North Country At Work

City Council meeting. Standing on far right is R.P. McDonald. Circa 1940s or 50s. Ogdensburg, NY.

Meeting in the production studio at North Country Public Radio. Left to right: reporter Brian Mann, unknown, Sandy Demarest, Connie Meng, Bill Haenel. Around 2001. Canton, NY. Donated by North Country Public Radio.

Fred Becker (driver) with his team of horses and buggy, meeting two female guests at the Fair View Station, which was a flag stop on the Raquette Lake River. Circa 1890-1900. Town of Webb, NY.

The 6th Lake Dam. Circa 1909. Inlet, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.

Meeting in the production studio at North Country Public Radio. People from left: Martha Foley, David Summerstein, unknown, Ellen Rocco, Bob Sauter, Joel Hurd, Jodi Tosti, Kelly Trombley, and Brian Mann. Canton, NY. Donated by North Country Public Radio.

Four children work on clearing grounds around the meeting house museum, part of the restoration work around the building. Circa 1994-1995. East De Kalb, NY. Photograph by Virginia Fisher.

Community members work to clear grounds around meeting house museum, part of the restoration work around the building, East De Kalb, NY. Circa 1994-1995. Photograph by Virginia Fisher.

Stewart Cuthbert on top of the “sheep chute,” an apparatus used to move and control sheep during de-worming and treating their feet for hoof rot. Ann Cuthbert in the foreground. 1958. Hammond, NY.

Two men on top of the logs loaded on a bobsled, on the ice at the north end of Long Lake. One of the men is Asa Hall. Circa 1900. Long Lake, NY.

Herbert and Donald Thompson pose on top of the Thompson farm’s last load of hay. 1936. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.