Today’s Amsterdam Birthday Blog celebrant absolutely had to be one of the most popular medical doctor’s in the history of the Rug City. If you drove by his office on the corner of Guy Park Avenue and Guy Street on an evening when he had office hours, you’d often see a line of his loyal patients snaked out the front door, across the small front porch and onto the sidewalk. The vast majority of them didn’t mind waiting a bit. Dr. Feori “Fred” Pipito was both a doctor and a friend to generations of Amsterdam families. In addition to maintaining the busiest private practice of any physician in the city…

You can read the rest of this story in my new book “A Year’s Worth of Amsterdam Birthdays.” To order your copy, click here.