When the Glens Falls Board of Public Safety challenged local service clubs and the Chamber of Commerce to come up with an alternative to Halloween mischief-making in 1946, artist/illustrator Douglass Crockwell led the charge. “Something in the nature of a noble experiment will take place in City Park and the…

The editor was a self-appointed calendar art critic. “It would seem that all the genius of art had been brought to exercise itself upon the calendars for 1888,” The Morning Star editorialized on Jan. 6,1888. “This is true of none of the specimens that have come within our observation more…

The wish of F.A. Johnson, charter president of the Glens Falls Young Men’s Christian Association, has been realized many times over in the past 134 years. “With earnest, prayerful, united and diligent effort, we may reasonably expect a good work by the association in the year ahead which we now…

Social organizations in the late 19th century often celebrated Leap Year with dances at which women would invite the men. The Young People’s Christian Union of Glens Falls Methodist Episcopal Church came up with another way to turn the tables, pun intended, on social convention. The Morning Star of Glens…

“Whew! This is the kind of weather that lowers the stock in coal bins and makes the dealer in anthracite chuckle as he contemplates the prospective addition to the shekels in his coffers,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Jan. 13, 1888. Precisely, the temperature was twenty below…

Local talent was an incentive that helped attract a banking convention to The Queensbury Hotel. “‘Safe Deposit Music Box,’ a program of local talent … provided relaxation and entertainment last night for 200 delegates and their wives attending the New York State Deposit Association convention being conducted in The Queensbury,”…

Artist/illustrator Douglass Crockwell cast a one-of-a-kind commemorative medal as a gift for Eleanor Roosevelt for a keepsake of her visit to Glens Falls in 1954. The former First Lady spoke at the Glens Falls High School auditorium on Jan. 27 about the urgency of civic engagement and tolerance. “The American…

A series of five programs about film history at Crandall Library in 1937 concluded with “a look into the future” when as “a special feature” artist/illustrator Douglass Crockwell showed his new three-minute animated film “Simple Destiny.” Crockwell, of Glens Falls, had been experimenting the past few months with animated abstract…

Henry Crandall, who co-founded Crandall Public Library in 1892, also was a benefactor of youth music. On Christmas 1887, each choir boy at Church of the Messiah Episcopal, where Crandall worshipped, received a bank book with an unspecified deposit, as a gift from Crandall. “On the front page of the…