North Country At Work

Michelle Bush bottles and caps apple cider for sale. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. 2017. Norfolk, NY. Check out our story on the cider business here.

Martin Bregg fills a bottle with apple cider from the cider press. He presses cider using apples from Canton Apples in Canton and sells it locally. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. 2017. Norfolk, NY. Check out our story on the cider business here.

Martin Bregg puts apples into a grinder in Norfolk. This is a stage in the process of making apple cider, which he sells locally. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. 2017. Norfolk, NY. Check out our story on the cider business here.

Michelle Bush washes and inspects apples for making cider. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. 2017. Norfolk, NY. Check out our story on the cider business here.

The interior of the poultry processing plant owned by the McCarthy family of Canton. Circa 1950s. Canton, NY. Photo courtesy of Varick Chittenden. Check out our story on the evolution of the McCarthy poultry plant.

Bob Thompson with a registered black model Holstein cow. He kept a herd on his farm and sold surplus cows internationally. 1945. Lisbon, NY. Courtesy of Bob Thompson. For Bob Thompson’s full story, click here.

Amber LaBaff has worked for five years at Clarkson University in various positions. Here she’s working at the campus coffee shop. Photographer is Sophie McKibben. 2015. Potsdam, NY.

Nate Derushia, electrician at Clarkson University. Photographer is Sophie McKibben. 2015. Potsdam, NY.

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 […]