North Country At Work

New York State Trooper’s car assigned to Long Lake, driving on the Tupper Lake Road in winter. Circa 1940s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

The Hammond Advertiser, a weekly newspaper that operated 1886-1949, on Main Street in Hammond. A 1918 Franklin Touring Car is parked in front of the office. Circa 1920. Hammond, NY.

Joyce Bozak on her family’s business, Bozak & Sons, a garage and used car dealership for which she has been the bookkeeper since its opening in 1982. The division of labor was: her husband sold the used cars, her son did the repairs, and she kept the numbers straight. Interviewed on May 31, 2018. Long […]

Exterior of Dunlop’s Store and Post Office. Note the hammock on the second story porch. 1905-1920. Stony Creek, NY. Photo courtesy of Adirondack Experience: the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. Check out this story on mail delivery in the Adirondacks.

Moose Head Hotel in winter. Men and women on the steps, automobiles can be seen on either side of the hotel. 1940s. Town of Webb, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goodsell Museum. Check out our story about Webb’s transformation from logging town to tourist destination.

The Rockwood family (left to right): June, Alice, Rose, and Allen, by an automobile in front of their farmhouse. Photo courtesy of John Stano. Early 1930s. Pillar Point, NY. Check out our story on the Rockwood family farm.

Potsdam Electric Light & Power Company service truck No. 1. In 1913, this Model T Ford service truck was one of three vehicles operating out of Potsdam for the Hannawa Falls Electric Light and Power Co. Arthur Cassada, a Clarkson Graduate and electrician, was the truck’s first driver. The vehicle’s service to the company was […]

Officer Jordan Nason of the Tupper Lake Police Department with JD, the TLPD’s K-9 Unit. 2017.  Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Tupper Lake Police Department. Read our full North Country at Work story and interview with Tupper Lake Police Department Police Chief Eric Proulx here. 

Officer Tom Proulx in a Tupper Lake Police Department vehicle. 1978. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Tupper Lake Police Department. Read the full North Country at Work story and interview with Tupper Lake Police Department Police Chief Eric Proulx here. 

Eric Proulx shows off the inside of a TLPD cruiser, one of two Ford Interceptor SUVs. Each has a radio, computer, lighting equipment and sirens, plus a patrol rifle, shotgun and a radar unit in the front. Gear stored in the back includes a medical bag, road flares, cones, measuring tape and a defibrillator. 2017. […]