Editing Ballston Spa, New York (section)

===Movies, Music and Books===
Portions of the novel ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' were written by [[James Fenimore Cooper]] in the present day [[Brookside Museum]] and inspired by the local landscape.

Buster Red, a Depression era [[Folk music|folk]] singer, wrote in his song "When I Go Out" details about his trip through [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New York (U.S. state)|New York]]. According to the song it was in Ballston Spa that he was ultimately found out for some crime or deception, before moving on to [[Saratoga, New York|Saratoga]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/jimmie-rodgers-treasures-untold/Buster+Red+-+When+I+Go+Out.mp3 | title=American Folk Song Collection }}</ref>

The village was the model for the village of North Bath, NY, the setting for the 1993 best-selling novel and 1994 movie, ''[[Nobody's Fool (1994 film)|Nobody's Fool]]''.  The book's author, [[Richard Russo]], is a native of nearby [[Gloversville]]. It was also the location of the fictional "Elspeth Hatch" murder trial defended by [[Clarence Darrow]] set in 1897 in the book titled ''[[The Angel of Darkness]]'' by author [[Caleb Carr]].

Several scenes in [[Sydney Pollack]]'s 1973 film ''[[The Way We Were]]'' were filmed on Ballston Spa's Front Street. Scenes from ''[[The Horse Whisperer (film)|The Horse Whisperer]]'' (1998) were also filmed in the village.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119314/locations|title = The Horse Whisperer (1998) - IMDb|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>

Since 2008 Ballston Spa has been home to the ''Ballston Spa Film Festival'' of short films from around the globe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ballston Spa Film Festival|url=http://bspafilm.org/|access-date=August 29, 2013}}</ref>

Ballston Spa was also mentioned in the 1963 novel [[The Tulip Tree]] by Howard Rigsby.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rigsby |first1=Howard |title=The Tulip Tree |date=1963 |publisher=Doubleday and Company |location=Garden City, New York |page=128 |edition=Book Club}}</ref>