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Organic, natural, contemporary furniture inspired by the wilderness can be seen at the 21st Annual Rustic Fair presented by the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake. Skilled craftsmanship and unique designs in creations made of bark, twigs, branches and burls will be on display. The Rustic Fair will be held on September 6, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on September 7, 2008 from 10:00

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This post has been cross-posted to New York History, the blog of Historical News and Views From The Empire State. In the heart of the Adirondacks is the Town of Newcomb, population about 500. The town was developed as a lumbering and mining community - today tourism and forest and wood products are the dominate way locals make a living. As a result the Essex County town is one of the Adirondacks

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We don't often get an opportunity to hear from local Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers, so yesterday's interview with 26-year veteran DEC Forest Ranger Mark Kralovic by Gloversville Leader-Herald reporter Kayleigh Karutis is worth noting here on the blog. Although Kralovic, who is stationed in Wells, Hamilton County, notes that he has not seen an Adirondack moose yet, he

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Adirondack Harvest, the community-based farm and food development and promotion program, has provided funds to groups throughout the region for celebrations of the bountiful fall season farm harvest. The effort is made possible by a $50,000 grant to Adirondack Harvest from the Spaulding-Paolozzi Foundation, which supports agricultural development and ecological preservation. According to

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The First Annual Great Adirondack Rutabaga Festival, sponsored by Adirondack Harvest and the Adirondack Farmers Market Cooperative, will be held at Marcy Field in Keene from 10 AM until 2 PM on Sunday, August 31st, 2008. The rutabaga comes to us from Sweden where the climate is comparable to the Adirondacks. This hardy, tasty and adaptable vegetable thrives in our sometimes harsh climate. Part

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The Wild Center is the only LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified museum in New York State. LEED is a green building rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council to provide standards for environmentally sustainable construction. The certification is considered the international benchmark for green building design. The Wild Center is going farther then just

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The Adirondack Scenic Railroad is looking for volunteers to be a part of the Thendara railroad experience, especially as car host volunteers who can work shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on any days between Wednesday and Sunday. Volunteer car hosts typically act as assistants to the conductor during train rides out of the Thendara station, talking with passengers, answering questions and

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FYI, a recent press release from the Adirondack Museum: The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York knows that its visitors like to "stay connected" when away from home. Checking email or keeping up with business is part of contemporary travel. The museum is pleased to announce that limited high-speed wireless Internet service is now available on the scenic campus in several locations.

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I recently read that as many or more people are killed crossing at marked crosswalks than jay-walking. It got me thinking about all those jay-walking stings - you know, where the police lay in wait for people to cross the street. In July more than 100 college presidents took an important step toward backing away from that kind of criminalizing barrage on Americans by suggesting we lower the

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There is an interesting post at the Adirondack North Country Association's blog that outlines the various attendence, tourism, and sales tax figures for the summer season so far. It a nice overview of what is happening with the local tourism economy. Here are some of the most important details: Five North Country counties have had an increase in sales tax revenue for the first six months of 2008

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Randomly organized links to ideas for making life in the Adirondacks just a little bit easier - technology tools and tips, do-it-yourself projects, and anything else that offers a more interesting, more convenient, or healthier way of life in our region. How To Beat Carnival Games Make A Sprinkler Stand out of a Torchiere Lamp Backcountry Bread Recipes Create An Online Timeline With Dipity

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Blogger, and part time Adirondack resident, Tigerhawk (who knew he was the cousin of another great semi-local blogger Walking the Berkshires) has posted photos of a pair of nesting Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, with little ones) above his camp. He is expecting "periodic showers of whitewash, partially eaten small mouth bass, and the bones of small mammals" on his deck from the feeding

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Local news is reporting that construction has begun on four new new cell towers: Warrensburg, North Hudson, Schroon Falls and Lewis. They are expected to be working by the end of the year. The following list is from a document called "Adirondack Park Agency Status Update on Cellular Projects in the Adirondack Park." It includes the status of cellular carrier projects approved, currently under

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Mammoths roam the valleys, giant sloths clamber up trees and whales swim in from Lake Champlain. It's all part of the Wild Center's new movie that is earning rave reviews for its new take on a rarely seen story. The Wild Center was designed with a showpiece theater. The screen is so wide it requires three projectors working together to create the panoramic effect. This summer the Center raised

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With all the news about Michael Phelps medal wins at the Olympics, some Adirondack Almanack readers may have missed the two tragedies that occurred on Schroon Lake last week. On Sunday night, two boats (both running without navigation lights) collided just before 11 p.m. A Boston Whaler operated by 17-year old Gerald Smith turned in front of a Hydrostream Vector (operated by Brett D. Bernhard,

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The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks believes the adoption of the new state Department of Transportation (DOT) Guidelines for the Adirondack Park - also called the “Green Book” – is a significant step for the protection and sound environmental maintenance of the park’s highways and greenways. Completion of the Green Book and its revisions was one of the primary stipulations of

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Press release forwarded for your information: The Adirondack Museum will host an encampment of American Mountain Men interpreters on August 15 and 16, 2008. The [event is open to the public, but the] encampment is by invitation only. Participants in the museum encampment are from the Brothers of the New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts segment of the national American Mountain

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The Glens Falls Post Star is reporting on recent permits approved for cell towers along the Northway (I-87): The applications recently approved include several Verizon permits in Warrensburg, Chestertown, North Hudson and Schroon Lake. Verizon plans eventually to operate 18 towers near the Northway, from Lake George all the way to Peru, just south of Plattsburgh. Earlier this month, the Park

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Three years ago at Adirondack Almanack we were convinced that Peak Oil had finally arrived and wondering when local media in our region would start reporting on it; we also reported on James Kunstler's visit to Rockhill Bakehouse in Glens Falls. And... we wondered if the crash of a small plane near Ticonderoga was really a murder- suicide.

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Hunters, fishermen, and those interested in taxidermy may find my recent post at New York History interesting. The story includes the "world's largest mounted fish, maybe the largest piece of taxidermy in the world" - a 73-year-old, 32-foot, mounted whale shark caught off Fire Island in 1935 and believed to have weighed about 8 tons (16,000 pounds). It also includes a short history of taxidermy

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Via Press Release: The Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land Trust are holding their Annual Membership Meeting and Field Day on August 16, 2008, at Heaven Hill Farm in Lake Placid, New York. The event, featuring keynote speakers Pete Grannis, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, and Charles D. Canham, Ph.D., Forest Ecologist, is

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