Left to right: John R. Greenwood, Cayden Bobley & Alex Western.
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Alex Western (left) & Field Horne (right) setting up in the Long Room at Saratoga County History Center a.k.a. Brookside Museum.
WRITTEN BY JOHN R. GREENWOOD | PHOTOS PROVIDED
In the spring of 2022, Field Horne and the Saratoga County History Center asked if I would like to be involved with a new exhibit. The Saratoga County History Center and the History Department at Skidmore College collaborated on a photo exhibit titled "County Life in Photographs.” As a lifelong resident of Saratoga County, I embraced the opportunity to join in. I support any project that helps promote and preserve this area's vital history. As a bonus, I got the chance to look through vintage photographs of the county where my roots run deep. Field assembled a team consisting of three students from the History Department at Skidmore: Cayden Bobley, from Sea Cliff, New York, Chloe Hanrahan from Andover, Massachusetts, and Alex Western from Northampton, Massachusetts. Exhibit management was Maris Lau, from Hong Kong. Department Chair Professor Tillman Nechtman was the student's faculty advisor. My function was to help the students familiarize themselves with the various historical societies within the county. They would then select 26 Saratoga County-specific photos that would interpret the way residents interacted in social, political, and celebratory contexts. Although a few of the images were collected from surrounding historical societies, the majority of them were found within the Saratoga County History Center's photo collection.
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