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Don’t miss the Adirondack Museum this season!

June 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Adirondack News

Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. There’s no place on earth quite like the Adirondacks, and there’s no place in the Adirondacks quite like the Adirondack Museum. The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York is now open for it’s 54th season. This season, the museum has two new exhibits sure to wow visitors, and also introduces a host of fantastic family activities and special events. In addition there are two new initiatives to
encourage visitors this summer.

First, the Adirondack Museum has lowered some of its admissions prices for 2011. The new admissions prices are $16 for seniors (62 and over), $12 for teens (13-17), and $6 for kids (6-12). The price for adults remains $18 and free for those 5 and under. Admission is free for members and all active military every day. Special reduced group rates are also available.

Adirondack Museum - Guideboats Secondly, the Adirondack Museum is also collaborating with Stewarts Shops in their “Lucky Tape” promotion. Stop by your local store during the week of June 27 to enter to win tickets to the Adirondack Museum. Participating shops include: Indian Lake, Long Lake, Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Warrensburg, Bolton Landing, and North Creek.

The museum is open May 27 through October 17, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week, including holidays. There will be an early closing on August 12, and adjusted hours on August 13; the museum will close for the day on September 9. Visit www.adirondackmuseum.org for more information.

All paid admissions are valid for a second visit within a one-week period.

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Night Vision – Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts

March 2nd, 2011 · 5 Comments · Adirondack News

Old Forge, N.Y. – Before motion-sensors, in-fared, and mega pixels, before digital trail cameras there was Hobart Roberts.

The Adirondack Museum’s Cabin Fever Sunday series will travel to Old Forge, New York on March 13, 2011. “Night Vision: The Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts” with museum Curator Laura Rice will be held at the Old Forge Arts Center. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m.

The presentation will offered at no charge to museum members and children of elementary school age or younger. The fee for non-members is $5.00. For additional information, please call the Education Department at (518) 352-7311, ext. 128 or visit the museum’s web site at www.adirondackmuseum.org.

Hobart Vosburgh Roberts (1874-1959) was one of the nation’s most recognized amateur wildlife photographers in the first decades of the 20th century. Roberts developed ingenious techniques for capturing birds and animals on film in their natural habitats. Most notably, the Utica, N.Y. native was one of a small group of amateur photographers who pioneered photographing animals at night.

The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. will introduce a new exhibit, “Night Vision: Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts,” on May 27, 2011. Laura Rice’s illustrated presentation will preview the approximately 35 original large-format photographs of Adirondack wildlife, cameras, equipment, colored lithographic prints, hand-colored transparencies, published works, as well as the photographer’s many awards that will be included in the exhibit.

Robert’s work was published in Audubon Magazine, Country Life, Modern Photography, and The National Geographic Magazine. Famed photographer Edward Steichen selected Roberts’ photos for inclusion in U.S. Camera 1940, along with images by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Eliot Porter.

Laura Rice joined the staff of the Adirondack Museum in 2003. She had previously served as a Curator, Museum Educator, and Consultant at a number of other museums. Ms. Rice holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in American Civilization with an emphasis on Museum Studies. She is the author of the award-winning book Maryland History in Prints: 1752 – 1900, a history of the state of Maryland based on selected images in the Maryland Historical Society Print Collection.

Cabin Fever Sunday programs are sponsored by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park: www.pearsallfoundation.org

The Adirondack Museum, accredited by the American Association of Museums, tells stories of the people – past and present — who have lived, worked, and played in the unique place that is the Adirondack Park. History is in our nature. The museum is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. For information about all that the museum has to offer, please call (518) 352-7311, or visit www.adirondackmuseum.org.

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Ed Kanze Explores Winter at the Adirondack Museum

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Adirondack News

Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. — Learn, laugh, grow – and stay warm! Join the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York for the 2011 Cabin Sunday Series.

We have two seasons in the Adirondacks, according to an old saying, winter and July 4th. Join naturalist Ed Kanze on Sunday, January 9, 2011 and cool a blazing case of cabin fever with an armchair adventure in the snow. Look at winter in a whole new way!

Kanze will offer a program entitled “Below Zero and Above Reproach: The Virtues of an Adirondack Winter.”

The presentation will be the first in the museum’s always-popular Cabin Fever Sunday series. Held in the Auditorium, the program will begin promptly at 1:30 p.m. Cabin Fever Sundays are offered at no charge to museum members or children of elementary school age and younger. The fee for non-members is $5.00. Refreshments will be served. For additional information, please call the Education Department at (518) 352-7311, ext. 128 or visit the museum’s web site at www.adirondackmuseum.org.

The Museum Store and Visitor Center will be open from noon to 4 p.m.

Cabin Fever Sunday presentations are sponsored by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park: www.pearsallfoundation.org.

Kanze will explore the long, cold, snowy Adirondack winter and will look at how flora, fauna, and people overcome its challenges. He will share color photos shot in his part of the region showing things such as a long-tailed weasel in winter white and a flock of brilliantly colored evening grosbeaks.

Kanze will cover the science of winter as well. For instance, the white coat put on by hares and weasels may have more to do with keeping warm than camouflage, counter to popular understanding.

Ed Kanze is a 1978 graduate of Middlebury College. He earned a B.A. in Geography and won the Bermas Prize for highest departmental honors. He lives with his wife and two children on 18 acres along the Saranac River.

In April 2005, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Ed’s essay about the passenger pigeon, “In Search Of Something Lost,” was named by the John Burroughs Association as the Outstanding Published Natural History Essay of 2004. The same essay earned a gold medal in environmental writing from the International Regional Magazine Association. PBS featured Ed and his nature writing in the documentary, “The Adirondacks.” His essays and articles have appeared in Adirondack Life, Audubon, Birder’s World, The Conservationist, Utne Reader, and many more.

Ed has published five books. His most recent, Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist
brings together stories of nature and adventure in New York State’s Adirondack Park, the largest park in the Lower 48.

The Adirondack Museum tells stories of the people – past and present — who have lived, worked, and played in the unique place that is the Adirondack Park. History is in our nature. The museum is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. For information about all that the museum has to offer, please call (518) 352-7311, or visit www.adirondackmuseum.org.

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