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

Tisha Dolton
May 10, 20243 min read
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Reorganizing the Yearbooks
Every so often, reorganization must occur. The local yearbook collection in the Folklife Center has been arranged by title for many...
The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
Nov 19, 20211 min read
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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...

Tisha Dolton
Oct 9, 20214 min read
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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...

Tisha Dolton
Aug 28, 20213 min read
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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...

Tisha Dolton
Jul 24, 20212 min read
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A Poet Named Bronk: William Bronk, Hudson Falls Poet
UNNAMED from Some Words: Poems by William Bronk (1992) In the narrowest and most immediate view, we are named and identifiable as...

Tisha Dolton
Apr 30, 20212 min read
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Books of Poetry: Richard Carella, Hudson Falls Poet
Nothing Is Great from Book of Nothing by Richard Carella (2013) Nothing is great- nothing is so great it can not be contained; there is...

Tisha Dolton
Apr 23, 20212 min read
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A Neighbor of Yesterday: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet
I am dedicating my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! The first featured Jonathan E....

Tisha Dolton
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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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...

Tisha Dolton
Mar 19, 20214 min read
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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...

Tisha Dolton
Feb 10, 202110 min read
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