Summers in Lake George, NY are warm and humid, while the water stays pretty chilly. They are full of music and history, where tourists...

On May 20, 1914 the Infant Welfare Exhibit opened at City Hall in Glens Falls. The multi-day event was created to help mothers better...

In Autumn 2019 The Folklife Center partnered with North Country Public Radio for Glens Falls at Work Live! It culminated with a pop-up...

Last Friday, April 30, 2021, was the first annual National Historic Marker Day sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. It is a...

UNNAMED from Some Words: Poems by William Bronk (1992) In the narrowest and most immediate view, we are named and identifiable as...

Nothing Is Great from Book of Nothing by Richard Carella (2013) Nothing is great- nothing is so great it can not be contained; there is...

I am dedicating my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! The first featured Jonathan E....

I have decided to dedicate my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! I first learned...

"Set Your Daughters Free" (1912) Lyrics: Eugenie M. Raye-Smith, Tune: "Wait for the Wagon" traditional VERSE 1 Oh, New York with your...

Study Clubs were all the rage amongst middle & upper class women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Glens Falls boasted at least...

We have a wide variety of collections, here at The Folklife Center. They vary by content, as well as size. Some of our collections...

In researching the suffrage movement using local newspapers to uncover the names of women involved in the cause, I came across a small...

Equali-Tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork is the newest exhibition in the Folklife Gallery at Crandall Public Library, but with the...

We have a lot of cookbooks in the Folklife Center. I mean A LOT! When I started compiling artifacts, books, documents, and records...

Back in 2006, between the Town of Greenwich bicentennial (2003) and the village of Greenwich bicentennial (2009), librarian Claudia...

Maury Thompson came to me one day back in 2016, because he knew I was interested in the Woman Suffrage Movement, & told me about an...

It was the dream of many a person in 1943, to be photographed by Harold Rhodenbaugh (1901-1951), and Betty Truxell. The LOOK Magazine...

Back in the beginning of 2020, I was approached to revisit our slide show presentation of Hometown, USA as a complimentary program to the...

If you are in the Glens Falls, NY area before Labor Day, please stop by the Warren County Historical Society & take a look at their...

Before the pandemic hit, I was in the throws of curating two sister exhibitions. I did manage to get both of them up right before NY...