Tag: winter

Logger Evan Nahor checking his equipment

Evan Nahor poses with large logging equipment. Circa 2020. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Evan Nahor. Read more about Nahor’s logging career here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43160/20210224/north-country-at-work-an-adirondack-logger-keeps-working-in-the-woods

Logging with a Model T in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area in Long Lake

Logging with a Model T in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area in Long Lake

Two men in the process of logging (using a Model T as a power source) in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area. Note from donor Patricia Quinn: “From my Great Grandfather Earnest Halsey Johnson Family Albums”. Circa 1910-1920. On the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County. Donated by […]

Mohawk Raising Gang on the Goldman Sachs Tower

Mohawk Raising Gang on the Goldman Sachs Tower

Ironworkers Darryl Lazore, Eugene Tarbell, Jerry Jackson, Freddy Mitchell, who were all part of a “raising gang”, a group that worked together to build the Goldman Sachs Tower. Winter 2001. Jersey City, New Jersey. Courtesy of Darryl Lazore.

A snowbound trolley running from Redwood to Alexandria Bay

A snowbound trolley running from Redwood to Alexandria Bay

The trolley that ran passengers from Redwood, where there was a train station that went to NYC, to Alexandria Bay. It looks as though workers are digging the snowbound trolley out of the snow. 1902- 1916. Between Redwood and Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.

Trapper Roy Johnson with pelts in Brier Hill

Trapper Roy Johnson with animal pelts in Brier Hill

Roy C. Johnson, who was known as the “preacher-trapper” because those were his two occupations, displaying pelts he trapped. Circa 1960. Hamlet of Brier Hill in Morristown, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.

Rescue on Algonquin Peak

Rescue on Algonquin Peak

Scene from the rescue of Blake Alois and Madison Popolizio on Algonquin Peak. December 2013. North Elba, NY. Photo courtesy of NY DEC.