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SUMMARY:Bad Juliet\, by Giles Blunt
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program.  \nAt a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks\, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. \nRecently jilted by his fiancé\, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There\, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains\, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard\, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman\, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated ship Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom\, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. \nAs Paul reads her words\, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah’s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left\, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her. \nAbout The Speaker:\nGiles Blunt grew up in North Bay\, Ontario\, before studying English Literature at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels\, including the award-winning John Cardinal Mystery series\, Blunt has more recently turned to literary fiction with Bad Juliet. He lives in Toronto. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/bad-juliet-by-giles-blunt/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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SUMMARY:Calculated Risk\, by Jennifer Denny
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program.  \nNavigate by map and compass. Splint a broken bone. Start a fire in a rainstorm. No big deal for Samantha Wethersfield! She’s an Assistant Forest Ranger who knows the Adirondack High Peaks like the back of her hand. The people in Sam’s life are pressuring her to make tough choices about the future. All at once her work\, love-life\, and home address are suddenly uncertain. She goes on one last backcountry adventure before making any big decisions. Sam needs time to think\, but the wilderness unexpectedly gives her the biggest challenge of her life. As Sam uses all her skills and experience to stay alive\, she comes to terms with the choices she needs to make. If Sam makes it out of the woods\, she might just know what to do next! \nAbout The Speaker:\nJen Denny is a conservationist\, NYS Guide\, and Adirondack 46er. She grew up in West Seneca\, NY and was initially drawn to the Adirondack Mountains for school. Jen graduated from Paul Smith’s College in 2015 and went on to get a Master’s in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Unity College in 2023. She currently manages the Stewardship Program at the Adirondack Watershed Institute. Since 2014\, Jen has been involved with the High Peaks Summit Steward Program as an employee and then volunteer. Jen lives in Saranac Lake\, NY with her husband and son\, and loves to cross-country ski\, hike\, and kayak. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/calculated-risk-by-jennifer-denny/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T190000
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SUMMARY:First Adirondackers\, by Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program.  \nThe First Adirondackers reaches far beyond the familiar timelines of settlement to tell a deeper story of the Adirondacks – one that has been shaped by an Indigenous presence for more than 12\,000 years. Blending scientific insight with Indigenous knowledge and storytelling\, the book reveals how Native peoples lived with\, learned from\, and stewarded this landscape across countless generations. Through changing climates\, waterways\, and lifeways\, authors Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden illuminate a history that has too often been overlooked or simplified. The Adirondacks emerge not as an untouched wilderness\, but as a homeland rich with memory\, meaning\, and continuity. The First Adriondackers invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the region and the enduring relationship between people and place. \nClick here to buy the book from the ADKX Store! \nAbout The Speaker:\nCurt Stager is a scientist\, educator\, and author whose work brings the deep history of climate\, water\, and landscape vividly to life. A professor at Paul Smith’s College\, his writing and teaching has earned recognition statewide. He has spent decades translating complex environmental research into clear\, compelling stories for public audiences. \nDavid Kanietakeron Fadden is an Akwesasne Mohawk artist\, writer\, and cultural historian whose paintings\, illustrations\, and stories are rooted in Haudenosaunee knowledge and lived experience in the Adirondacks. Raised in a family of artists and storytellers\, his work serves as both creative expression and cultural preservation. Together\, they are the authors of The First Adirondackers\, a sweeping account of 12\,000 years of Indigenous presence that reshapes how we understand the region’s past. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/first-adirondackers-by-curt-stager-and-david-kanietakeron-fadden/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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SUMMARY:Heading Out\, by Terence Young
