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 […]
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“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 […]
Modern Threats to Age-Old Waterways
April 13, 2017 | 5:30 pm | Old Chapel | Dan Kelting, Executive Director of the Adirondack Watershed Institute Although the Adirondack Park has been likened to an island and thus somehow separate and insulated, today it is under threats from outside that seem inexorable. In the late twentieth century it was acidic precipitation falling from the skies, […]
The Adirondacks: Refuge in a Warming World?
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 […]
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 […]