Jacques Suzanne, wearing a fur coat, lying in the snow beside a team of dogs harnessed to a sled. 1930-1950. Lake Placid, NY. Inscription reads: “To my friend Noah John Rondeau.” Rondeau was known as the Adirondack hermit. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Dogsled team in Lake Placid with mountain in the background. Three people are in the sled, two people behind it. Photograph by Alfred W. Santway. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Dogsled team on the edge of a field. Photograph by Alfred W. Santway. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Using horse drawn ore carts, men mine garnets in winter at Barton Mines. Workers, bundled up in winter clothing, shovel garnet ore into a two-wheeled cart pulled by a horse. Two other horses wait with a stone boat to pull more loads. Circa 1910. Barton Mines, North River, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Alan Washbond and Ivan Brown posing with the Olympic bobsled they built. The pair won the gold medal at the winter Olympics in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Photo courtesy of the Keene Valley Library Archives. Alan Washbond was Hope Stone and Charity Marlatt’s father. Listen to their memories of their father’s victory here.
Men load logs onto flatbed train cars using a coal-fired Barnhart steam loader mounted on a flatcar. Logs in the foreground, Red Onion Boarding House and horse barn in the background. 1900- 1920. Newton Falls, NY.
Jabaut Ice Company man operating an ice cutting machine. The photo is believed to have been taken on Plattsburgh Bay where ice was often harvested. Jabaut Ice Company operated until about 1928. Circa 1910-1920. Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.
Construction site at Kent Falls Dam System Properties Inc. on the Saranac River between Cadyville and Morrisonville. The project was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Photo circa 1930s. Near Morrisonville in Town of Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection
Construction at Kent Falls Dam System Properties Inc. on the Saranac River between Cadyville and Morrisonville. The project was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Photo circa 1930s. Near Morrisonville in the Town of Plattsburgh. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.
Grooming the trails at Lapland Lake. Olavi Hirvonen is operating the machine. 2015. Photo taken by Paul Zahray. Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center is based in the tiny town of Benson. Paul and Kathy Zahray work together to keep the ski resort they own and operate up and running. Listen to their story here.
