Guest Lectures

Upcoming lectures can be found here.

Mapping the Adirondacks- The Legacy of Verplanck Colvin

Benjamin Franklin Slept Here: The Founding Father’s Failed Mission to Make Canada the 14th Colony

The Last of the Mohicans at 200

The 1916 Presidential Election: Comparisons & Contrast with Today

Voices from the Past: A Collection of Cemetery Tour Performances

The Glens Falls Trolley Project

Repose of the Fallen at Lake George Battlefield Park

Return to Timbuctoo

How the Bicycle Changed the World

Great Fires in Glens Falls

Five Centuries of Music & a Look Ahead

The History of Joshua’s Rock on Lake George

The Grand Canal & The Rise of the Empire State

Family History at the Folklife Center

Seneca Ray Stoddard’s Saratoga Connection

Paranormal Activity at the Chapman (Part 1)

Lake George Battlefield Park: History and Future

Dr. Joseph Warren: Namesake of our County

Black Baseball Players in the Adirondack Region in the 19th Century

At Your Service: Shirley McFerson, The McFerson Family and a Cast of Thousands

The Adirondack Balloon Festival

Narrative Cloth: A Look at Storytelling in the Fiber Arts

The Photographs of James W. Mann

Aspic, Gelatine, and Rose Knox: The Most Famous Businesswoman in America (That You Never Knew)

The History and Importance of Pride

Commemorative Community Quilts: Then and Now

The Sister Cities Program of Glens Falls & Warren County

Women in Revolutionary War Programming

How the Community Built the Glens Falls Chronicle 

National Women’s History Month: Celebrating Our Legacy, Inspiring Our Future

Tintypes with Craig Murphy

Lost and Found in Adirondack Memory: An Update from the Timbuctoo Archaeology Project

Perfect Gems: The Work of Seneca Ray Stoddard and Jesse Sumner Wooley

America’s Living Unknown Soldiers: Amnesia and Veteran Imposters after the Great War

Accused of Witchcraft in New York

Clark & Marshall’s 100th Anniversary of the First 46 Completion and the 46er Organization Gives Back

Redwork Embroidery and the Suffragist Tea Cozy Project

Joseph Warren: Why Call a County Warren?

LGBTQ+ History is New York State (And American) History

The Traditional Art of Black Ash Basketry

Merriment & Memories: How we Decorated, Celebrated, and Made Moments to Remember

Lessons in Thread; Unstitched

Talking about James Bond, Route 9, and Me

Legacy Builders: The First Activists of the Lincoln Memorial

Revisiting Black Histories: Local Stories, Transnational Impact

Slavery’s Stubborn Imprint: Legacies of White Supremacism in Warren County

The Lost Art of the Painted Photograph

Dressed for Freedom: the Politics of Fashion in American History

Halfway Brook: Small Stream/Big Story

The Unseen Army: Psychiatric Trauma and American Veterans of the Great War

The Grain Silos of Buffalo

Curing in the Adirondacks

Seneca Ray Stoddard’s Best Work

From Funky to Functional: 1950s – 1970s

The Ridge: Queensbury’s Historic Road from Glens Falls to Lake George