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...

Earlier this year, Kevin began the arduous task of delving into one of our newest collections, the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate...

Do you remember the scene in the Broadway musical & film "The Music Man" when the mayor's wife, Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, and the ladies...

Summers in Lake George, NY are warm and humid, while the water stays pretty chilly. They are full of music and history, where tourists...

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...

In Autumn 2019 The Folklife Center partnered with North Country Public Radio for Glens Falls at Work Live! It culminated with a pop-up...

Last Friday, April 30, 2021, was the first annual National Historic Marker Day sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. It is a...

UNNAMED from Some Words: Poems by William Bronk (1992) In the narrowest and most immediate view, we are named and identifiable as...

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...

I have decided to dedicate my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! I first learned...

"Trick or Treat!" we'd shout in unison, as our neighbor opened the door. We didn't expect to get–or give–a "trick". Halloween, for us,...