Kelly Adirondack Center

Join us from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. this Sunday, September 15, at Agudat Achim in Niskayuna for their annual Carrot Festival celebrating fall! We'll be helping children make fall bracelets and decorate fall crowns!🍁

We're so excited to be hosting students as they embrace the great outdoors with !

The EC Sanders and HD Cranston Travel Accounts are now digitized and available online! Adirondack Canoe Trip Made in the Summer of 1911 and An Incident in the Lives of Great Men, two scrapbooks in the Adirondack Research Library's collection are available to the public through the Union College institutional repository:

https://arches.union.edu/do/cf059d54-e5bd-45bd-8f6a-8b7536253bf9

Enjoy!

No filter! Cardinal flower from our new Natives and Pollinators Garden! Thanks again to Schenectady's Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners for all their work designing this beautiful space!

In Adirondack news today.....

A young bear had been hanging out around Limekiln. Someone started feeding it. The bear continued to show up to be fed (one of the many reasons they say a fed bear is a dead bear) and it became a nuisance. Then the bear was shot by the DEC because they can't risk a wild animal hurting a human.

ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.

How many more animals must die before we stop feeding the wildlife??

No need to leave comments about how we're in their habitat, we've been in their habitat for over 100 years. Towns are not going to close down.

No need to blame anyone but the people who refuse to abide by the DON'T FEED THE WILDLIFE rules.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. DO NOT FEED ANY ANIMALS YOU DID NOT BRING WITH YOU! PERIOD.

Works of two Schenectady painters On Exhibit in Niskayuna For Schenectady painters and professors Laini Nemett and Walter Hatke, a long-running email correspondence helped them see a shift in their work, from more interior geometries to an exploration of exterior spaces.

Maybe a little rain isn't such a bad idea!

Happy International Women's Day! Who's your hero? This is poet Jeanne Robert Foster with her mother, poet Lucia Oliviere. In 1970, Foster was awarded an honorary doctorate by Union College.

"As kids we sat in grass, fished our hands into that damp brown universe, felt it writhe, alert and alive. That earth cupped in the boat of our palms. Our eyes waxed wide with wonder. This children understand: even grime is a gift, even what is mired is miraculous."

“What We Carry” - Amanda Gorman & Jan Vogler (LIVE on The Late Show) National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler collaborate on a unique performance of Gorman’s poem, “What We Carry,” set t...

Congratulations to Steven Engelbright, this year's winner of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award! In his acceptance speech, he noted the importance of preserving places like the Adirondacks in slowing climate change.

For more visit:

Adirondack Wild holds annual meeting, announces 2023 awards - Newcomb, NY – The Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb played host this month to Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve’s annual meeting and 2023 award presentations. The Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award, named after 20th century wilderness preservation leader Paul Schaefer, was pres...

Dalton-Loines Family Papers Exhibit Reception

October 25, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.
at the Kelly Adirondack Center
This event is free and open to the public.

The Dalton-Loines Family Papers
Between 2019 and 2022 Sylvia Rogal Pope donated her collection of documents, photographs, and ephemera from the Dalton-Loines family to the Adirondack Research Library. In 2022, Phyllis Modley donated a guestbook filled with additional memories. The Dalton-Loines Family Papers consists mainly of materials that focus on their lake houses in the Northwest Bay of Lake George.

This collection is an exciting gift as it not only reflects a family’s commitment to preserving nature through generations but exemplifies the role women took in grassroots environmentalism during the 20th century. The Adirondack Research Library extends its deepest thanks to the Dalton-Loines family and to each of its members who, through the years, saw the value in preserving not only this cherished place on Lake George but these treasured memories.

The Dalton-Loines Family
Stephen Loines (1846-1919), a wealthy marine insurance broker, and his wife Mary Hillard Loines (1844-1944), a prominent suffragette, lived most of the year in Brooklyn Heights, New York with their three daughters Hilda, Elma, and Sylvia (who married William Dalton), and their son Russell. Beginning in the 1890s, they would amass 12,000 acres on Northwest Bay on Lake George including two miles of shoreline. They clearly enjoyed the recreation and entertainment the lake and her shores afforded but they also committed themselves to their conservation. Among other efforts, they were ardent supporters of the creation of a Lake George Park and fought the construction of Rt. 9N along the shores of Lake George.

