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Tisha Dolton
May 10, 20243 min read
Remembering Henry Musser, the Artist behind Windfield Designs
Remembering Windfield Designs creator, Henry Musser (1935-2024).
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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
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 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
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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Tisha Dolton
Mar 5, 20216 min read
Bicycles on Sidewalks: Rufus M. Cole and the laws of Glens Falls, NY.
We have a wide variety of collections, here at The Folklife Center. They vary by content, as well as size. Some of our collections...
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Tisha Dolton
Feb 10, 202110 min read
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, 20204 min read
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
Sep 3, 20202 min read
Revolt! 1916 & 2016
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...
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Tisha Dolton
Aug 27, 20204 min read
It's No Cinch! Local Girls Pose for National Magazine
It was the dream of many a person in 1943, to be photographed by Harold Rhodenbaugh (1901-1951), and Betty Truxell. The LOOK Magazine...
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Tisha Dolton
Aug 21, 20204 min read
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, 202015 min read
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, 20205 min read
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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