Lilias Wrisley Bartlett ran a boarding house in her home in Lewis from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Lilias did all the cooking and cleaning, while her husband Frank tended the farm. The house is still there today, across from Barber’s Pond in Lewis. Here Linda Jackson, Lilias’ granddaughter, shares her stories of […]
Linda Jackson was born in Elizabethtown in 1949. After she got married, she decided to stay home to raise her four children. Later, she found a job as a caseworker at the Department of Social Services, then moved up through the ranks and became supervisor. She says it was a tough job with a lot […]
Jim Bailey is a retired teacher who lives in Plattsburgh with his wife, Anne. When Jim was five, his father died and he was sent to live with his grandparents, Edith & George Brown, who lived in Elizabethtown. George was a local postmaster and the newspaper editor for the Essex Record Post, and Edith was […]
Whitney Jackson’s very first gig was delivering newspapers for the Press Republican in Elizabethtown in the 1990s. She inherited the route from her older brother, who started it because their mother decided he needed to learn responsibility. Eventually, the job got passed to the rest of the Jackson siblings – with their parents’ help driving […]
The job of town supervisor is technically to be the town’s financial officer and to attend state meetings – but Noel Merrihew says there’s also a lot of work on the ground. Merrihew has been the town supervisor for Elizabethtown on and off since 2002. He describes some of the behind-the-scenes work he does to […]
Herbert Savel has been a general practitioner since he moved to Elizabethtown from Burlington in 1971. Before that, he was an oncologist, but he says general medicine keeps him on his toes. It can be unpredictable, and making lot of house calls and getting close with his patients means he can take a more holistic […]
A worker at the Essex County Clerk’s office helping someone with paperwork. The clerk’s office helps with everything from passports to county records to pistol permits. 2019. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Joe Provoncha. Joe Provoncha has served as the Essex County Clerk for 28 years. Listen to his story in the audio clip!
An employee of the Deer’s Head Inn, Zach Jackson, rolling homemade pasta through a machine in the kitchen. 2018. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Wyatt Jackson. Wyatt Jackson is a cook & manager at the Deer’s Head Inn. Listen to his story at one of our listening stations!
Artist Dan Keegan mounting one of his drawings, “Forest Inversion,” at an exhibit at the Adirondack History Museum. Keegan’s main medium is graphite drawings. May 25, 2019. Elizabethtown, NY. Photo taken by Amy Feiereisel.
Lumberjack Philip Jackson operating a 1978 John Deere 440C skidder. In the foreground is Jack Pulsifer. The skidder is on top of a pile of large, soft maple logs cut close to the Boquet River. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV. Jackson says he’s been logging for about 66 years. Listen […]
