Bread is not unique to the Adirondacks, but the traditions surrounding this food have played an important role in Adirondack...

The Adirondack Mountains have long been treasured for the healing properties of clean air, beautiful scenery, and sparkling...

Rita Poirier Chaisson was born in 1914 on Canada’s Gaspe Penninsula. In 1924, her father Paul Poirier, a lumberjack,...

In 1916, the New York Commissioner of Agriculture reported that Essex County is “by far the most broken and mountainous...

To My Old Cookstove Oh! My old kitchen cookstove, to time now surrendered,How well I remember the day you were new.As so...

In Rules for Recovery from Tuberculosis, published in Saranac Lake, New York, in 1915, Dr. Lawrason Brown stated that...

The Adirondack Museum Library owns more than 600 linear feet of manuscript material. Included in these vast holdings are...

Like many marriages, the connection of the Union Pacific Railroad to the Central Pacific Railroad was commemorated with golden...

“Clear and pleasant and not very cold” was March 1898 according to homesteader Lucelia Mills Clark. In addition...

Most visitors to the Adirondack Park are unaware that mining was once a major industry and employer in the region, or that...