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Tisha Dolton
Aug 13, 20213 min read
When Pageants Were THE Thing: A Brief Look at Historical Pageantry & Tableaux in Upstate NY
Do you remember the scene in the Broadway musical & film "The Music Man" when the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, and the ladies...
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Tisha Dolton
Jul 2, 20214 min read
Eva Austin Judkins and the School Board Election of 1914
Four years before Eva Viola Austin Judkins began her illustrious, thirty year career on the Glens Falls Board of Education, she attempted...
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Tisha Dolton
Jun 25, 20213 min read
Redwork Embroidery
Redwork embroidery was one of the most popular forms of art needlework through most of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and into the...
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Tisha Dolton
Feb 10, 202110 min read
Jeannette Roosa Davis, her husband Loyal, & the Anti-Suffragists of Glens Falls
In researching the suffrage movement using local newspapers to uncover the names of women involved in the cause, I came across a small...
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