Much of the Dalton Loines property is now in the hands of conservancies and New York State. The 36-acre Loines Preserve was donated to the Eastern New York Nature Conservancy by the Loines sisters in 1964. An additional 1,310 acres was purchased by the Lake George Land Conservancy in 2000 and 2001 and is now the Pole Hill Pond Preserve owned by New York State. Another 160 Acres at Wing Pond is currently preserved by the LGLC.

Their conservation legacy lies in the woods and wetlands that filter the streams and runoff that feed Lake George and the herons, mergansers, beavers and other animals, large and small, that today find a home there.



“No land conservation effort on Lake George’s west shore has contributed more to the preservation of the lake’s water quality than the acquisition of Loines properties by New York and the land conservancies over the past one hundred years.” ~ Tony Hall, editor and publisher of the Lake George Mirror

The Galway Public LibraryLibrary is now showing pieces from the Adirondack Research Library's collection of Kay Flickinger Dockstader photography! These images capture the Adirondacks of the '30s, '40s, and '50s, the landscape and the people that hiked and skied it.

Please check their website for directions and hours.
https://www.galwaypubliclibrary.org/

It's International Nature Journaling Week! Look for patterns and exceptions, it isn't always about the product sometimes it's about the process, tracing is not against the rules, and enjoy observing the changes over time!

Put away your self-doubt and take your pencils for a walk!

Program - International Nature Journaling Week 2021 — Nature Journaling Week Welcome to the program for International Nature Journaling Week 2021. Each day during the week we will focus on a new theme. Follow the links to explore the themes in more depth and don't forget our live events each day!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html

Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Power to Address Water Pollution The justices ruled that discharges into some wetlands are not covered by the Clean Water Act.

We're always amazed at the creativity of the kids at Union's Community Carnival! This year they designed and made wire-wrapped stone jewelry with us! Such fun!!!

The Sound of the Adirondacks with Dan Berggren

at the Kelly Adirondack Center
Outdoor Amphitheater

Wednesday, May 24, 2023
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.
The concert is weather dependent so please check back for updates if poor weather conditions are forecasted.


With guitar, banjo, a strong voice and a sense of humor, Dan sings of the many dimensions of home, hard-working folks, taking care of our planet and each other. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben writes: “Dan Berggren is the sound of the Adirondacks, as much as the water lapping against the granite shore of the lake or the loon echoing in the sunset or the wind tossing the spruce tops… he’s articulating things that need to be said right now.”

The largest park in the contiguous United States, the Adirondacks are a mix of state and private lands. Landowners hold a great responsibility to conserve the public's interest here. Those that are responsible should be rewarded and those that are not should be held accountable. Anything less is unacceptable...🌲

Adirondack Low Peaks and Lands
ADK Low Peaks and Lands
Adirondack Economic Forum
The Adirondack Writers' Society
www.adklpl.com

Join us at Union's Community Carnival under the tent in Hull Plaza (next to the Nott) on Sunday, May 21, from 12:00 to 2:30. We'll be making wire-wrapped stone jewelry!

Our thanks go out to all of the clubs and organizations whose work made Saturday's Pride Fest such a success!!!

We made rainbow origami butterflies with students and gave out "Outside Together" buttons!

Join the Kelly Adirondack Center and the .ornithology Club at the KAC on Sunday from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. for Blanket Birding!

We'll be slow birding in the outdoor amphitheater as the Henry G. Reist Wildlife Sanctuary comes alive with the "usual suspects" and hopefully some surprises!

This event is free and open to the public. If you'd like to ride the shuttle from campus, registration is required through Ornithology Club.

Please bring a blanket or camp chair. Coffee and donuts will be provided.

This event is weather dependent so please check the KAC site for updates if rain is in the forecast.

Our thanks go out to the Audubon Society of the Capital Region for the gift of these two bluebird boxes, hand crafted by one of their members! We look forward to learning from all the feathered friends who move in! It was a real pleasure hosting ASCR's annual meeting at the KAC on Saturday!

Our thanks go out to Adirondack Mountain News for sharing our work with their readership!