with Dave Gibson September 4, 2025 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. in the Adirondack Room at the Kelly Adirondack Center Books will be available for purchase at the event. A staunch advocate for the Adirondack Park, activist and writer Paul Schaefer deeply influenced conservation policy in New York State. His work and writing inspired countless […]
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Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks
with author Phil Terrie September 25, 2025 5:00 p.m. in the Adirondack Room at the Kelly Adirondack Center Books will be available for purchase at the event. Since 1894, the New York Constitution has protected wilderness in the State Forest Preserve, most of which is in the Adirondacks. Phil Terrie’s latest book examines closely the […]
Minerva Jams Sessions are back this summer
in the Adirondack Room at the Kelly Adirondack Center June 27 and July 11 through August 29, 2025 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. free and open to the public Stop in for a few songs or stay for the whole session! This will be northeast style round-robin session with a mix of old-time, New […]
Join us at the Schenectady Kids’ Art Festival
The Kelly Adirondack Center table will be helping children start nature journals at the Schenectady Kid’s Art Festival! Saturday, June 7 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Jay Street, Schenectady
Join us at the Union College Community Carnival!
We’ll be coloring sheets that share information on the New York State official fish, amphibian, and insect.
Join us at Pride Fest!
We’ll be making Pride bracelets Saturday, May 10 2:30p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pride Fest is hosted annually by Union Pride to celebrate and uplift Union’s LGBTQ+ community and its allies. Dozens of departments, organizations, clubs, and businesses, from both on and off campus, will be tabling. They will have resources, trivia, games, activities, and […]
Spring 2025 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter
The Spring 2025 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter is now online! Learn more about our upcoming exhibition, Time and Place West and East, opening May 1. The exhibition of photographs by Carol McCord and poems by Professor Emeritus Jim McCord will be up through September. Missed a Kelly Adirondack Center program? The Newsletter includes […]
Minerva Jams Session
Friday, March 28 | 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Kelly Adirondack Center free and open to the public Come for a few songs or stay for the whole session! This will be 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 […]
A Tree of 40 Fruit and The Open Orchard
with Sam VanAken Thursday, April 24, 2025 • 5:30 P.M. Old Chapel | Union College | Coffee and Dessert from 5:00 P.M. Sponsored by the Kelly Adirondack Center, UCALL, USustain, and Octopus’s Garden This event is free and open to the public. The Tree of 40 Fruit is a single tree that grows forty different […]
Plein Air Painting at Great Camp Sagamore: and So Much More
with Wes Sherman March 28, 2025 Talk at 4:00 p.m. at the Kelly Adirondack Center, 897 St. David’s Lane, Niskayuna Recording available below. The Center will be open from 3:00 p.m. for those who would like time to view the current exhibition. This event is free and open to the public. […]