Last American Editor, Vol. 2 has arrived with a special offer

Buy the new book and get volume 1 for half-price.

By Ken Tingley

My new book opens with my column about the region’s outpouring of emotion on the day of Rep. Jerry Solomon’s funeral  in 2001.

It ends with the recognition by one reader who jogged through my life in 2017 telling me how important the newspaper was to his family.

In between are 88 other columns that touch your heart one minute - Ray Agnew giving a kidney to a co-worker - and leave you in disgust the next - a group of young people running away from an boat accident that left a young girl dead.

The stories include local people from all walks of life: union leader Larry Bulman, congressional candidate Doris Kelly, Finders Keepers’ owner Kyleen Wade, Queensbury school principal Patrick Pomerville, Thurman Supervisor Evelyn Wood, Post-Star reporter Maury Thompson, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, World War II veteran Floyd Dumas, Glens Falls mayoral candidate Bud Taylor, long-time state senator Betty Little, Post-Star copy editor Mary Joseph, Adirondack Red Wing hockey legend Glenn Merkosky,  basketball sensation Jimmer Fredette and Sports Illustrated writer Tim Layden.

There is also the coverage of the Finch, Pruyn strike in 2001, a series of very public suicides, the mystery of a local Civil War soldier pardoned by Abraham Lincoln, saying goodbye to the state Girls basketball tournament in Queensbury, the long discussion over the Child Victims Act and the violent protests in Glens Falls in 2019.

I thank all of you for supporting my post-retirement projects and for being part of The Front Page three times a week. Volume 2 follows the format of “The Last American Editor” and the stories provide another slice of our community history.

In appreciation, if you purchase the new book ($24.95) now, my publisher will sell the first book of columns ($18.95) at half price and include free shipping.

Or you can buy your first copy of the new book and a second copy of the new book for half-price also with free shipping.

An entire region mourned the passing of Rep. Jerry Solomon.

Floyd Dumas, a shoe cobbler who made a daring escape in Italy during World War II, broke into song while telling me his when he was 91.

The Finch, Pruyn strike dragged on for 159 days in 2001. It did not end well for the workers.

It was a special night at the Civic Center when they retired Glenn Merkosky’s hockey jersey and raised it into the rafters. It is still there today.