Wild Forest Lands, by Phil Terrie
2025-10-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
This is a virtual program.
Acclaimed historian and author Phil Terrie, has spent more than 50 years exploring the meaning of wilderness in the Adirondacks—both in archives and in the woods. Terrie will discuss his newest book, Wild Forest Lands, a blend of memoir, New York history, and meditation that revisits the region’s literature and history while reflecting on how his own views have evolved. Rich with detail, his work grapples with the enduring power of the Adirondacks and what it truly means to preserve something wild.
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Songs of the Woods: Adirondack Logger Music with Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle
2025-10-12 11:30 - 14:00
Step back into the 1800s with award-winning duo Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle as they bring the music of Adirondack lumber camps to life! With lively tunes on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and more, they’ll share songs once sung by loggers after long days of hard work in the woods. Through spirited music and storytelling, families will discover the traditions, humor, and history of life in the logging camps. Fun, educational, and toe-tapping entertainment for all ages!
First set: 11:30 AM, Second set: 1:00 PM
Included with museum admission!

Murder at the Museum
2025-10-25 18:00 - 21:30
Sold Out!
On a brisk October evening in 1957, the Adirondack Museum’s first season ends—not with a fond farewell, but with foul play. As the lights dim and the doors close, an eccentric mix of museum staff and curious locals gather for one last night … only to be swept into a chilling mystery. Who committed the crime? And will they strike again?
Join us for Murder at the Museum, an immersive dinner theater experience performed by the Hemlock Players—where the only thing sharper than the wit is the murder weapon.
Enjoy a delicious three-course dinner before you unravel the clues and interact with suspects.
Spots are limited—reserve your place at the table before it’s too late.
Recommended for ages 13+

Adirondack Solitude: Peace and Stillness in the Adirondack Wilderness, by Russ Hartung
2025-11-03 19:00 - 20:00
This is a virtual program.
Solitude is hard to find these days, and harder still to capture in an image. But that’s just what award-winning photographer Russ Hartung does in his photographs of the majestic peaks and intimate views of the Adirondack wilderness. Adirondack Solitude explores the feeling of being on top of a mountain before sunrise and watching the light change over landscapes of unbroken wilderness; the serenity of drifting across a misty lake in a kayak and hearing a loon’s echoing call in the distance; the chorus of enveloping rain from a sudden thunderstorm while on the trail, and the answering symphony of peepers along the shore heard from the warmth of a tent in the evening. And it’s the vicarious feeling Hartung shares when he sees someone paddling slowly across a shrouded lake in the fog or a lone figure staring off towards the horizon from atop a rocky outcrop at the end of a hard climb. Whether it’s a wide-open view at the top of a High Peak or the miniature world brimming over in a hidden rock pool, both the towering and the tiny inspire this sort of awe-inspiring connectedness.
About The Speaker:
Russ Hartung is a physician and photographer based in the Adirondack Mountain region of New York State. His passion for photography began in childhood with his first Kodak Brownie camera, and has grown steadily over the years. In recent years, he has pursued photography more seriously, participating in numerous contests and juried exhibitions. His work primarily focuses on nature and landscape photography, capturing the beauty and serenity of the Adirondacks and beyond. He has also enjoyed exploring sports photography, especially while documenting his daughter’s track career at the Division I collegiate level and in professional competition.

Holiday Shopping at the ADKX!
2025-11-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-05 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-06 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-19 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-20 10:00 - 16:00
Shop the ADKX Store for Everyone on Your List!
The ADKX Store will be open Fridays and Saturdays from November 28 through December 20, 10 AM to 4 PM!
Looking to bring some Adirondack charm into your holiday celebrations? Stuff your stockings (or packbaskets) with holiday gifts from the ADKX Store!
Can’t make it to the store? Shop online anytime at www.theADKXStore.com

