North Country At Work

Grace LaParr posing with her son and turkeys on the grounds of the hunting camp that she and her husband ran. Circa early 1900s.

Hunting camp photograph, circa 1890s. Harrisville, NY. Photo donated by Jim LaParr.

Mark Nassan runs a bike shop – “bicycles, human powered.” He’s been making bikes, doing repairs, and teaching the biking lifestyle at Leepoff Cycles, a custom bike shop in Keene Valley, for 21 years. Listen to Mark’s story here.

Alan Washbond and Ivan Brown posing with the Olympic bobsled they built. The pair won the gold medal at the winter Olympics in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Photo courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives. Alan Washbond was Hope Stone and Charity Marlatt’s father. Listen to their memories of their father’s victory here. 

Men on the porch of a boarding house on Main Street in Newbridge. A few years later, a second-floor porch was added. 1909. Newbridge, NY.

View of Main Street, boarding house in the foreground. September 1911. Newbridge, NY.

Mountain House, a hunting and fishing resort owned by J.W. McAleese. Women housekeepers or kitchen help are included in this image. Circa 1910. Cranberry lake, NY.

Mountain House/Home, rebuilt after the original burned down. It was a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. McAleese. Some of the clientele were clearly hunters: note deer carcasses displayed on horse-drawn wagon. Circa 1910-1915. Town of Clifton, NY

The original building of the Mountain House, a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. McAleese. Pigs eat dinner from trough in front of log hotel. 1890s. Town of Clifton, NY.

Hunters pose with game laid across an automobile in front of Duley’s Garage on Miller Street in Plattsburgh. Duley’s Garage operated from 1928 until 1961. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.