Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Best Brooms in the World: The story of the Whitmyer Broom Factory

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Broomcorn from Schenectady County's Flag. The symbols on the Schenectady County flag represent industries that helped build Sche...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Pioneer of us All: The Story of Pasquale DeMarco

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 Photo of Pasquale DeMarco from 1899 taken from the Grems-Doolittle Library family files. Between 1890 and 1930 immigration from Ita...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Introduction to our New Librarian, Michael Maloney

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Hi everyone! My first few weeks as Librarian/Archivist at the Grems-Doolittle Library have been very exciting and interesting. I have be...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Melissa's Goodbye

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From our Librarian/Archivist, Melissa Tacke:  The Grems-Doolittle Library Blog will be quiet for a time, as I leave my position at the end...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Early Railroads and a Canal...in Scotia?

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Detail of map A Map of Scotia Estate, Late the property of John Sanders, Esquire, now deceased: According to a survey thereof, made prepar...
Friday, January 30, 2015

The Blizzard of 1888

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A view of the lower State Street after the Blizzard of 1888. Merchant storefronts, including T. H. Reeves at 257 State Street and Myers th...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Civil Defense and Civil Disobedience: Operation Alert in Schenectady in 1960

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Protesters assembled in Veterans Park (then Crescent Park) at 1:45 p.m. on May 3, 1960, and remained holdings signs through the take-cov...