Peg Johnston, creator of this website, passed away in May 2023. She was a tireless supporter of many community activities in and around Binghamton, and thus leaves a big hole in these organizations and our hearts. For more information about her involvements, see:
Bob Johnston was many things–chemist, photographer, environmentalist, nature enthusiast, swimmer–and a political idealist. While in college he was introduced to the ideas of socialism and communism and he adopted an economic determinism philosophy and stood up for better conditions for poor and working people. He joined the American Communist Party (which did not advocate the…
Carl was six years older than his cousin Peg but there was a mutual admiration and bond, complicated by the great geographical distance between them, and ultimately, by Carl’s untimely death due to AIDS. What follows is a letter from Carl on coming out, a remembrance published in the women’s newspaper Hera (Binghamton NY Women’s…
Robert Clark Johnston (Bob) is the eldest son of Herman Weiss Johnston and Mildred Clark Johnston. He had a lifelong passion for photography, especially developing his own black and white (silver tone) images. He was a member of the Cooperative Gallery and a Houston Photo Gallery when he lived there. His subjects were most often…
John Henry Johnston, b. 3-13-47 d. 9-5-2003, the son of Ruth and Robert Johnston. John attended the Forestry School at SUNY-Syracuse for landscape architecture and took a position at Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) as the Operations Manager. He had a breadth of knowledge about all kinds of systems at the College. John received the Chancellor’s…
Peg Johnston, daughter of Bob Johnston and Ruth Freeman Johnston. This is an essay by Peg Johnston analyzing abortion politics and especially emphasizing that individuals have the power to change the culture around abortion if only they would speak up. She was to continue this theme in her decades long work with the Abortion Conversation…
This is one of Peg Johnston’s “thought pieces” on abortion politics from the perspective of an independent provider. It was published first in a provider newsletter, published by Johnston, and then after some updates in an anthology by Krista Jacob entitled “Our Choices, Our Lives, Unapologetic Writings on Abortion.” “From the Birmingham Bombing to September…
Peg Johnston, born Margaret Ruth, in 1948 is the daughter of Robert Clark Johnston and Ruth Freeman Johnston. She has been active in many causes, notably abortion care and anti-violence work as well as many community projects in her hometown of Binghamton NY. Peg Johnston edited and published the Pregnancy Options Workbook in 1998 to…
From “An Immigrant Goes to War: The Civil War Correspondence of Herman and Adeline Weiss” ed. Harlan B. Phillips, in History 4: A Meridien Periodical (New York: Word Publishing, 1961)
Herman Weiss Johnston, son of William F. and Julia Johnston, father of Robert Clark, William Fulton, and Margery Clark Johnston. Contents include: History of the NE Bronx (Eastchester), Herman and Adeline Weiss who corresponded during the Civil War, William F. and Julia Johnston, civic leaders, treatment of TB, the drive to extend the subway to…
