Todd DeGarmo
Is this F. B. Zimmer, beagle breeder of Gloversville?
Every Wednesday we have posted an image on Facebook from our current exhibition, Life Through Bloomer's Lens: Portraits from the Richard...
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Todd DeGarmo
- May 21, 2022
- 4 min
Lake George from Sabbath Day Point
"The view presented... is one of the finest on Lake George" proclaims an 1853 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion found...
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Todd DeGarmo
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
1864 Schuylerville Paper Mill Explosion
"A fearful boiler explosion" occurred in Schuylerville some 158 years ago, according to an 1864 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated...
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Tisha Dolton
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
Warford Davis, Local Track Star
John Warford Davis (1903-1989) was born in North Granville, Washington County, NY on 17 March 1903 to John Boyd Davis (1862-1926) and...
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Tisha Dolton
- Oct 9, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Tisha Dolton
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Tisha Dolton
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
When Pageants Were THE Thing: A Brief Look at Historical Pageantry & Tableaux in Upstate NY
Do you remember the scene in the Broadway musical & film "The Music Man" when the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, and the ladies...
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Tisha Dolton
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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