Remembering Windfield Designs creator, Henry Musser (1935-2024).

Like many locals, I was excited this past November when it was announced the the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would, once...

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...

After my post about Windfield Designs, Inc we heard from a number of you sharing stories about your own collections. Some folks have one...

In amongst the institutional & organizational archives, maps, genealogy, and local history books one expects to find in a library...

Do you remember the scene in the Broadway musical & film "The Music Man" when the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, and the ladies...

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...

Four years before Eva Viola Austin Judkins began her illustrious, thirty year career on the Glens Falls Board of Education, she attempted...

The Friends of Crandall Public Library have been hosting book sales for about as long as they have been in existence. Started in Spring...

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...

"Set Your Daughters Free" (1912) Lyrics: Eugenie M. Raye-Smith, Tune: "Wait for the Wagon" traditional VERSE 1 Oh, New York with your...

Study Clubs were all the rage amongst middle & upper class women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Glens Falls boasted at least...

We have a wide variety of collections, here at The Folklife Center. They vary by content, as well as size. Some of our collections...

In researching the suffrage movement using local newspapers to uncover the names of women involved in the cause, I came across a small...

We have a lot of cookbooks in the Folklife Center. I mean A LOT! When I started compiling artifacts, books, documents, and records...

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...

It was the dream of many a person in 1943, to be photographed by Harold Rhodenbaugh (1901-1951), and Betty Truxell. The LOOK Magazine...

Back in the beginning of 2020, I was approached to revisit our slide show presentation of Hometown, USA as a complimentary program to the...

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...

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...