Tag: Glens Falls

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    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun

    Adirondack festival plans three musicals and a thriller in milestone season Sid Solomon, Sam Kedere, Janet Krupin and Luce Lavely perform in Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 2018 production of “The Jedi Handbook.” The festival will offer four new shows for its 25th season. Courtesy photo/Jim McLaughlin   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. In the read more

    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun
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    A downtown theater reborn

    After decades-long intermission, performance space has second act Elizabeth Miller bought the long-dormant Park Theater in downtown Glens Falls and restored it to its original function as a space for performances and entertainment. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. The activities planned in the coming months at The Park read more

    A downtown theater reborn
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    Cleaner than coal? — Cement plant’s plan raises concern

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    Cement company’s alternative-fuel plan raises questions about air emissions The sprawling Lehigh Cement Co. plant in Glens Falls is seeking approval from state regulators to supplement its normal fuel supply of coal and natural gas with raggertail, a mixture of plastic and paper left over the process of recycling paper and cardboard. Joan K. Lentini read more

    Cleaner than coal? — Cement plant’s plan raises concern
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    From Japan, fine art for the masses

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    Hyde exhibit explores Ukiyo-e prints and their influence in the West The printmaker Tsuchiya Koitsu’s “Snow at Zojoli” (1933) is among the works included in an exhibit of Japanese woodcuts that opens this month at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Syracuse University Art Collection/courtesy The Hyde Collection   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer GLENS FALLS, read more

    From Japan, fine art for the masses
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    Lessons from the ‘professor’ of the road

    It doesn’t rise to the level of a bucket list item, but for about three decades I’ve contemplated traveling coast to coast by Greyhound bus and writing a travel narrative. You can imagine my intrigue recently when I came across the epic poem “A Gregarious Greyhound” that Walter Brown Leonard wrote in 1936 about a read more

    Lessons from the ‘professor’ of the road
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    A political alliance that broke a racial barrier

    GLENS FALLS, N.Y.Newspaper clippings in the Addison B. Colvin scrapbooks at Crandall Public Library’s Folklife Center tell the story of Charles W. Anderson, a civil rights and political activist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who had connections to Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs.Anderson was a spirited orator who would later be called read more

    A political alliance that broke a racial barrier
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    In teaching, a chance to learn

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    Artist finds inspiration through roles at museum, college Jenny Hutchinson works on a project last year at her studio in the Shirt Factory building in Glens Falls. Hutchinson is education director at The Hyde Collection museum but sees her real work as her art. Courtesy photo   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. By read more

    In teaching, a chance to learn
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    At The Hyde Collection, new gallery adds modern element

    New gallery adds modern dimension at The Hyde Collection The new Feibes & Schmitt Gallery opened in June at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. The gallery is the result of a donation by Werner Feibes of Schenectady, who with his late partner James Schmitt amassed a large collection of modern and contemporary art over read more

    At The Hyde Collection, new gallery adds modern element
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    Adirondack Theatre Festival troupe focuses on the fresh

    Adirondack Theatre Festival opens 22nd season devoted to new works By TELLY HALKIASContributing Writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y.   Ken Farrell and Kate Braun play Irv and Peg in last year’s production of “Kalamazoo” at Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls. This year’s festival runs through mid-August and features five new plays. Courtesy photo/Jim McLaughlin Chad read more

    Adirondack Theatre Festival troupe focuses on the fresh
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    The Einstein of Glens Falls

    Local man’s memoir details ties to famous physicist but draws questions By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y.   Stephen Einstein’s book “My Uncle Albert” describes the five boyhood summers he says he spent with Albert EinsteinJoan K. Lentini photo It’s late afternoon, and Stephen Einstein has just arrived at a downtown diner at an read more

    The Einstein of Glens Falls