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Category: Curiously Adirondack
Special Deliveries: Helping Babies Into The World, Adirondack-Style
At the Adirondack Medical Center – https://www.adirondackhealth.org in Saranac Lake, a talented and hard-working OB/GYN team has been working its magic for generations. Could there be a better place to have a baby? We can’t think of one. Meet the welcome committee.
The First Adirondackers: Part Two
Our look at the Native American story in the Adirondack region continues. Learn how new findings by faculty and students from Paul Smith’s College – https://www.paulsmiths.edu and SUNY Potsdam – https://www.potsdam.edu are lending support to the story told by Onchiota’s Six Nations Indian Museum – http://www.sixnationsindianmuseum.com for years: people arrived in the Adirondacks in the…
The First Adirondackers: Part One
Working with their students, biologist Curt Stager of Paul Smith’s College – https://www.paulsmiths.edu and archeologist Tim Messner of SUNY Potsdam – https://www.potsdam.edu have been making eye-opening finds. Their discoveries on land, underground, and in muck hauled up from the bottoms of ponds support what John Fadden and his family, of the Six Nations Indian Museum…
Curiously Adirondack: OK Slip Falls
Naturalist Ed Kanze & Producer Josh Clement are back this week to take us on a hike to a spectacular natural wonder and what many believe is the highest waterfalls in the Adirondacks, OK Slip Falls, near the village of Indian Lake in Hamilton County. Ed tells us how it got its unusual name. Watch the…
The Music Man of Saranac Lake: Ampersound’s Mark Coleman
Yes, the mountains and valleys that lie between them are among the most beautiful on earth, and yes, the lakes are full of fish and fun. But the best thing about the Adirondack Mountain region may well be the one-of-a-kind people who carve out lives here. A prime example is Mark Coleman, proprietor of Ampersound,…
Re-Wilding of the Intervale Lowlands
In 2009, biologist Larry Master and his wife, Nancy, bought 135 acres of woods, fields, flowing water, and floodplain near Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains. Their mission: to make the property sing with songbirds, to convert its mowed fields to meadows full of native plants and animals, and to identify and monitor its wildlife…
What Does The Moose Say?
There are spelling bees. There are trivia contests. There are athletic games and lumberjack competitions. But have you ever seen and heard a moose-calling contest? The scene is wild, competitors are fierce, and it’s all in good fun. Special thanks to Tony Germano for contributing additional photos to this piece. Cheers Tony! Produced for Mountain…
Dirt, Food, and Friends: Fledging Crow Farm Celebrates The Harvest
In Keeseville, on the eastern edge of upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains, a new-fangled subscription farm called Fledging Crow grows food the old fashioned way: with lots of elbow grease, lots of help from neighbors, and no artificial fertilizers or pesticides. Every year, the farmers celebrate their harvest and the community of life that made…
Asleep Beneath The Sod: Saranac Lake’s Historic Pine Ridge Cemetery
Saranac Lake’s Pine Ridge Cemetery sprawls over a sandy hillside in the heart of the village. In it lie the last remains of the village’s first settlers, along with hundreds of others, some well known, some not, who followed them across the great divide. Join Mountain Lake PBS and Curiously Adirondack in a ramble through…
Slimed! Adirondack Kids Love Amphibians!
Adirondack kids can’t resist slimy things that hop and crawl. Join three warm-blooded young naturalists as they hunt for frogs, toads, and salamanders. Don’t think amphibians are cool? Maybe we can change your mind. Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). Thanks to all our business and individual supporters…
