North Country At Work

Jenny Drake painting Long Lake’s 82 foot Vietnam War Memorial flagpole. Circa September 1992. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Long Lake High School/Central School employee portrait. First row: unknown, unknown, Jeanette Jennings (Wilson), Peg Morgan (Duane), Florence Volker, Professor Daniel J. Hughes, May Whitcomb (Cary), Judge Timothy Sullivan (President of the School Board), and Elizabeth Clark. Second row: unknown, Clara Stanton, Caroline Sawyer, Beatrice Hewitt, Eleanor Lewis, Mary Le Blane, Pauline Hall, and Nellie […]

Moving the Adirondack Museum’s railroad car on the Long Lake bridge. Howard Seaman in his TDG bulldozer pulls the car across. Circa 1950s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Hamilton County Board of Supervisors. Chairman was Morrison J. Hosley, Junior. Circa 1984. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Members of the “Independent Order of Foresters,” a fraternal organization established by Long Lake loggers that advocated for workers’ rights. Circa early 1900s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Conductor and music teacher (man and woman center) with the Long Lake High School orchestra. Circa 1932-1933. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Camp Beattie staff and campers pose for a group photo. Camp Beattie was a children’s summer camp at Caedmuir Lodge run by Mrs. Elvira S. Beattie and Mr. Robert W. Beattie. The camp was established in 1925 and closed in the 1950s. Circa 1930s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake […]

Bunks at Camp Beattie, a children’s summer camp at Caedmuir Lodge run by Mrs. Elvira S. Beattie and Mr. Robert W. Beattie. The camp was established in 1925 and closed in the 1950s. Circa 1930s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.

Patty Farrell (center, in shirt with white V-shaped stripes) teaching a basket weaving class to adults at Ogdensburg Mater Dei College. 1990s. Ogdensburg, NY.

Shea Carr (far left) unloading supplies from her car outside the Adirondack Experience museum before teaching a basket-weaving class. She and her kids (Delaney and Ian Carr) carry reeds to weave baskets with. Baskets in different stages can be seen in her trunk. 2012. Blue Mountain Lake, NY.