Jacquiline Touba has lived in Glens Falls for a combined 40 years. As a PhD Sociologist, she spent 13 years of her life teaching and researching in the middle east and traveling throughout the world. When she returned to Glens Falls, she wanted to create a space where children could learn about the world outside […]
Frieda Toth started working at the Crandall Public Library when she was just 15, as a page. She worked as a page for four years at the library, and concluded that she never would be a librarian. But after several years working for AT&T, she decided that the corporate world wasn’t for her, and found […]
From newspaper caption: Teri Rogers (in 2007, Teri Ulrich-Gay) and Lori Calderon (left) selling and autographing copies of ‘Malta Memories’, a compilation of personal writings by local authors by Malta Town Historian, Teri Ulrich-Gay. Photo printed in the Ballston Journal December 6, 2007. Copy of photo provided by Teri Rogers. Teri Podnorski Rogers was born […]
Patricia “Tisha” Dolton has worked a lot of jobs. Along the way she’s scooped ice cream, been a line cook, and bought books for a major book retailer. Finally, she landed at the Crandall Public Library, where she worked as outreach coordinator. In 2019, she made the transition to Historian and Reference Librarian in The […]
Jenny Hutchinson, Curator of Museum Education & Programming, interpreting for a group of visitors at the Hyde Collection art museum. June 2019. Glens Falls, NY. Photo courtesy of The Hyde Collection. Jenny Hutchinson is an artist and an educator – she’s been the Curator of Education at the Hyde Collection since 2016. She came from […]
Chef Gary Fairchild flambéing dessert at the Hiland Golf Club (currently the Hiland Park Country Club). Fairchild has worked in and around Glens Falls as a chef for over fifteen years. 2003. Glens Falls, NY. Donated by Gary Fairchild. Chef Gary Fairchild has lived and worked in the Glens Falls area for nearly two decades. […]
Aerial shot of the Dexter International Airport, circa 1970s. Photo donated by Paul Cook. Paul Cook always worked in and around Watertown, but not always doing the same thing. He spent twenty years as a cost clerk at Hall Ski-Lift, and seventeen years as an Office Promotion Clerk at Fort Drum. But he also read […]
Jill Hewitt Johnson is 80 years old, and lives in a retirement community in Watertown. She became a dental hygienist in the North Country, worked all over the United States as a hygienist and in dental education, and spent the last seventeen years of her career at Watertown Correctional, a medium security prison with about […]
Thomas LaClair says he’s what’s called a ‘boomerang’ – he was raised in Clayton, spent most of his career in the US Airforce, and returned to the North Country in his retirement. Today, he lives about two miles from where he grew up in the 1950s and 60s, which was a 375 acre dairy farm. […]
Don Calarco has worked in the funeral service industry for 58 years. He’s the founder and owner of the D. L. Calarco Funeral Home in Watertown. He was the first person in his family to work in the funeral business, and thought he would be the only one—until his daughter, Francee Calarco, decided to go […]
