Tisha Dolton
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
- 3 min
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
- Apr 2, 2022
- 2 min
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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The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
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
- 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 2, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Tisha Dolton
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Tisha Dolton
- May 21, 2021
- 6 min
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 7, 2021
- 2 min
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 16, 2021
- 3 min
A Neighbor of Yesterday: Jeanne Robert Foster, Adirondack Poet
I am dedicating my blog posts this month to local poets & poetry because April is National Poetry Month! The first featured Jonathan E....
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Tisha Dolton
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Folklife After Hours Presents Suffrage Singer!
"Set Your Daughters Free" (1912) Lyrics: Eugenie M. Raye-Smith, Tune: "Wait for the Wagon" traditional VERSE 1 Oh, New York with your...
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Tisha Dolton
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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