Heidi Fortsch’s yarn business, Brown Dog Fiber Arts Studio, is her passion. In 2018, she turned about 500 pounds of raw fiber into about 350 pounds of yarn, all from her 600 square foot apartment in Chazy. It all started back in 2012, when Heidi, a knitter of some years, became dissatisfied with the yarn […]
Two workers inspecting pills at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The tools they are holding may be designed to vacuum up pills that don’t pass inspection. 1970s. Rouses Point, NY. Photo courtesy of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society. Geri Favreau went to work for Ayerst in 1967. She worked there for 37 years on the office side […]
Carol Tetreault runs Adirondack Tack in Plattsburgh. She carries horse supplies for local owners and 4-H kids, Western clothing popular with square dancers, and more. She opened the business in 2000.
Nancy Monette worked part-time in the children’s room at the Plattsburgh Public Library. Later, she became a librarian at St. John’s High School, her alma mater, which became Seton Catholic Central High School.
Workers on the packaging line at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The factory was later bought by Pfizer, and the Rouses Point plant closed in 2006. 1980s. Rouses Point, NY. Photo courtesy of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society.
From 1974 to 2004, Ursula Jones worked for the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center. Located in Ogdensburg, the center serviced Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Lewis, St. Lawrence, & Jefferson Counties. She was a community worker who worked with people in the center from Clinton County. One of her jobs was to do discharge planning for people in […]
Workers on the filling line, where pill bottles would have been filled up, at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The factory was later bought by Pfizer, and the Rouses Point plant closed in 2006. 1980s. Rouses Point, NY.
Men and women at work on a packaging line at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The factory was later bought by Pfizer, and the Rouses Point plant closed in 2006. 1980s. Rouses Point, NY. Photo courtesy of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society.
Michele Carpentier is the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at SUNY Plattsburgh. An important aspect of her job is running different programs for disadvantaged students. One of the programs that sticks out in her mind is the campus food shelf. Listen to Carpentier explain how they got the campus food shelf started.
Jane Desotelle owns Underwood Herbs, where she sells herbs at local farmers’ markets. She actually helped get those farmers markets started, and now she’s the Executive Director of the Adirondack Farmers Market Cooperative. She lives in the same property where she grew up in Plattsburgh, where her mother first taught her to pick herbs and […]
