October 30, 2021 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Adirondack Mini-term Students Group Projects This year’s Adirondack Mini-term included nine students, and eight faculty/staff. Students learned about the geology of the region from Holli Frey (Geology), who also grew up in the northern […]
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2021 Summer Research Fellows Presentations
Photograph by Prof. Lorraine Cox Zoom Webinar October 5, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Each year the Kelly Adirondack Center sponsors the work of Summer Research Fellows as they examine diverse topics that make the Adirondacks unique. The students interview experts in their fields, work in the Adirondack Research Library using books and collections to examine […]
Prisons, Environment, and Race in the Adirondack Park
with Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. October 14, 2021 at 5:30 This Zoom program is free and open to the public. Since the 1840s, the Adirondack environment has proven a pivotal factor in the planning, construction, and operation of prisons in the North Country. Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. will analyze this phenomenon with a special focus on the […]
Adirondack Conservation – Paul Schaefer and Links in a Long, Historic Chain
with David Gibson September 30, 2021 (Rain Date October 7, 2021) 5:00 p.m. Kelly Adirondack Center Amphitheater 897 St. David’s Lane Niskayuna This event is free and open to the public. As the years go by, let us never forget that Paul Schaefer and his allies during the 20th century saved the Forest Preserve and the […]
A Wild Idea: How The Environmental Movement Tamed The Adirondacks
with Brad Edmondson Thursday October 21, 2021 at 5:30 Reamer Auditorium, Union College Campus Masks are currently mandatory in all Union College buildings. (Reamer Campus Center is #45 on this Union College Map) This event is free and open to the public. Brad Edmondson’s new book is a lively account of how activists, politicians, and […]
The Forest Preserve, Snowmobile Trails, and the NY Constitution
with Adirondack historian, Phil Terrie and Protect the Adirondacks Executive Director, Peter Bauer Thursday, May 27, 2021 6:00 p.m. In a resounding victory for wilderness, the New York Court of Appeals recently issued a historic decision on the construction of snowmobile trails in the Forest Preserve. Established by the New York legislature in 1885 […]
Spring 2021 Newsletter
The Kelly Adirondack Center Spring 2021 newsletter shares information on current programming (all available recorded on our site) as well as our current online exhibit and details on the Jeanne Robert Foster collections. It can be viewed here:
Conversations Around Social Justice in the Adirondacks
A Zoom Webinar Series The Lived Experience April 15, 5:30 P.M. Dr. Alice Green and Brenda Valentine Moderated by Prof. Becky Cortez Half a century of Adirondack lived experience: two Park residents reflect and share about systemic racism and structural oppression growing up and living in the Park, from the 1950s to today. Dr. Alice […]
Parts But Little Known
Parts But Little Known: Maps of the Adirondacks from 1556 The maps in this exhibit graphically showed the increase in knowledge about the region and what was important to European military strategists, entrepreneurs, and tourists over the last 450 years. The earliest maps, which date from 1556 to 1794, are from a private collection. They […]
The Winter Photography of John S. Apperson
These images are made available through the generosity of the Apperson family, Apperson’s Associates, and Protect the Adirondacks. The people and policies of New York State were just beginning to define what an Adirondack Park would look like in the early 20th century. This exhibit of John S. Apperson’s winter photography highlighted his vision of […]