David Kanietakeron Fadden
David Fadden uses the Six Nations Indian Museum in Onchiota, his talks, and storytelling to dispel stereotypes about Native Americans.
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Kathleen Suozzo
Kathleen Suozzo’s work is at the heart of one of the more difficult issues facing the Adirondacks today: upgrading aging waste-water and drinking-water treatment facilities in small communities.
Park Perspectives: Not your average peak bagger
By Tom Woodman In some circles the label peak bagger has a negative, almost sneering, connotation. The criticism is that these hikers are so intent on checking names off lists of mountain ascents that they overlook a deeper experience of being in nature. Spencer Morrissey concedes that at first he might have been a stereotypical…
Park Perspectives: Soaring for science
By Tom Woodman “Lake Placid control: experimental craft, eight, four, one Echo Mike preparing to take off…” Driving to meet Ed McNeil this morning I worried that after thirty-six years in journalism I might be in danger of violating one of my important rules: never whimper. And as I hear Ed’s voice in the headphones…
Park Perspectives: Stories at his fingertips
For centuries Lake Champlain has been a thoroughfare for history. Naval engagements helped determine the outcomes of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. In the nineteenth century, a thriving iron industry used canal boats to transport ore down the lake and the Hudson River to Troy. And today fishing and pleasure boating strengthen the…
Park Perspectives: A jack-of-all-trades
Around 2 a.m. on a stormy night in August 2013, vicious winds from a microburst exploded onto the southeast shoreline of Upper Saranac Lake, directly onto the property of Mary Watson. The winds ripped trees into piles along a swath next to a 120-year-old main camp building. Just up the shore, in a home on the Watson property Sonny Young heard the…
Park Perspectives: Bill, the rattlesnake guy
For thirty-six years Bill Brown has been tramping over the mountains, foothills, and lowlands of the Lake George Wild Forest keeping tabs on old acquaintances and meeting new ones in out-of the way crevices, under rocks, or wandering the forest floor. Bill is a researcher who studies the Adirondack population of timber rattlesnakes, a threatened species in New York. In the…
Park Perspectives: Healing Tales
ON HISTORIC land alongside a well-trodden passage between two lakes in the northern forest dwells a storyteller. She has practiced her craft before audiences from school kids to prisoners for many years, sharing tales of her own creating as well as traditional stories from around the world. There came a time following the illness and…
Park Perspectives: Reading nature’s tales
HERE’S SOMETHING you learn early on if you’re walking through the woods with Peter O’Shea: let him go first. Peter has the eyes of a man who has spent decades peering at the ground, reading the stories of the animals that have left signs there, taking account of the habitat, the type of vegetation, or…