Carrie Hill working inside her home studio/workshop in Hogansburg, on the Mohawk Akwesasne Reservation. Carrie has been making baskets since 2006, and went full-time in 2015. Read and listen to her full North Country at Work story here! Hogansburg, NY. Photo taken in October of 2019 by Amy Feiereisel.
Transfer station operator Jennifer Reid helps Bob Hudak with his plastics in the Town of North Elba Recycling Center. 2019. North Elba, NY. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. Read and listen to the full story here.
Lizzie Boolukos inside her salon, Beehive Beauty. Winter of 2019. Cumberland Head, NY. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. Listen and read Lizzie’s full story here.
Colleen Smith behind the bar in the Adirondack Hotel tap room. Long Lake. Spring of 2019. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. Listen and read Colleen’s full 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.
Ellen Rocco, North Country Public Radio’s Station Manager from the early 80s until 2019, being welcomed by Lake Placid Mayor Robert Peacock, after the installation of a translator there, which strengthened the station’s signal in Lake Placid. Summer of 1986. Lake Placid, NY. Photo originally printed in the Lake Placid News on September 18, 1986.
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.
Cris Winters poses in the Art at the Pink House gallery, which she owns and operates. Winters specializes in fiber arts, and often incorporates natural materials into her work. Saranac Lake, NY. July 13, 2019. Photo by Amy Feiereisel.
A worker at the Essex County Clerk’s office helping someone with paperwork. The clerk’s office helps with everything from passports to county records to pistol permits. 2019. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Joe Provoncha. Joe Provoncha has served as the Essex County Clerk for 28 years. Listen to his story in the audio clip!
Switchboard operators in the telephone office on their last day of work. They ran the switchboard for the whole township and a number of the islands. The building still remains on Church Street; in 2019, it is an AT&T store. 1962. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.
