Blanch Siskavich worked as a nurse for 37 years at the Clifton-Fine Hospital in Star Lake, NY. She says the 20-bed hospital is the smallest in New York, which comes with its own unique challenges and rewards. Listen to Blanch’s story here.
Forest Ranger Bernard Siskavitch at the site of forest wildfire. May 5, 1999. Rossi, NY. Photo courtesy of Bernard Siskavich. Bernard Siskavich is a retired forest ranger with the Department of Environmental Conservation. His job included forest fire prevention and suppression, search and rescue, and routine patrols of state land. In 1976, when he moved […]
Mountain House/Home, after it was rebuilt when the original burned down. It was a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. MacAleese. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Clifton, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Clifton Museum. The year before Carol Opdyke’s sophomore year of college, she lived with family in Cranberry Lake and […]
Two employees operating paper roll machinery inside the Newton Falls Paper Mill. Circa 1940s or 1950s. Newton Falls. Photo courtesy of the Town of Clifton Museum, from the Ernie Bognar Collection, as furnished through the courtesy of Randy Clark. Wayne Morrow started working at the Newton Falls paper Company in 1936 and retired in 1978. […]
Reverend Dr. Daniel Ferguson stands by the pulpit in Hammond’s Presbyterian Church. He was pastor for nearly 50 years. Circa 1923. Hammond, NY. Listen to Nancy Seeley, Revered Ferguson’s granddaughter, on her family’s stories about the Reverend, including about how he got parishioners to his island home, the church burning in 1915, his hectic Sunday service […]
Nate Hosley was born in Long Lake and recently moved back after living in California. He owns hotels and restaurants with his two brothers and a college friend. They bought the Park and the Longview Lodge in 2017, and they’re working on renovating them to fit their modern Adirondack vision. Interviewed on May 31, 2018. […]
Joyce Bozak on her family’s business, Bozak & Sons, a garage and used car dealership for which she has been the bookkeeper since its opening in 1982. The division of labor was: her husband sold the used cars, her son did the repairs, and she kept the numbers straight. Interviewed on May 31, 2018. Long […]
Garth Fisher on working at the transfer station in Long Lake – he worked there from the 1980s until 2016. Recorded May 31, 2018. Long Lake, NY.
Listen to Bill Moore talk about running a Bed and Breakfast from his home. Recorded May 31, 2018. Long Lake, NY.
Guide in guideboats with passengers on Raquette Lake. Circa 1890-1910. Raquette Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives. Listen to Frank Pine, Long Lake resident, talk about guide boats in the Adirondacks, recorded in May 2018 in Long Lake.
