A young Gary Purdue sits inside the family car in front of Ste Marie’s grocery store in the Village of Indian Lake. Late 1940s. Indian Lake, NY. Photograph by Frederick N. Purdue, Jr. Courtesy of Frederick Purdue.
Mary Graser checks a line of bags ready to be picked up by phone-in customers at Nature’s Storehouse. Canton, NY. 2020. Photo by Lisa Lazenby. To learn more about how grocers across the North Country adapted during the pandemic, check out this North Country at Work story.
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.
Woman loads box into the delivery van of Green Goddess Natural Foods. The van had been used for catering services, but after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was used for a daily grocery delivery service to help people shelter at home. Lake Placid, NY. March 2020. Photo courtesy of Tammy Loewy. To learn […]
Man sanitizes a cooler at Nori’s Village Market. After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they started taking two hours to clean the store each morning. Saranac Lake, NY. 2020. Photo courtesy of Presley Ransom. For more on how grocers across the North Country adapted during the pandemic, check out this North Country at Work […]
Owner and operator of the ADK Trading Post, Vickie Sandiford, at the store’s pickup window. Sandiford closed the convenience store and gift shop at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened in April 2020 using a porch pick-up system. Long Lake, NY. 2020. Photo courtesy of Vickie Sandiford. See the full story on how the […]
Outside Gebrial’s Food Market, located on 26 Main Street. Circa 1960. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.
Nature’s Storehouse co-owner, Joshua Crabtree, with freshly baked bread inside the store. Joshua was the store’s baker at that time. 2002. Canton, NY. Photo courtesy of Rainbow Crabtree.
Workers and produce outside the E.H. Thompsan & Company Grocers. Circa 1890-1900. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society.
Men and boys by the counter of the O.C. Smith grocery store, located on 178 Glen St. Circa 1900- 1910. Glens Falls, NY. Courtesy of the Chapman Museum.
