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Kelly Adirondack Center Fall 2021 Newsletter
Margaret Amodeo
The Kelly Adirondack Center Fall 2021 newsletter shares information on the Adirondack Mini-Term and newly available acid rain archives from the Adirondack Council.
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Kelly Adirondack Center Fall 2022 Newsletter
Margaret Amodeo
The Kelly Adirondack Center Fall 2022 newsletter shares information about volume 25 of AJES, a new collection at the Adirondack Research Library, and student experiences from Professor Laini Nemett's plein air painting course.
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Kelly Adirondack Center Spring 2022 Newsletter
Margaret Amodeo
The Spring 2022 Kelly Adirondack Center Newsletter shares information on our spring birding programs and recent advances in digital preservation at the Adirondack Research Library. We also remember Anne Weld and Patty Prindle, two ARL volunteers who passed away in February.
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Kelly Adirondack Center Spring 2023 Newsletter
Margaret Amodeo
The Kelly Adirondack Center Spring 2023 newsletter shares information on the Adirondack Research Library Postcard Collection and new exhibit, Layers of Autumn.
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Report of the Superintendent of the State Land Survey of the State of New York for the Year 1898
Verplanck Colvin and Norman J. Van Valkenburgh
Typescript draft of the lost 1898 Colvin Report from the Verplanck Colvin collection (ARL-072) held by the archives of the Adirondack Research Library.
“The original manuscript from which we began was a combination of typed and handwritten pages with a great number of deletions and inserts throughout,” Norm Van Valkenburgh wrote. “Some of it was most difficult to interpret,” which is a concession coming from a fellow surveyor. “It is only because of the patience and skills of four typists…that a complete and comprehensive second draft of the manuscript was produced.
The Report of the Superintendent of the State Land Survey of the State of New York for the Year 1898, edited and with an introduction written by Norman J. Van Valkenburgh was finally published in 1989.
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The Adirondack Chronology
Carl George, Richard E. Tucker, J. Douglass Klein, Hallie E. Bond, and Margie Amodeo
The Adirondack Chronology is intended to be a useful resource for researchers and others interested in the Adirondacks and Adirondack history.
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Grassroots Activism in the American Wilderness
India Spartz and Abigail Simkovic
This exhibit catalog is the culmination of a generous multi-year grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The grant provided funds for the Schaffer Library at Union College to arrange, describe, and make accessible the archives of citizen activists John S. Apperson, Jr. and Paul Schaefer, whose work is featured in the exhibit. The roots of our national wilderness system, signed into law as the 1964 Wilderness Act by President Lyndon Johnson, run deep in the Adirondacks. Created in 1885 and constitutionally protected in 1894, the Adirondack Forest Preserve was the first wilderness area in the U.S. to be set aside as open space where resource extraction was prohibited. The vigilance and perseverance of environmental activists such as Apperson and Schaefer played a vital role in saving wilderness lands and preserving them for the future. The materials in this catalog are a sampling of the legacy of Schaefer and Apperson.