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Gertrude W. Biggart Holmes: Wife, mother, teacher, citizen
About 18 months ago, Kevin wrote about Francis J. Biggart of Hudson Falls, NY. That post featured a photograph from our Richard M....
Tisha Dolton
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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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...
Tisha Dolton
Jul 2, 20214 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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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...
Tisha Dolton
Oct 29, 20204 min read
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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...
Tisha Dolton
Aug 3, 20205 min read
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