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Tisha Dolton
Oct 30, 20213 min read
A Glimpse at Hallowe'en in & around Glens Falls, NY: 1883-1914
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...
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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
Jun 18, 20212 min read
Book Sales: The First 25 Years of the Friends of Crandall Public Library
The Friends of Crandall Public Library have been hosting book sales for about as long as they have been in existence. Started in Spring...
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Tisha Dolton
May 21, 20216 min read
Infant & Child Welfare Exhibit in Glens Falls, May 1914
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...
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Tisha Dolton
May 7, 20212 min read
National Historic Marker Day 2021
Last Friday, April 30, 2021, was the first annual National Historic Marker Day sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. It is a...
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Tisha Dolton
Apr 2, 20212 min read
Folklife After Hours Presents Suffrage Singer!
"Set Your Daughters Free" (1912) Lyrics: Eugenie M. Raye-Smith, Tune: "Wait for the Wagon" traditional VERSE 1 Oh, New York with your...
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Tisha Dolton
Mar 19, 20214 min read
The Monday Reading Club of Glens Falls, NY
Study Clubs were all the rage amongst middle & upper class women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Glens Falls boasted at least...
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