This is a virtual program.  In 1850 the Adirondack region remained, literally, a blank spot on the map—unsurveyed, uncharted, and largely unorganized. Most white Americans saw the Adirondacks as a place so desolate that—to quote an early document, "by reason of Mountains, Swampes (sic), and Drowned Lands is impassible and uninhabited." Yet by 1900 the Adirondacks hosted elaborate […]

This is a hybrid program.  IN-PERSON at the Albany Public Library (Washington Ave. Branch) or VIRTUALLY on Zoom. To get your required Zoom link, please click "Get Tickets" and register now. In preparation for a landmark exhibition on the Black Experience in the Adirondacks, Albany Public Library and the Adirondack Experience will host speaker Adam […]

This is a virtual program.  How might we account for the creative outpouring that marked Georgia O’Keeffe’s years at Lake George, an interval that stands among the most prolific of her seven-decade career? A survey of her work from this period reveals an astonishing abundance: roughly two hundred paintings on canvas and paper, accompanied by […]

This is a virtual program.  Teddy Roosevelt biographer Paul Grondahl will discuss the dramatic hours when Roosevelt climbed Mount Marcy, learned that President William McKinley had died of an assassin's wounds, a daring midnight wagon ride to the North Creek train station, and his swearing-in as the 26th President of the United States in Buffalo […]