Issue: February-March 2020
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Early voting’s first try
Area counties rank near top, bottom as New York expands its election system William Van Ness and Beth McLaughlin, the Republican and Democratic elections commissioners for Warren County, demonstrate one of the new electronic poll books used as part of New York’s system for early voting. Photo by Joan K. Lentini By EVAN read more
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From her point of view — Women filmmakers
Sally Kelton (played by Sally Forrest) pleads with Steve (Leo Penn) in Ida Lupino’s 1949 film “Not Wanted.” Lupino’s work was the focus in the first of a series of seminars on women filmmakers now under way at Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Mass. Courtesy photo/Kino Lorber By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. A read more
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Bakery, cafe unite in urban retrofit
Rock Hill’s restaurant side rises again in new space at Shirt Factory complex Matt Funiciello, the owner of Rock Hill Bakehouse, removes several loaves of bread from the oven at the bakery’s new home in the Shirt Factory complex in Glens Falls. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. read more
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Crossing barriers through art
MoCA show explores ways to forge links across cultures, media A detail view of Jimena Sarno’s “taracata trabaja” (2018), shows an image of the hornero, the national bird of Argentina, on ceramic plates. The sound installation, with music by Axel Krygier based on the bird’s song, will be included in “Kissing through a Curtain,” read more
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Vermont towns offer ‘sanctuary’ for gun rights
Borrowing the language of cities that offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, some towns in southwestern Vermont are proclaiming themselves sanctuaries for gun rights.As of late January, select boards in seven towns around the state had adopted resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, while voters in at least a dozen others were expected to take up read more
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New York’s first steps toward election reform
It was the late Abner Mikva, a longtime federal appeals court judge, who told a famous story of youthful idealism meeting cold, hard politics. In 1948, as Mikva recounted it, he walked into a local ward office of the Democratic Party in Chicago and offered to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson’s gubernatorial campaign, only to be read more
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A fascination with all things natural
GLENS FALLS, N.Y.When a large elm tree on the east side of the Glens Falls Insurance building was cut down in February 1912, Professor C.L. Williams counted the number of rings and estimated the tree was 75 years old. Williams at the time was writing a history of trees in Glens Falls, and he led read more