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 in the area. Using our Newspapers.com subscription, I came across these... The Glens Falls Morning Star reported on October 31, 1883 "Halloween to-night. The lads and lasses will indulge in old-time amusements, such as ducking for apples in a basin of water, throwing apple peelings over the shoulder hoping to see them form the initial of the

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 care for their babies and young children. According to the May 5, 1914 article in the Post-Star the "exhibit consists of placards, cartoons and photographs occupying about seventy linear feet and will be installed on the top floor of City hall." Another Post-Star article on May 19, 1914, states a "well trained baby welfare nurse*, employed by t

Last Friday, April 30, 2021, was the first annual National Historic Marker Day sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. It is a day to celebrate local history, check on the historic markers & clean them with mild soap and water if conditions allow, as well as tidy & pick up garbage around the sites. As resident Historian at the Folklife Center, I took the day to checkout some markers around the Fort Miller/Thomson/Clarks Mills area in eastern Washington County where I

Equali-Tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork is the newest exhibition in the Folklife Gallery at Crandall Public Library, but with the library limitations due to pandemic, the exhibition had to go virtual. In the coming weeks I will be writing additional blog posts about the exhibition, focusing on the suffragists by region, as that is how they are displayed in the physical exhibition, and providing more insight on these mostly unfamiliar women. Equali-tea: Suffragist Tea C

We have a lot of cookbooks in the Folklife Center. I mean A LOT! When I started compiling artifacts, books, documents, and records together for my exhibit "Beyond Suffrage: Women’s Clubs in Greater Glens Falls, NY" I knew I would include a section of cookbooks. The twenty cookbooks I chose ranged from church groups to sororities, from garden clubs to ladies auxiliaries, and covered over one hundred years from 1882 until the 1990s. Occasionally the cover art featured famous a

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 exhibitions. The museum is free & open Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM this August. The flagship exhibit, Warren County 360° is on permanent display & my co-curated exhibit, in conjunction with the Old Fort House Museum & featuring dioramas by educator Cindy Whitman, Woman Suffrage in Warren and Washington Counties: 1883-1917 is on d

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 shutdown for four months, but because both exhibitions are on display in Phase 4 organizations (one in a museum, one here in the Folklife Center) very few people have seen them. Therefore with my first few blog posts, I will be discussing & sharing my exhibitions with you. "Beyond Suffrage: Women’s Clubs in Greater Glens Falls, NY" uses collecti