Saturday, October 19, 2019 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. The Kelly Adirondack Center will be hosting an Open House on October 19 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Students from this summer’s Adirondack Mini-term course “A Peopled Wilderness” will share their experiences and […]
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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 […]
ReUnion Weekend Open House
Saturday, May 18, 2019 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. free and open to the public Now on exhibit 150th Anniversary of Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks
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 […]
Herpetofauna of the Adirondacks
The Kelly Adirondack Center and UCALL present: Alvin Breisch NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Fish and Wildlife (retired) April 11, 2019 in Reamer Auditorium on the Union College Campus lecture at 5:30 p.m. refreshments from 5:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Forty species […]
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 […]
Hell and High Water: New York’s Response to the Challenge of Climate Change
Mark Lowery New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Policy Analyst February 6, 2019 1:00 p.m. Reamer Auditorium on the Union College Campus This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or registration necessary. Lunch will be served. The fall of 2018 brought the release of three important climate change reports: […]