{"id":17418,"date":"2025-10-28T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theadkx.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=17418"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:11:37","slug":"greetings-from-the-great-camps-the-history-of-the-adirondack-vacation","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.theadkx.org\/fr\/event\/greetings-from-the-great-camps-the-history-of-the-adirondack-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Salutations des grands camps : L'histoire des vacances dans les Adirondacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Il s'agit d'un programme virtuel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1850 the Adirondack region remained, literally, a blank spot on the map\u2014unsurveyed,\u00a0uncharted, and largely unorganized. Most white Americans saw the Adirondacks as a place so\u00a0desolate that\u2014to quote an early document, &#8220;by reason of Mountains, Swampes (sic), and\u00a0Drowned Lands is impassible and uninhabited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet by 1900 the Adirondacks hosted elaborate summer estates for the wealthiest families in\u00a0America\u2014including Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Carnegies, Whitneys, and Morgans. Theodore\u00a0Roosevelt actually inherited the Presidency while on a midnight buckboard ride through the heart\u00a0of the park. For more than a century since, the Adirondacks have remained a famous destination\u00a0drawing magnates, celebrities, and everyday Americans. Hikers, hunters, canoe campers, power\u00a0oaters, elites, and environmentalists (and many combinations thereof) who all look forward to their\u00a0visits and vacations in \u201cthe ADK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How did this transition occur? Why did it occur? What forces led to the development of the\u00a0region during the late 19th Century, and how does Adirondack history interact with American\u00a0history more broadly? And just what was a &#8220;Great Camp,&#8221; anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Join American Historian and Year-Round Adirondacker Connor Williams for &#8220;Greetings from the Great Camps: The History of the Adirondack Vacation.&#8221;\u00a0Williams, 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The recording of this program will be available to registered attendees only. If you are unable to join the live program or would like to watch it again, instructions for accessing the recording will be provided on Thursday.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connor Williams<\/strong> is a scholar, teacher, and advocate of American and African American history, Connor Williams shares the stories of our past to help shape the societies of our future. A native New Yorker and aspiring maritime mountaineer, Connor currently lives with his family along Lake Champlain in the Adirondack Park. 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