Glens Falls is often referred to as “Hometown USA.”

The nickname wasn’t created by public relations people in the city. It came from a national magazine in the early 1940s whose editors went looking for a small town that represented life in America at the time, and they found Glens Falls.

It was a place where life was going on – dances, school, parades, recreation, business and industry, while people in the city were also enthusiastically supporting the war effort with paper drives and scrap metal drives.

Learn more about how the nickname is a point of pride for the city by watching the video of Mark Mulholland’s story.