Tisha Dolton
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
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
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
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
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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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Nov 27, 2021
- 6 min
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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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
- Nov 19, 2021
- 1 min
Reorganizing the Yearbooks
Every so often, reorganization must occur. The local yearbook collection in the Folklife Center has been arranged by title for many...
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Tisha Dolton
- Oct 9, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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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Tisha Dolton
- Feb 10, 2021
- 10 min
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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Tisha Dolton
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Cooking for Funds: Cookbooks & Food Sales
We have a lot of cookbooks in the Folklife Center. I mean A LOT! When I started compiling artifacts, books, documents, and records...
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Tisha Dolton
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
Taking a LOOK at the Hometown USA Color Slide Collection
Back in the beginning of 2020, I was approached to revisit our slide show presentation of Hometown, USA as a complimentary program to the...
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Tisha Dolton
- Aug 13, 2020
- 15 min
Suffragists in Warren County, NY
If you are in the Glens Falls, NY area before Labor Day, please stop by the Warren County Historical Society & take a look at their...
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Tisha Dolton
- Aug 3, 2020
- 5 min
Pandemic! Florence D. Wilmarth and the Glens Falls Club of College Women
Before the pandemic hit, I was in the throws of curating two sister exhibitions. I did manage to get both of them up right before NY...
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