Kawennatente Cook grew up going to the Akwesasne Freedom School, and had been a teacher at the school for 14 years. She said she’s always felt like the school was a family, and she tries to continue that feeling now that she is a teacher herself.
Iawentas Nanticoke had been teaching at the Akwesasne Freedom School for 17 years. She said that she understood the importance of knowing her language from a very early age.
Jayson Cook grew up speaking Mohawk and had been teaching at the Akwesasne Freedom School for 8 months. He described how learning his own language when he was young made him frustrated when it wasn’t as accepted outside of his home.
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 […]
Library page Mary Bordwell dusts empty bookshelves in the new wing at Crandall Public Library, before the wing is open to the public. Glens Falls, NY. May 1970. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #220, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Library staff Teri Pozefsky, Marion Rudman, Darlene Dougher, and Teresa Olsen look over books on a book cart at Crandall Public Library. Glens Falls, NY. 1967. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #495, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Library clerks Marion Murphy and Ruth DeMarsh process new books for the collection of Crandall Public Library. Glens Falls, NY. 1969. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #205, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Ida Engeman and Rev. Robert Goerlitz use the new vico-matic Automatic Coin Operated Copy Machine at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY. 1964. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #236, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Emilie Lange, Genevieve Gillan and Frances Kelleher demonstrate devices for the blind at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY. 1965. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #232, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
Librarian Elizabeth S. McAndrews shows the film catalog to a patron. Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY. 1969. Courtesy of the Crandall Public Library Photograph Collection #1251, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.