The Nature of the Place: On the Flora and Fauna of the Adirondacks, by Edward Kanze
2025-12-01 19:00 - 20:00
This is a virtual program.
The Nature of the Place is storied Adirondack nature writer Edward Kanze’s invitation to slow down, smell the roses, and get to know fellow creatures with more longstanding claims to this landscape than we have. Theirs is the real internet, a web of life that weaves together an almost infinite number of threads into a fabric that’s a wonder to behold and something close to a miracle in a largely hostile universe.
In these dazzling pages, readers meet the big charismatic animals of the Adirondacks, the black bear and the moose. We encounter little creatures, too, all of which lead fascinating lives while nearly unseen: tiny fish that live in exquisite mountain streams; the infuriating and almost invisible biting insects called no-see-ums; centipedes; millipedes; and earthworms. Discover an orchid that pays a steep price for its rough treatment of bumblebees; plants so desperate for nitrogen they’ve taken to catching animals and eating them; poison-ivy and the reasons why we might want to exchange our dislike of it for love; and a common wildflower that goes through serial sex changes. Loons, owls, falcons, eagles, and songbirds pour out effusions of apparent ecstasy here, along with much about bobcats, foxes, snowshoe hares, beavers, and flying squirrels. Snakes, frogs, salamanders, and big predatory fish make appearances also, as well as fungi that produce light in the dark, and bacteria that manipulate the atmosphere to their own advantage, even causing rain and snow to fall.
The Nature of the Place is Kanze’s love letter to his home, the Adirondacks. Gathering materials from his decades-long column at the Adirondack Explorer and elsewhere, extensively revised and rewritten for this book, Kanze’s singular meditations on the flora and fauna of his home resonate far beyond his own beautiful, beloved, biologically vibrant neck of the woods.
About The Speaker:
Edward Kanze is an author, naturalist, guide, and photographer from the Adirondack Mountains. He wrote regular columns for Adirondack Explorer and Bird Watcher’s Digest, and his work has also appeared in Adirondack Life, Audubon, The Conservationist, and many others. Kanze has been called the Adirondack “guide nonpareil” by Forbes Life magazine and was named Birder of the Year in 2017 by Bird Watcher’s Digest Magazine.

John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape, by Sandra Weber
2026-01-05 19:00 - 20:00
This is a virtual program.
With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story of sublime scenery and human rights concentrates on John’s relationships with his family and black neighbors, which brings forth the essence of the man: his inner self, moral fiber, and principles. Weber reveals a vital piece of the John Brown story. It creates a conduit through which to reconcile the poor pioneer farmer, family patriarch, preacher, and devoted friend of blacks with John Brown’s public persona.
About The Speaker:
Sandra Weber is the author of numerous magazine articles and several books, including The Woman Suffrage Statue and Adirondack Roots: Stories of Hiking, History and Women. She lives in a log cabin in the Adirondacks, about twenty-five miles from the John Brown Farm.

Greetings from the Great Camps: The History of the Adirondack Vacation
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:00
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 summer estates for the wealthiest families in America—including Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Carnegies, Whitneys, and Morgans. Theodore Roosevelt actually inherited the Presidency while on a midnight buckboard ride through the heart of the park. For more than a century since, the Adirondacks have remained a famous destination drawing magnates, celebrities, and everyday Americans. Hikers, hunters, canoe campers, power oaters, elites, and environmentalists (and many combinations thereof) who all look forward to their visits and vacations in “the ADK.”
How did this transition occur? Why did it occur? What forces led to the development of the region during the late 19th Century, and how does Adirondack history interact with American history more broadly? And just what was a “Great Camp,” anyway?
Join American Historian and Year-Round Adirondacker Connor Williams for “Greetings from the Great Camps: The History of the Adirondack Vacation.” Williams, who serves as Lead Historian at Great Camp Sagamore and teaches at Middlebury College, will discuss the forces, movements, moments and people that led to the nexus of wilderness, exertion, rejuvenation, and comfort that still all define the Adirondack region today.
