This is a virtual program. Since 1912, when a young man named George Gray landed an open-cockpit biplane on a farmer's field, aviation has played an important role in communities located throughout the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. Through a range of historic images and postcards, Aurora Pfaff tells the story of pilots who linked communities […]

This is a virtual program. “Outsider: Stories of Growing Up Black in the Adirondacks” details Alice Paden Green’s experiences as her family grappled with poverty, race and acceptance in the mid-20th century. This memoir, prompted by a recent gathering of Blacks and whites in the Adirondacks for a discussion on race relations, explores perceptions of […]

This is a virtual program. The Adirondack Park is filled with a lore unlike anywhere else in the world. Maybe it’s the beauty that surrounds the Park thanks to the thousands of mountains, lakes, and rivers within. Maybe it’s the history of woodsmen struggling to survive in a place that’s been aptly nicknamed, “dismal wilderness.” […]

This is a virtual program. Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half […]

This is a virtual program. The twenty-first volume in the series, The Most Marvelous Moose Call Contest, set in Indian Lake, NY, is scheduled for release this September 2024.To date, more than 180,000 copies of the series have been sold. What began as a fun family writing project has evolved into a small publishing company. […]

This is a virtual program. New York State’s famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed maps and photos, Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates it all with the first clear account of the original surveyor who explored and […]

This is a virtual program. Corinth, New York, once home to International Paper’s historic Hudson River Mill, forms the backdrop for this thoughtful and often amusing memoir set in the 1960s. Centered on the experiences of a hometown boy who worked at the mill in the summer of 1969 before leaving for college, The Beater […]

This is a virtual program.  Discover how Green Goat's high-quality cartography products support invasive species research, and enhance outdoor recreation and education. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the intersection of mapping, nature, and community. Ezra is excited to share how Green Goat Maps came to be what it is today. He'll cover how […]

This is a virtual program.  Ever since he began hiking the mountains of the Adirondacks, John Sasso has been intrigued with the artifacts he would stumble upon, such as iron bolts from old land surveys, remnants of long-gone logging camps, mysterious woods roads, and stone foundations. The questions those finds provoked: 'What was here?' 'What […]

This is a virtual program.  This collection of poems is based on Lake Placid, New York’s most well-known ghost story. In 1933, the Lady in the Lake, whose real name was Mabel Smith Douglass, took a row boat across Lake Placid and never returned. Thirty years later, almost to the day, local divers discovered her […]

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 […]

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 […]