April 17, 2017 | 5:30 pm | Nott Memorial Bill McKibben, author, educator, and environmentalist In the era of climate change, chief threats to Adirondack communities – human and wild – are caused by forces outside the region. McKibben will address the Adirondacks and the region’s potential as a place of symbiosis. Bill McKibben is an author and […]
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Lessons from Sweetgrass: Indigenous Stewardship of Adirondack Plants
Monday, January 16, 2017 • 5:30 TO 6:30 PM Nott Memorial • Free and open to the public A lecture by Robin Wall Kimmerer This talk introduces the wealth of culturally significant plants of the Adirondack region, from forest to wetlands. Kimmerer will explore the philosophy and practices of indigenous stewardship, which creates and maintains biodiversity. […]
Dam that River!
Thursday, November 10, 2016 • 5:30 TO 6:30 PM • Old Chapel • Free and open to the public A discussion with Mary Jane Watson and David Gibson That’s not an expletive, it’s a structure that has meant habitat destruction, good jobs, conservation activism, and electricity. Two rivers in the Adirondacks present case studies of […]
Rivers as Commercial Highways: The Age of River Drives
Thursday, October 13, 2016 • 5:30 TO 6:30 PM Old Chapel • Free and open to the public An illustrated lecture with Richard Nason Nason has always been interested in history. In the 1970s, he came upon a collection of 16 mm films of Finch, Pruyn’s milling operations and has given illustrated lectures since. He […]
Sustainably Managing Adirondack Woodlands
Thursday, September 29, 2016 • 5:30 TO 6:30 PM Reamer Auditorium • Free and open to the public The Adirondack region is touted as a great “wilderness,” but it is also home to over 130,000 people. Even much of the uninhabited, state-owned land has been shaped by human activity through logging, mining, tourism, reconstruction, and reforestation. […]
Meet the 2016 Summer Research Fellows
Women writers and the wilderness: Student research projects to explore Adirondack connection The writer Joyce Carol Oates has frequently set many of her short stories and novels in the Adirondacks. Born in the upstate New York farming community of Lockport, Oates is intimately familiar with the landscape of her childhood. Sydney Paluch ’17 is spending […]
Reception and Presentation on Impact Investing
Thursday, May 26, 2016 5-8 pm Kelly Adirondack Center 897 St. David’s Lane A reception and presentation at the Kelly Adirondack Center. The reception will begin at 5:00 pm, a brief presentation on Impact Investing will take place from 6:00 to 6:45 pm, and the reception will continue again until 8:00 pm. It’s expected to […]
The Jefferson Project: An Update
April 21 | 5:30 p.m. | Nott Memorial The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and The FUND for Lake George that studies the past, present, and potential future states of Lake George. Jefferson Project findings will feed back into improved decision and policy making in an effort to preserve this incredible resource. This […]
2016 Adirondack Week
Adirondack Week 2016 May 8-13 Special events include: A talk on the “Value of Wilderness” with Sierra Club President Aaron Mair Two exhibition openings and receptions: Grassroots Activism and the American Wilderness: Pioneers in the 20th Century Adirondack Park Conservation Movement The Kelly Adirondack Center: From Family Home to Academic Institution A presentation by social entrepreneur […]
These Things are Gifts: Baskets from the Adirondack Woods
with Jill Breit Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. Reamer Auditorium, Union College Folklorist and Executive Director of Traditional Arts in Upstate New York Ash basketry in the Adirondacks originated with the region’s Native Americans and was adopted by white settlers who worked in the woods. Folklorist Jill Breit will describe the cultural […]