top of page


Bringing Glens Falls Women’s History to Life: New Book Project for Middle School Readers AnnouncedÂ
Inspired by an article in The Chronicle about local political women written by Diana Palmer, a new initiative is underway to celebrate...
Tisha Dolton
Mar 133 min read
42 views
0 comments


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
47 views
1 comment


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
34 views
0 comments


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...
Tisha Dolton
May 21, 20216 min read
84 views
0 comments


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
137 views
0 comments
Folklife Center Blog
Posts by Date
Posts by Author
bottom of page