January 20, 2015 at 7 p.m. Kelly Adirondack Center The Kelly Adirondack Center, in coordination with the Schaffer Library, hosted a presentation to unveil interesting and unexpected findings in the Apperson papers held by the Adirondack Research Library. Photos and stories from his life were featured.
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Panel Discussion: The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Our Wilderness Future
September 30, 5:30 p.m., Old Chapel The Kelly Adirondack Center hosted a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 30, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. The event was held in Old Chapel, and was quite successful. The discussion, entitled, “The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Our Wilderness Future,” took an interdisciplinary […]
Art Exhibition: “Adirondack Aesthetic: Paintings of Lake George 1865-1875”
August 25 – October 4, 2014 Kelly Adirondack Center Visit the beautiful paintings on exhibit at the Kelly Adirondack Center. The current exhibition is on loan from Stu Cartwright ’81.
2014 Summer Research Fellow Jordan Pulling
Jordan is from Ballston Spa, NY and will be a senior at Union College this fall. She is an Environmental Science and French double major with a minor in Environmental Engineering. On campus, Jordan is involved in U-Sustain, the Green Fee Governance Committee, her Minerva house council, and the Crew team. Jordan was the fifth […]
2014 Summer Research Fellow Gabe Herrera
Gabe graduated from Skidmore College in May with a BA in Anthropology and minors in Environmental Studies and Spanish. He is looking to go into a field related to conservation, renewable energy, or environmental policy. Outside of his academic and professional interests, Gabe is an avid competitive cyclist, and obsessively follows American and English soccer […]
Adirondack Week 2014
Monday, May 5 The week began with an Adirondack Week Kick-Off Fair on the front lawn of Reamer Campus Center featuring a rock climbing wall, live music, entertainment, and refreshments. Monday evening, Jillmarie Murphy, professor of English and American Literature held a presentation at the Kelly Center titled “Analeptic Sublime: Land Attachment and Attention Restoration […]
Laura Johnston: “Land Tenure and Conservation in Adirondack State Park”
The United States is a nexus of watersheds. Five levels of complicated, webbed outlines divide and subdivide land on nested scales, the smallest of which is the Hydrological Unit Code (HUC) – the watershed. From 50 states we arrive at 2,264 watersheds, which presents an incongruous approach to mapping from our dominant one. This presents a […]