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program.  \nWhat is it that has drawn generations of Americans to pack up their families\, leave behind the comforts of home\, and head for the woods each year? In the final episode of In the Adirondack Library for 2025-26 season\, author Terence Young explores just that. In conversation with NCPR’s Mitch Teich\, Young will discuss his book Heading Out: A History of American Camping. Young’s book reflects on how places like the Adirondacks helped shape camping as a cherished seasonal ritual. From the rush of Murray’s fools in the late 19th Century\, to the trails carved out by determined backpackers\, to the modern campsites dotted across the Park\, Young explores the enduring appeal of “roughing it” and what it reveals about Americans’ longing for simplicity\, freedom\, and a temporary step away from everyday life. \nAbout The Speaker:\nTerence Young is a historical geographer with a long-standing interest in how Americans have experienced nature\, earned through years of study and time spent thinking deeply about landscapes\, travel\, and recreation. He earned his Ph.D. in geography at UCLA and later taught at California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona\, where his work explored parks\, tourism\, and the meanings people attach to outdoor places. His books include Building San Francisco’s Parks\, 1850–1930 and Heading Out: A History of American Camping\, which traces the roots of camping from early parklands and mountain regions to a national tradition shaped by movement\, modern life\, and the search for renewal. Whether writing about city parks or canvas tents\, Young brings a storyteller’s eye to the long relationship between people and the outdoors. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/heading-out-by-terence-young/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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SUMMARY:Anne LaBastille: A Biography of the Woodswoman\, by Penny Harr
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Program \nAward-winning wildlife ecologist and bestselling author Anne LaBastille was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Perhaps best known for her seminal wilderness book Woodswoman\, which recounts her years spent living in a remote Adirondacks cabin and which inspired countless women to shun societal dictates and pursue their passions\, LaBastille railed against bureaucracy and patriarchy to become a powerful figure in environmentalism. Anne LaBastille is the first ever biography of this powerful and polarizing woman who dedicated her life to preserving the natural world. \nThrough personal interviews and archival research\, Adirondack Experience interpreter and seventh-generation Adirondacker Penny Harr paints and in-depth portrait of LaBastille’s personal and rich inner life including and beyond her career achievements\, breathing life into a legend of wildlife conservation. \nAbout the Author:\nPenny Harr is a seventh-generation Adirondacker who grew up amongst the mountains and lakes of the region. She is an Exhibit Assistant at the Adirondack Experience. An avid reader\, Penny also enjoys kayaking\, hiking\, and exploring historic sites throughout the Northeast. Her deep love of the Adirondacks and commitment to preserving its wild character make her a kindred spirit with Anne LaBastille. She lives in the Adirondack Park\, where she raised her two children.
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/anne-labastille-a-biography-of-the-woodswoman-by-penny-harr/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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SUMMARY:Sketching the Adirondacks\, by Edward Pitts
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Program \nIn the summer of 1851\, long before the central Adirondacks became a vacation destination\, two young landscape painters crossed the region all the way from Lowville to Crown Point looking for wilderness scenes to sketch. Jervis McEntee and his friend Joseph Tubby would go on to become respected landscape painters. Guided by Asa Puffer\, a local woodsman\, they walked and paddled over 200 miles not including side trips. As they travelled\, they met every working Adirondack guide of those times as well as many early settlers\, hermits and a surprising number of other travelers. \nThis epic sketching trip has received little notice until now. Fortunately\, the artists both kept journals\, and McEntee’s handwritten journal has been preserved in the collection of the research library of the Adirondack Experience. The story of the sketching trip is based on McEntee’s journal as well as a host of other obscure original sources including Tubby’s journal\, newspaper articles\, letters and a formerly anonymous magazine article. \nBased on this research\, and using the tools of literary non-fiction\, Pitts has fashioned a series of thirty letters that the artists could have written. These letters allow the reader to become deeply familiar with the artists and their experience of the pristine Adirondack wilderness. Every letter is followed by an author’s note that explains the factual basis for the claims in the letters. The book also contains illustrations by McEntee and original maps tracing the route. \nAbout the Author:\nEdward Pitts is a retired attorney and former Social Security Administrative Law Judge who lives in Syracuse\, NY. He now spends his time researching\, writing and lecturing about Adirondack history. Syracuse University Press has published two of his Adirondack history books: Beaver River Country: an Adirondack History (2022) and Sketching the Adirondacks; Letters from the Wilderness (2025). His articles on Adirondack history have appeared in Adirondack Life\, Adirondac\, LOCALadk\, and online on Adirondack Almanack and the New York Almanack. He also maintains a blog of short illustrated articles titled Annals of the Beaver River. He is a member of the Rap-Shaw Club on Stillwater Reservoir in the west-central Adirondacks where he was president of the board of directors from 2011 until 2016. Before becoming a lawyer\, he taught philosophy courses at St. Bonaventure University and at the Pennsylvania State University.
URL:https://www.theadkx.org/event/sketching-the-adirondacks-by-edward-pitts/
CATEGORIES:In the Adirondack Library
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