Chuck Brumley, author and licensed guide, will speak on “Adirondack Guides from the Hudson's Headwaters: A Short Season, Hard Work, Low Pay” on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
His talk is the fourth in the six-part seminar series, “The Hudson River: From the Wilderness to the Sea,” sponsored by Environmental Studies and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks.
Brumley, of Saranac Lake, is a licensed guide and operator of Birchbark Tours, a guiding service. He is also an instructor of Adirondack history at North Country Community College, and has written for regional publications such as Adirondack Life, Barkeater, and The Franklin Count Historical Review. He is author of the book, Guides of the Adirondacks: A History. With his wife, Karen Loffler, he performs in the folk music duo Wood-Heat.
Remaining lectures in the series, on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial, are:
- Feb. 28 – “The Hudson River School Painters” with Robert T. McLean, art gallery proprietor; and
- Mar. 7 – “Folk Music Along the Hudson” with George Ward, singer and folk historian.