Bowling came to downtown Glens Falls in 1888 for members and guest of an elite club. “The bowling alley at the rooms of the (Glens Falls) Athletic Club will be ready next Monday night,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Nov. 17. Contractor S. D. Kendrick constructed the…

A simple “good morning” was not sufficient enough of a breakfast greeting during the Y.M.C.A. Eastern Association training conference at Silver Bay Association in 1919. “Breakfast passes to the swinging rhythm of ‘Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping, Brother John? … Morning bells are ringing … Ding, dong ding!’” The…

This pun will leave you dancing with laughter. “The waltzer knows something about the ways of the whirled. — The Morning Star of Glens Falls, Oct. 6, 1888. Speaking of going round and round: “Bicyclists are allowed the privilege of pedaling without a license.” — The Morning Star, Oct. 19,1888 …

The Fort George Hotel and Horicon Lodge had closed for the season the previous day, as Lake George tourism season wound its way to a satisfying close. “The summer guests have left most of the Lake George hotels, and ere many days most of the houses will have closed their…

This husband and wife did not share a love of early radio. A Los Angeles woman filed for divorce on grounds that she had become a “radio widow,” The Post-Star of Glens Falls reported on its radio news page on April 17, 1923. “Ever since hubby came home with a…

Joseph Cook’s suggestion to organize a local celebration to mark the centennial of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys taking of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775 generated enthusiastic letters to the editor. “An immense concourse of people could be brought together if the affair were rightly managed and…

Add set designer to the resume of illustrator Douglass Crockwell. “Authenticity combined with imaginative skill has resulted in a scenery design which is realistic and authentic,” The Post-Star reported on March 4, 1936. Douglass Crockwell and his wife, also an artist, designed the scenery for the Glens Falls Operetta Club…

Paper industry executive Horace Moses, a Ticonderoga native, continued philanthropy almost to the day of his death. On his 86th birthday, one day before his death, the Horace A. Moses Foundation announced a $100,000 grant— the equivalent of $1.3 million in 2022dollars — payable over 10 years, to Junior Achievement…

After about two years of wandering Germany in search of the idyllic place to set down roots, tailor Constance Schultz concluded that there was no place like Glens Falls. Schultz had closed his former tailor shop in the Sherman building, at the corner of Glen and Park streets, in July…