Great Camps and the Rustic Tradition

The Kelly Adirondack Center and UCALL present   Steven Engelhart Executive Director of Adirondack Architectural Heritage   October 22, 2019 5:30 p.m. lecture, refreshments from 5:00 Reamer Auditorium This event is free and open to the public.   New York State’s Adirondack Park, a six-million-acre mixture of public and private lands, is the largest park […]

2019 Summer Research Fellows’ Presentations

at the Kelly Adirondack Center August 13, 2019 7:00 p.m.     Each summer, the Kelly Adirondack Center funds two summer fellowships. The goal of the program is to support students doing scholarly work on the Adirondacks under the guidance of a faculty sponsor. The range of inquiry supported is broad and ideally interdisciplinary. This […]

Falling for the Adirondacks: Autumn Photography with Manuel Palacios

With Manuel Palacios Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:00 p.m. Reamer Auditorium   Manny is a local freelance outdoor photographer. He has spent countless days and nights wandering around and basking in the beauty of the Adirondack State Park in New York. For him, landscape photography is not just a means for documenting moments, but rather […]

Defending a Changing Landscape: A History of Forest Rangers in New York State

Exhibit May 23, 2019 – September 20, 2019 These images are made available through the generosity of Lou Curth and Protect the Adirondacks. In many ways Forest Ranger history mirrors the history of conservation in New York State. Since the establishment of Fire Wardens in 1885, the evolution of priorities and circumstances for both public […]

Grassroots Activism and the American Wilderness

Grassroots Activism and the American Wilderness: Pioneers in the 20th Century Adirondack Park Conservation Movement   This exhibit catalog is the culmination of a generous multi-year grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The grant provided funds for the Schaffer Library at Union College to […]

Blacks in the Adirondacks with Author Sally Svenson

  Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Old Chapel, Union College Campus 5:30 Presentation, Refreshments from 5:00   When Sally Svenson mentioned to people during the several years that she was researching and writing about the history of blacks in the Adirondacks, the typical response was, “What blacks?” For, indeed, Adirondack inhabitants have been and still are […]

150th Anniversary of Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks

Exhibit Adirondack Adventures January 31- May 14, 2019 at the Kelly Adirondack Center The Center is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.   In 1869 William H. H. Murray published a book containing a series of articles on the merits of camping in the wilderness of the Adirondacks. His combination of […]

Harnessing Nature: Building the Great Sacandaga

with filmmakers Lauren Roberts and Jason Kemper   January 30, 2019 Film at 5:30 p.m. Refreshments from 5:00 p.m. at the Kelly Adirondack Center This event is free and open to the public.   Nestled in the southern foothills of the majestic Adirondack Mountains is the Great Sacandaga Lake, the largest man-made body of water […]