I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole to write a biography for the man who helped shape our archives and special collections.

Inspired by an article in The Chronicle about local political women written by Diana Palmer, a new initiative is underway to celebrate...

Are these photos of Janet Konopinska Lukaszewicz (1897/8-1992) of Hudson Falls, Washington County, NY prior to her marriage in 1924?

Remembering Windfield Designs creator, Henry Musser (1935-2024).

On 14 August, 1916, Mildred married Erving Robert Cornell who was eleven years her senior...

One of the surnames we keep seeing as we scan the Bloomer glass plate negatives is Yarter. Luckily, Mr. Bloomer included a first name on...

About 18 months ago, Kevin wrote about Francis J. Biggart of Hudson Falls, NY. That post featured a photograph from our Richard M....

Like many locals, I was excited this past November when it was announced the the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would, once...

Over the past decade, two seemingly unconnected events have become entwined by a vast army of crocheters. One event is the decline of the...

In celebration of National Poetry Month... Neighbors of Yesterday by Jeanne Robert Foster When I go the see her, I look about the room...

John Warford Davis (1903-1989) was born in North Granville, Washington County, NY on 17 March 1903 to John Boyd Davis (1862-1926) and...

Earlier this year, Kevin began the arduous task of delving into one of our newest collections, the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate...

As the Glens Falls tradition, Boo-2-You gets underway today (10/30/2021) from 2-4 PM, it got me thinking of ways we celebrate Halloween...

After my post about Windfield Designs, Inc we heard from a number of you sharing stories about your own collections. Some folks have one...

In amongst the institutional & organizational archives, maps, genealogy, and local history books one expects to find in a library...

Do you remember the scene in the Broadway musical & film "The Music Man" when the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, and the ladies...

Today we had a gentleman from Colorado visiting the area. He is originally from the Glens Falls/Hudson Falls area and came in with his...

Four years before Eva Viola Austin Judkins began her illustrious, thirty year career on the Glens Falls Board of Education, she attempted...

Redwork embroidery was one of the most popular forms of art needlework through most of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and into the...

The Friends of Crandall Public Library have been hosting book sales for about as long as they have been in existence. Started in Spring...