Calendar of Events

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    Holiday Shopping at the ADKX!

    Shop the ADKX Store for Everyone on Your List! The ADKX Store will be open Fridays and Saturdays from November 28 through December 20, 10 AM to 4 PM! Looking to bring some Adirondack charm into your holiday celebrations? Stuff your stockings (or packbaskets) with holiday gifts from the ADKX Store! ADKX Members receive 20% […]

  • Recurring

    Holiday Shopping at the ADKX!

    Shop the ADKX Store for Everyone on Your List! The ADKX Store will be open Fridays and Saturdays from November 28 through December 20, 10 AM to 4 PM! Looking to bring some Adirondack charm into your holiday celebrations? Stuff your stockings (or packbaskets) with holiday gifts from the ADKX Store! ADKX Members receive 20% […]

  • John Brown in New York, by Sandra Weber

    This is a virtual program.  With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story of sublime scenery and human rights concentrates on John's relationships with his family and black neighbors, which brings […]

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  • Greetings from the Great Camps: The History of the Adirondack Vacation

    This is a virtual program.  In 1850 the Adirondack region remained, literally, a blank spot on the map—unsurveyed, uncharted, and largely unorganized. Most white Americans saw the Adirondacks as a place so desolate that—to quote an early document, "by reason of Mountains, Swampes (sic), and Drowned Lands is impassible and uninhabited." Yet by 1900 the Adirondacks hosted elaborate […]

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  • Utica Royalties

    730 Broadway, Utica, NY 13502 730 Broadway, Utica, NY

    In preparation for a landmark exhibition opening in 2027 on The Black Experience in the Adirondacks, the Adirondack Experience is hosting collecting events around New York State. Your objects tell the full story of Black life in the Adirondacks. We are seeking a wide range of materials, including photographs, souvenirs, letters, postcards, recipes, clothing, and […]

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  • Bad Juliet, by Giles Blunt

    This is a virtual program.  At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound […]

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  • Albany Public Library

    Albany Public Library 161 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

    In preparation for a landmark exhibition opening in 2027 on The Black Experience in the Adirondacks, the Adirondack Experience is hosting collecting events around New York State. Your objects tell the full story of Black life in the Adirondacks. We are seeking a wide range of materials, including photographs, souvenirs, letters, postcards, recipes, clothing, and […]

    Free
  • Edventures with Brother Yusuf

    Albany Public Library 161 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

    This is a hybrid program.  IN-PERSON at the Albany Public Library (Washington Ave. Branch) or VIRTUALLY on Zoom. To get your required Zoom link, please click "Get Tickets" and register now. In preparation for a landmark exhibition on the Black Experience in the Adirondacks, Albany Public Library and the Adirondack Experience will host speaker Adam […]

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  • Georgia O’Keeffe at Lake George: Painted Subjects, Social Relations, and Reflections on Selfhood

    This is a virtual program.  How might we account for the creative outpouring that marked Georgia O’Keeffe’s years at Lake George, an interval that stands among the most prolific of her seven-decade career? A survey of her work from this period reveals an astonishing abundance: roughly two hundred paintings on canvas and paper, accompanied by […]

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  • “The Nerviest Man I Ever Saw!" Theodore Roosevelt's Audacious Midnight Ride to the Presidency

    This is a virtual program.  Teddy Roosevelt biographer Paul Grondahl will discuss the dramatic hours when Roosevelt climbed Mount Marcy, learned that President William McKinley had died of an assassin's wounds, a daring midnight wagon ride to the North Creek train station, and his swearing-in as the 26th President of the United States in Buffalo […]

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