What's in a name? Kontinska? Kunkinski? Konopinska?
Are these photos of Janet Konopinska Lukaszewicz (1897/8-1992) of Hudson Falls, Washington County, NY prior to her marriage in 1924?
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Tisha Dolton
Feb 64 min read
Ticonderoga to China by way of Hudson Falls: Mildred R. Bolles Cornell Mills
On 14 August, 1916, Mildred married Erving Robert Cornell who was eleven years her senior...
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Tisha Dolton
Nov 28, 20233 min read
Mae Yarter Churchill: In Memoria
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...
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Tisha Dolton
Jan 11, 20233 min read
Gertrude W. Biggart Holmes: Wife, mother, teacher, citizen
About 18 months ago, Kevin wrote about Francis J. Biggart of Hudson Falls, NY. That post featured a photograph from our Richard M....
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Tisha Dolton
Apr 2, 20222 min read
The Woman Sits Here Knitting: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet
In celebration of National Poetry Month... Neighbors of Yesterday by Jeanne Robert Foster When I go the see her, I look about the room...
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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Growing Up on the DeGarmo Farm
The attached video is the story of Anne DeGarmo VanVranken and her early life growing up on the DeGarmo family farm. The farm is located...
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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
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 16, 20213 min read
A Neighbor of Yesterday: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet
I am dedicating my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! The first featured Jonathan E....
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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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