram Chugh served in the Indian Air Force before joining Panjab University as a research scholar to pursue a doctorate in economics. He later taught economics at Kurukshetra University before moving to the United States in 1966 to earn his Ph.D. As a professor of economics at SUNY Potsdam, he earned the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and later received SUNY’s highest honor by being named a Distinguished Service Professor.”

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This Month in History - MArch 1 Yellowstone becomes the U.S.’s first national park. (1872) 15 “The Ides of March” Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by 2 Texas declared its independence from Mexico (1836).

Marcus Junius Brutus. (44 B.C.) 2 Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 100 16 Professor Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fuel points in a basketball game. (1962) rocket. (1926) 3 The Star Spangled Banner becomes the National Anthem 16 The Mai Lai Massacre takes place in Vietnam. (1968) (1931) 17 On this day everyone is a little bit Irish- It’s Saint Patrick’s 4 The Constitution of the United States of America goes into Day! effect. (1789) 17 The rubber band was invented. Can you imagine life 4 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo N.Y. is recognized as the without them!?! (1845) first woman to bowl a perfect 300 game. (1930) 18 Soviet Union cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first 5 The Boston Massacre occurred. (1770) person to take a space walk. (1965) 6 Silly putty is invented. (1950) 19 Congress approves Daylight Savings Time. (1918) 6 Well known and loved Walter Cronkite signs off as 20 Harriet Beacher Stowe publishes the book Uncle Tom’s anchorman off the CBS Evening News (1981) Cabin . (1852) 7 Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone. (1876) 21 The infamous Alcatraz prison is closed. (1963) 7 Monopoly board game is invented (1933) 23 Patrick Henry declares “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

8 President Ronald Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire” (1775) (1983) 24 German scientist Robert Koch announces he has 8 Baseball great Joe DiMaggio dies (1999) discovered the bacillus that causes Tuberculosis. (1882) 9 Ironclad ships the Monitor and the Merrimack battle in the 24 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army. (1958) Civil war.

25 The European Economic Community (ECC) is established 10 The U.S. government issues paper money for the first time. by the Treaty of Rome. (1957) (1862) 26 Ludwig von Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria. (1827) 10 Alexander Graham Bell places the world’s first telephone 26 Dr. Jonas Salk invents a vaccine to fight polio. call, to his assistant in the next room. (1876) 26 The Eastman Dry Plate and Chemical Company 11 The most famous storm in American history begins.... the manufactures the first motion picture film. (1885) Blizzard of 1888.(1888) 27 The biggest earthquake ever recorded strikes Anchorage, 12 Girl Scouts were founded. (1912) Alaska. It measured 8.3 on the Richter scale. (1964) 12 Baseball great Joe Dimaggio agrees to a new contract with 28 Nathaniel Briggs patents the washing machine. (1797) the NY Yankees, and gets a $6,250 raise. My, how times have 28 The city of Madrid falls to the forces of Francisco Franco, changed! (1942) ending the Spanish Civil War. (1939) 13 Senate begins impeachment trial of President Andrew 28 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurs in Johnson. (1868) Middletown, Pa. (1979) 13 Greenwood patented earmuffs, originally called the 29 Ice jams stop the flow of water over Niagara Falls. (1848) “Champion Ear Protector”. (1877) See Ear Muff Day 29 Coca Cola is invented. (1886) 13 Harvard University is named after clergyman John 30 The 15th amendment goes into effect, giving black men the Harvard. (1639) right to vote. (1870) 14 Eli Whitney patents the Cotten Gin (1794) 30 Jeopardy debuts on television. (1964) 14 George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company, 31 The Eiffel Tower opens in Paris, France (1889) commits suicide rather than facing the ravages of cancer.

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