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A Glimpse at Hallowe'en in & around Glens Falls, NY: 1883-1914
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...
Tisha Dolton
Oct 30, 20213 min read
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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...
Tisha Dolton
Aug 13, 20213 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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Redwork Embroidery
Redwork embroidery was one of the most popular forms of art needlework through most of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and into the...
Tisha Dolton
Jun 25, 20213 min read
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