Happy New Year: Hike planned for John Brown Farm Sun Community News By News Report Dec 27, 2021 1:30 PM Celebrate the new year in the outdoors with a First Day Hike at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid. All ages and abilities are welcome to [...]
From the Adirondack Explorer Finding Timbuctoo December 18, 2021 John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, with the Olympic ski jump tower in the background. Photo courtesy of Paul A. Miller How a nonprofit, archeologist and filmmaker came together to showcase a little-known Adirondack settlement By Holly Riddle [...]
North Elba projects receive significant support LEAF has awarded more than $740,000 to the North Elba community. By News Report Nov 17, 2021 6:00 PM LAKE PLACID | The North Elba Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund (LEAF) awarded funds to several local organizations. North Elba LEAF is a dedicated and [...]
Writer, filmmaker to show documentary on Black Adirondack settlement "Searching for Timbuctoo" by Paul Miller will be shown Nov. 12 at Page Hall Jack Rightmyer Nov. 3, 2021Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 7:01 p.m. Paul Miller filming in the Adirondacks.Provided, Paul Miller When Paul Miller was a freshman in college and [...]
Raoul Peck honored at John Brown Farm Adirondack Daily Enterprise By Lauren Yates Oct. 26, 2021 Ren Davidson Seward, left, and Raoul Peck talk at the Memorial Field for Black Lives at the John Brown Farm, at an event honoring Raoul Peck’s filmmaking career documenting life in his home country [...]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 Adirondack Wild to feature Dawson, Hogan at annual meeting by Community News Reports North Creek, NY – Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve convenes its 11th Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, September 24, 2021, at Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek. The meeting begins with Adirondack Wild’s program [...]
August 18, 2021 Seven Days By KEN PICARD COURTESY OF LINDSAY PONTIUS Many elements of history lie hidden amid family heirlooms. Katherine Butler Jones, a Black woman from Massachusetts, was going through some family documents more than two decades ago when she came upon the original marriage certificate of her great-great-grandparents. [...]
Advocates reflect on welcoming strategies at historic site anniversary and Juneteenth celebration June 19, 2021 Adirondack Explorer By Brandon Loomis Nicole Hylton-Patterson, director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, says John Brown Farm is a place that can help Adirondack visitors feel at home and inspired to champion inclusivity. Photo by [...]
Adirondack Almanack Thursday June 17, 2021 by Community News Reports On Friday, June 18, 2021, John Brown Lives! (JBL!) and NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSORHP) will unveil a banner heralding the 125th anniversary of NYS’ acquisition of the John Brown Farm in 1896. NYS Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid [...]
MAY 7, 2021 Adirondack Daily Press by THE ENTERPRISE STAFF Sierra Club President Aaron Mair kneels at the grave of 19th-century abolitionist John Brown after laying a wreath with his daughter Olivia as part of John Brown Day May 6, 2017, at the John Brown Day State Historic Site in [...]