What's in a name? Kontinska? Kunkinski? Konopinska?
Are these photos of Janet Konopinska Lukaszewicz (1897/8-1992) of Hudson Falls, Washington County, NY prior to her marriage in 1924?
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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
Apr 41 min read
The Battenkill: A Poem by William Billings Watkins
In 2015 we had an exhibition in the Folklife Gallery entitled "Battenkill Inspired: The Flow of Creativity, Ingenuity, and the River"...
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Tisha Dolton
Feb 64 min read
Ticonderoga to China by way of Hudson Falls: Mildred R. Bolles Cornell Mills
On 14 August, 1916, Mildred married Erving Robert Cornell who was eleven years her senior...
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Tisha Dolton
Nov 28, 20233 min read
Mae Yarter Churchill: In Memoria
One of the surnames we keep seeing as we scan the Bloomer glass plate negatives is Yarter. Luckily, Mr. Bloomer included a first name on...
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Tisha Dolton
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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....
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Tisha Dolton
Dec 20, 20222 min read
Warren County Christmas Trees in NYC and DC
Like many locals, I was excited this past November when it was announced the the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would, once...
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Todd DeGarmo
May 21, 20224 min read
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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Tisha Dolton
Apr 2, 20222 min read
The Woman Sits Here Knitting: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet
In celebration of National Poetry Month... Neighbors of Yesterday by Jeanne Robert Foster When I go the see her, I look about the room...
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Todd DeGarmo
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Moose & Wolves
Moose & Wolves is a wood carving and painted wood sculpture by Benjamin N. Raino of Whitehall, where Washington County touches Lake...
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Todd DeGarmo
Mar 22, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Growing Up on the DeGarmo Farm
The attached video is the story of Anne DeGarmo VanVranken and her early life growing up on the DeGarmo family farm. The farm is located...
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Tisha Dolton
Nov 27, 20216 min read
Where on earth is Trionda, NY?
Earlier this year, Kevin began the arduous task of delving into one of our newest collections, the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate...
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Tisha Dolton
Aug 13, 20213 min read
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
May 28, 20213 min read
Tedd Browne & his Lake George Legacy.
Summers in Lake George, NY are warm and humid, while the water stays pretty chilly. They are full of music and history, where tourists...
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Tisha Dolton
May 21, 20216 min read
Infant & Child Welfare Exhibit in Glens Falls, May 1914
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...
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Tisha Dolton
May 14, 20212 min read
Glens Falls at Work
In Autumn 2019 The Folklife Center partnered with North Country Public Radio for Glens Falls at Work Live! It culminated with a pop-up...
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Tisha Dolton
May 7, 20212 min read
National Historic Marker Day 2021
Last Friday, April 30, 2021, was the first annual National Historic Marker Day sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. It is a...
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Tisha Dolton
Apr 30, 20212 min read
A Poet Named Bronk: William Bronk, Hudson Falls Poet
UNNAMED from Some Words: Poems by William Bronk (1992) In the narrowest and most immediate view, we are named and identifiable as...
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Tisha Dolton
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Books of Poetry: Richard Carella, Hudson Falls Poet
Nothing Is Great from Book of Nothing by Richard Carella (2013) Nothing is great- nothing is so great it can not be contained; there is...
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