Catherine “Cat” Bennett posing with freshly dug fingerling potatoes. She runs an heirloom and fingerling potato farm called Milkweed Tussock Tubers that focuses on environmentally friendly farming. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. 2017. De Peyster, NY. Check out our story on Cat and her farm.
Man next to the upper cow pasture at Thompson farm, which kept registered Holstein cattle. Lisbon, NY. Courtesy of Bob Thompson. For more on the Thompson cattle operation, click here.
Kyle Henderson, Senior groundskeeper at Clarkson University. Kyle has worked at Clarkson for five years. Photographer is Sophie McKibben. 2015. Potsdam, NY.
Alice Keough standing in front of her summer motel. She started by converting a barn into a cottage and just kept building. Alice made all the curtains, bedspreads, and did the interior decorating. She was one of the first businesswomen in Saranac Lake. Around 1930. Saranac Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of Ronald Keough. For more […]
Two digs from Archeology students at SUNY Potsdam were done at the Wilder Homestead in Burke, NY. The homestead was the boyhood home of Almanzo Wilder, husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder and is owned by the Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association. Wilder was the author of the Little House on the Prairie series of […]
Workers connect pipes during construction of the Iroquois Pipeline. The line was built to transport natural gas from Canada to downstate New York. The company brought in its own construction companies to do the work. Lots of forest had to be cleared to make room for the pipe line. Summer of 1991. Hermon, NY.
Workers fill bags with earth during construction of the Iroquois Pipeline, and stack the filled bags on a trailer. The Iroquois Pipeline was built to transport natural gas from Canada to downstate New York. The company brought in its own construction companies to do the work. Lots of forest had to be cleared to make room for the […]
Workers fill bags with earth during construction of the Iroquois Pipeline. The line was built to transport natural gas from Canada to downstate New York. The company brought in its own construction companies to do the work. Lots of forest had to be cleared to make room for the pipe line. Summer of 1991. Hermon, NY.
Stacked boxes of produce stand next to a barn. Two people in background are sorting or grading onions. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.
A man preparing the ground for planting on a farm field in Hermon. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.
