Tag: Glens Falls

The Rev. Alexis Hanna, never contrary, didn’t wait for a newspaper reporter to ask, “How does your garden grow?” Every year at harvest time, the Orthodox priest from South Glens Falls visited the office of The Post-Star to drop off a basket filled with “massive tomatoes,” some weighing more than 2 pounds, and other vegetables, read more

How long does it take to make a newspaper editor smile? In one local case in the 19th century, the process took 14 years.In 1869, Harriet Wing of Glens Falls, the wife of Halsey Rogers Wing, received a packet of catalpa seeds in a letter from Kentucky. Perhaps, at the time, Harriet was still grieving read more

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

Hundreds of daily newspapers went out of business a century ago, and others raised prices and cut expenses as they dealt with shortages of newsprint that sent the industry’s costs soaring. The Post-Star of Glens Falls, in an urgent alert to readers and advertisers, described what happened in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when that city’s daily newspapers read more

My childhood whimsy in the early 1960s was influenced by the space race, but my imagination extended far beyond the moon. I would hop on the backyard swing set, and after swinging a bit, I’d count down, very loud, in a deep voice in the style of a Mission Control television announcer, from 10 to read more