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Tag: Fulton Fryar
Fulton Fryar’s Closet: Racial Inequality in 1950s New York State
This special first aired on June 22, 2018. Guest-hosted by arts producer Paul Larson, this TV special and its webpage tell a relatively unknown story of racial inequality in 1950s Adirondack culture, and how memories of it resurfaced recently when a building at Seagle Music Colony (now Seagle Festival) in Schroon Lake, New York, faced…
Historian reacts to Fulton Fryar’s experience of racial inequality
This story first aired June 22, 2018. Looking Back on Racial Segregation North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association President Jackie Madison understands discrimination. She grew up in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, and fully comprehends the segregation Fulton Fryar experienced when he was growing up in the same state. Now a resident of…
THREE EMMY NOMINATIONS FOR MOUNTAIN LAKE PBS!
Mountain Lake PBS is proud to announce three stories from its flagship program MOUNTAIN LAKE JOURNAL have been honored with Emmy nominations in the 42nd Annual Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Nominated in the category of Historic/Cultural Feature or Segment, “Fulton Fryar’s Closet” from Paul Larson’s SPOTLIGHT series explores a relatively unknown story of racial inequality in 1950s Adirondack culture, and how…
’50s Racially Segregated Sleeping Quarters Are Now A Museum Exhibit
Two of the people responsible for protecting a historic building associated with racial inequality discuss its significance with producer Paul Larson. Executive Director Steven Engelhart of Adirondack Architectural Heritage and Executive Director David Kahn of the Adirondack Experience talk about the reason for moving the building to a museum. This video was originally produced for…
Fulton Fryar’s Homecoming features MLPBS premiere
Fulton Fryar now has some new memories of his old “Closet,” after having visited his former sleeping quarters for the first time in a museum setting. The Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, is the new home of Fryar’s Closet. It will serve to educate visitors as a relic of racial segregation in…
Steven Engelhart and David Kahn discuss Fulton Fryar’s Closet (part 2)
Adirondack Experience Executive Director David Kahn and Adirondack Architectural Heritage Executive Director Steven Engelhart discuss the cultural impact of Fulton Fryar’s Closet in a museum setting. For more information about Fulton Fryar’s Closet and racial inequality in 1950s upstate New York, explore the webpage Spotlight: Fulton Fryar’s Closet.
