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
May 103 min read
Remembering Henry Musser, the Artist behind Windfield Designs
Remembering Windfield Designs creator, Henry Musser (1935-2024).
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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
Dec 20, 20222 min read
Warren County Christmas Trees in NYC and DC
Like many locals, I was excited this past November when it was announced the the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would, once...
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Tisha Dolton
Nov 4, 20223 min read
Stitch Group Creates Textile Art with a Purpose
Over the past decade, two seemingly unconnected events have become entwined by a vast army of crocheters. One event is the decline of the...
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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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Tisha Dolton
Mar 19, 20222 min read
Warford Davis, Local Track Star
John Warford Davis (1903-1989) was born in North Granville, Washington County, NY on 17 March 1903 to John Boyd Davis (1862-1926) and...
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Tisha Dolton
Nov 27, 20216 min read
Where on earth is Trionda, NY?
Earlier this year, Kevin began the arduous task of delving into one of our newest collections, the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate...
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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
Oct 9, 20214 min read
More Windfield Designs & Cornbread...
After my post about Windfield Designs, Inc we heard from a number of you sharing stories about your own collections. Some folks have one...
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Tisha Dolton
Aug 28, 20213 min read
The World's Seventh Greatest Magician: The John C. Mannix Magicians Library
In amongst the institutional & organizational archives, maps, genealogy, and local history books one expects to find in a library...
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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 24, 20212 min read
Windfield Designs of Glens Falls, NY
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...
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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 28, 20213 min read
Tedd Browne & his Lake George Legacy.
Summers in Lake George, NY are warm and humid, while the water stays pretty chilly. They are full of music and history, where tourists...
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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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