Contesting Authentic Practice and Ethical Authority in Adventure Tourism with Elizabeth S. Vidon, PhD Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Studies Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. in Old Chapel Refreshments from 5:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Vidon is a Cultural Geographer whose research seeks […]
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Environmental Justice & Racism in the Food System
Leah Penniman January 30, 2018, 12:45- 1:45 Reamer Auditorium This event is sponsored by the Kelly Adirondack Center, the Multicultural Affairs Office, and the Sustainability Office. It is free and open to the public!
Union receives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to highlight the Adirondacks
NOVEMBER 16, 2017 Union has been awarded a $250,000 presidential leadership grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen its Adirondack Studies initiative. The three-year grant will develop a new Adirondack mini-term, which will combine classroom work with experiential learning though guided trips to local communities, historic sites and places that will educate students […]
Quickstep Music and Dance with John Kirk and Trish Miller
with John Kirk and Trish Miller Thursday, November 16, 2017, 5:30 p.m. Refreshments from 5:00 p.m. Reamer Auditorium, Union College Free and Open to the Public Traditional and original Adirondack tunes and witty songs are presented with brilliant arrangements using fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and warm clear vocals. Since 1988, John Kirk and […]
Through Native Eyes: Adirondack History, Stories, and Music
October 19, 2017 at 5:30 Reamer Auditorium This program mixes traditional Native American history and stories of the Northeast and Adirondack Region with drum songs and flute music. Joseph Bruchac is a writer and traditional storyteller who lives in the Adirondack Mountains Region of Northern New York in the house he was raised in […]
“Pioneering Peak-bagger Bob Marshall” with Phil Brown
When Bob and George Marshall began their quest to become the first to conquer New York’s highest peaks with Herb Clark almost a century ago, they never could have imagined that in the next 100 years over 10,000 hikers would literally follow in their footsteps. Join us as Phil Brown shares his thoughts on the […]
Parts but Little Known
On Exhibit fall 2017 through spring 2018 At the Kelly Adirondack Center The Adirondack region is no longer uninhabited, as The London Magazine once claimed, but anyone who has hiked there knows that parts are still impassable. The maps in this exhibit graphically demonstrated the increase in knowledge about the region and what was […]
“Fashionable Twaddle” – William H.H. Murray, the Adirondacks, and America’s First Camping Controversy
Tuesday, August 8 at 5 p.m. | Kelly Adirondack Center In April 1869, William H.H. Murray published his most famous book: Adventures in the Wilderness; Or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks. The beginning of recreational camping in America, it was the first book to tell Americans that camping was a form of leisure where one could […]
Winter to Spring: Adirondack Paintings by Sandra Hildreth
On display from January 25 to April 28, 2017 Gallery Talk at 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2017 Winter to Spring, bitter cold to mud…. Most people, especially in the Adirondacks, think of winter and spring as less than enjoyable seasons. They’re often cold, dreary, damp, and unpleasant – months to endure before summer […]
Private Property or Public Access?
March 16, 2017 | 5:30 pm | Old Chapel With John Caffry In the mid-nineteenth century, the rivers of the state were declared public highways to allow their use for transportation of logs to market, regardless of whether they ran over public or private land. This principle was “forgotten” beginning late in the century. In […]