Anne de la Chapelle is the current director of the Plattsburgh Public Library. She’s worked in a number of different libraries in the North Country, including the Westport Library and the library of Clinton Community College. She became director of the PPL in 2013. Here she talks about what a library’s function is, her love […]
Farmhouse Pantry opened in Saranac on Labor Day of 2015. It’s part farm-to-table, organic café; part coffee shop; and part fresh-off-the-farm grocery store. The folks behind it are Josh and Sarah Vaillancourt, a couple in their thirties who moved to Saranac to start a small farm, and ended up with the farm and a restaurant. […]
Henry Morlock taught psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1965 until his retirement in 1998. He came to SUNY Plattsburgh from a stint studying sleep for the military, right when NYS was rapidly expanding the state school system. He trained rats, developed high school psychology curriculum, and helped develop performance assessments for the university, teaching Psych […]
Heidi Fortsch’s yarn business, Brown Dog Fiber Arts Studio, is her passion. In 2018, she turned about 500 pounds of raw fiber into about 350 pounds of yarn, all from her 600 square foot apartment in Chazy. It all started back in 2012, when Heidi, a knitter of some years, became dissatisfied with the yarn […]
Kim and Dennis Manion have owned Maui North, a ski, bike, and board shop in downtown Plattsburgh, since October of 2013. They’re avid outdoorspeople, and Kim says they both have small business in their blood. There are challenges and rewards to working in small-town sports retail, especially when it’s your first retail rodeo. Listen to […]
Frank LeClair, Chuck LeClair, and Victor LaClair (yes, his last name is spelled differently) are three of nine siblings. They were born and raised on the family farm in Churubusco. From an early age, they learned farm tasks like haying and milking cows, and they remember finding ways to have fun doing them.
Nancy Monette worked part-time in the children’s room at the Plattsburgh Public Library. Later, she became a librarian at St. John’s High School, her alma mater, which became Seton Catholic Central High School.
From 1974 to 2004, Ursula Jones worked for the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center. Located in Ogdensburg, the center serviced Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Lewis, St. Lawrence, & Jefferson Counties. She was a community worker who worked with people in the center from Clinton County. One of her jobs was to do discharge planning for people in […]
Michele Carpentier is the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at SUNY Plattsburgh. An important aspect of her job is running different programs for disadvantaged students. One of the programs that sticks out in her mind is the campus food shelf. Listen to Carpentier explain how they got the campus food shelf started.
Jane Desotelle owns Underwood Herbs, where she sells herbs at local farmers’ markets. She actually helped get those farmers markets started, and now she’s the Executive Director of the Adirondack Farmers Market Cooperative. She lives in the same property where she grew up in Plattsburgh, where her mother first taught her to pick herbs and […]
