History, Natural History & the Arts
Tri-County Literacy Center (TLC) is hosting an art show fundraiser, Celebrating the Art of Community in the Friends Gallery, located on the second floor of Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY.
The show is scheduled to run through September 27, 2023, and is in celebration of National Literacy Month. [Read more…] about National Literacy Month Benefit Art Show in Glens Falls
The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY is celebrating their 30th anniversary with a free event in City Park outside the library on Tuesday, July 25th, 10 am to 5 pm. Over 50 folk artists are expected to fill the park demonstrating their crafts and traditions. [Read more…] about Glens Falls’ Folklife Center 30th Anniversary Festival
Fort William Henry Museum in Lake George opened its doors to tourists in May 1954. Over its early years, the museum acquired a large collection of anchors, grapnels and grappling irons (sometimes calls grappling hooks) dating to the 18th century. [Read more…] about Marine Artifacts at Fort William Henry
The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library has been awarded three grants for its project, Champlain Canal Stories, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the opening of the canal: $29,550 from the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership, in partnership with NEIWPCC, using funds awarded by the National Park Service, $11,950 from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and $2,500 from the Capital District Library Council. [Read more…] about Champlain Canal Stories Receives Funding
Charles Evans Hughes, a Glens Falls native, was Governor of New York from 1907 to October 1910, when he resigned to accept appointment as a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. He resigned from the court in June 1916 to accept the Republican nomination for President, narrowly losing to incumbent Democrat Woodrow Wilson. He later served as U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States.
Many places in the Adirondacks lay claim to the distinction that Charles Evans Hughes slept there. A century ago, it was at the home of Louis and Charlotte Hyde, now The Hyde Collection art museum, where Charles and Antoinette Hughes stayed overnight on June 24th, 1922, the night before dedication of the Helen Hughes Memorial Chapel, built in memory of their daughter, at Silver Bay Association in Hague on Lake George. [Read more…] about Charles Evans Hughes Doc Screening in Glens Falls on Saturday
The Champlain Valley Suffrage Centennial 2021 Auto Tour events are set for July 31st, August 6th-7th, August 14th, August 21st. The tour commemorates and celebrates the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and recognizes and demonstrates the many ways women fought for the right to vote prior to 1920. [Read more…] about Champlain Valley Suffrage Auto Tours Set