North Country At Work

A group of people sits on the steps inside Singer Castle on Dark Island, including caretaker Gerald Heath (far left) and a dog. Circa 1950s. Chippewa Bay, NY. Photo courtesy of Doug Heath.

Roy C. Johnson, who worked as both a preacher and a trapper, next to a wall of pelts, including muskrat, fox, mink, and raccoon. Circa 1978. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson.

The staff of DiOrio’s supermarket in front of the produce cooler. Owner Bob DiOrio is on the far left. Old Forge, NY. Photo courtesy of DiOrio’s supermarket. To learn about how grocers across the North Country adapted during the pandemic, check out this North Country at Work story.

The North Country School’s barn manager Erica Burns (left) talks with people in the barn after the school’s 10 ewes gave birth. Lake Placid, NY. February 18, 2021. Photo courtesy of the North Country School. Burns has been the barn manager at the North Country School for over three years. Check out her North Country […]

The North Country School’s Barn Manager Erica Burns holds a lamb. Lake Placid, NY. March 2021. Photo by Andy Flynn. Burns has been the barn manager at the North Country School for over three years. Check out her North Country at Work story here.

Lena Bombard, manager of the Tri-Lakes Humane Society animal shelter, with Jessie the dog inside the shelter. February 2019. Saranac Lake, NY. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. Read and listen to her full story here. 

Wendy Hall feeds a young, sick robin at the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehab Center in Wilmington.  Hall and her husband, Steve, opened the center in 2000. August 2019. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. You can read and listen to Wendy’s full story (and see more photos of the center) in the full North Country at Work story.

A large wall of muskrat pelts trapped by Roy Johnson. Johnson was known as the “preacher-trapper” because he worked as both. Circa 1979. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson. Listen to Dave Johnson on his father’s trapping in the audio clip. 

Cars parked outside of the Neverett farm for a livestock auction run by the H.L. Neverett & Sons Livestock Commission. They led auctions every Tuesday in Ellenburg Depot and every Thursday in Chazy. 1946. Chazy, NY. Photo courtesy of Kim Neverett Howley.

A livestock auction at the Neverett farm. The man holding the cane behind the cows is Harry Neverett, the founder of H.L. Neverett & Sons Livestock Commission. To the right of him in the jumpsuit is his eldest son, Robert Neverett. In the top right in the booth is the auctioneer, auctioning off cattle, and one […]