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

Study Clubs were all the rage amongst middle & upper class women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Glens Falls boasted at least nine different study clubs, with other women's organizations hosting similar activities. The Monday Reading Club formed in 1905, and was like many such clubs around the country. They met bi-weekly at the home of a hostess, and another member served as the presenter of the designated topic. They rotated both positions throughout the club year w

Back in 2006, between the Town of Greenwich bicentennial (2003) and the village of Greenwich bicentennial (2009), librarian Claudia Blackler and educator/singer Debi Craig had an idea. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have local singer/songwriter, Bob Warren, write a composition about Susan B. Anthony, her life in Battenville, and her suffrage activities? Funds were obtained, research was conducted, and Bob began writing. On August 8, 2009, at the VFW pavilion on Abeel Ave in Gree