Study Clubs were all the rage amongst middle & upper class women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Glens Falls boasted at least nine different study clubs, with other women's organizations hosting similar activities. The Monday Reading Club formed in 1905, and was like many such clubs around the country. They met bi-weekly at the home of a hostess, and another member served as the presenter of the designated topic. They rotated both positions throughout the club year w

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 article he ran across while researching Charles Evans Hughes for his book The Animated Feather Duster: Slow News Day Tales of the Legendary Facial Hair of Charles Evans Hughes. We had not yet obtained our library subscription to Newspapers.com, so Maury was weeding through unindexed microfilm by the Reference Desk when he found a reference to a s