Great Backyard Bird Count 2024 with The Kelly Adirondack Center and Union’s Ornithology Club! This event is free and open to the public but space is limited so registration is required. Email Margie Amodeo at amodeom@union.edu. Sunday, February 18, 2024 10:00 Coffee and pastry at the Kelly Adirondack Center 10:30 Program in the Adirondack […]
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2023 Kelly Adirondack Center Fall Newsletter
We’ve been busy! Learn more about the diverse research we supported this summer and the ways you can use the resources of the Adirondack Research Library in the Fall 2023 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter!
2023 Summer Research Fellows Zoom Program
Zoom Program (link below) Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:00 p.m. Each summer, the Kelly Adirondack Center funds student summer fellowships focused on furthering our understanding of the complex relationships between nature and society. The goal of the Summer Research Fellows Program is to support students doing scholarly work under the guidance of faculty sponsors. By […]
Dalton-Loines Family Papers Exhibit
October 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024 The Quarterdeck The Dalton-Loines Family Papers Between 2019 and 2022 Sylvia Rogal Pope donated her collection of documents, photographs, and ephemera from the Dalton-Loines family to the Adirondack Research Library. In 2022, Phyllis Modley donated a guestbook filled with additional memories. The Dalton-Loines Family Papers consists mainly of […]
Flickinger Exhibit at Galway Public Library
Photography of Kay Flickinger Dockstader now on exhibit at the Galway Public Library. Twenty people attended the first meeting of the 46ers in 1948 electing Grace Hudowalski (#9) as president and Kay Flickinger(#41) as secretary. This exhibit lends a glimpse into the High Peaks of the 1940s and 50s. These photographs are taken from the […]
Inside the Green Lobby
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:30 p.m. Karp 105 This event is free and open to the public. Retired lobbyist Bernard Melewski, author of Inside The Green Lobby, and journalist Brad Edmondson, author of A Wild Idea, team up to tell a story about how politics made strange bedfellows in the Adirondack Park. Between […]
Minerva Jams Sessions
December 1, 15, and 22, 2023 from 12:00-2:30 at the Kelly Adirondack Center in the Adirondack Room. These will be a northeast style round-robin session with a mix of old-time, New England, Irish, and Canadian tunes along with traditional and contemporary songs, key changes at the whim of the person who calls the tune. […]
2022 Audubon Photography Awards Winners
Audubon Society of the Capital Region and Southern Adirondack Audubon are hosting a traveling exhibit featuring 2022 Audubon Photography Awards winners at the Kelly Adirondack Center. June 26- July 31, 2023 The Kelly Adirondack Center hours are Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ***The Kelly Adirondack Center will be closed […]
Blanket Birding
Sunday, May 7, 2023 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Kelly Adirondack Center Outdoor Amphitheater This event is free and open to the public No registration is required but this event is weather-dependant so please check back if rain is in the forecast. Please bring your own blanket or camp chair Coffee and donuts will be provided. […]
Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Clare’s Empire, a fantasia on the life and work of John Clare from The Hydroelectric Press, and The Light in the Film, The Names of Things Are Leaving, and For Appearances, all from the University of Tampa Press. His earlier books appeared […]