North Country At Work

A worker, Kathy, taking muffins out of a tin in the kitchen of the Deer’s Head Inn. 2018. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Wyatt Jackson.

Two owners of the Deer’s Head Inn, Rob DeMuro (with his back to the camera) and Aaron Woolf, making a bed at the inn. Circa 2015. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Wyatt Jackson.

Barbers helping customers at a barbershop. A large group of customers stands clustered in the background. Note the sink in the back left. There are early electric light fixtures hanging from the ceiling. Circa 1930- 1940. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Two workers in a barbershop helping customers. The barbershop was located in the Pervonga & Trudeau building. The decorations suggest the photo was taken sometime around the fourth of July. Circa 1900. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

The exterior of the Iroquois Hotel, with people posing on the first and second floors and in the car out front. Circa 1910. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Former ski instructor Natalie Leduc skiing at Whiteface. Circa 1980. Wilmington, NY. Courtesy of Natalie Leduc. During the five decades of her working life, Saranac Lake native Natalie Leduc wore a lot of hats: ski, instructor, substitute physical education teacher, rug salesman, lifeguard, swimming instructor, and finally real estate agent. Listen to the highs and […]

When Fobare’s first husband was finishing up his schooling in Louisiana, she had to work to support them. Even though she didn’t have a high school diploma, she got a job working for a Certified Public Accountant who said he would teach her everything she needed to know. She learned to work as an accountant, […]

Employees for the Woods Laundry & Dry-Cleaning company on High Street. Pictured are: Larry Wood (driving the horses), Ernie Wood (standing next to the horses), Red Gilbert (running board of the truck), Ernest Trudeau (running board back). Pictured standing: Ernest Reando, Edith Scanlon Johnson, Mrs. Frank Wood, Frank Wood, Gert Ellis, Aldea Reando, and Leo […]

The Board of Directors for the Tupper Lake National Bank. Pictured are: Macel Richer, Bud Murray, Ray McGill, John Littlefield, Dr. Carl Fenton, Darwin Ginsel, Frank Bincze, Sam Parmalee, John Hosley, Leroy Pickering, Stuart Nichols, and Peter Day. 197os or ’80s. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.

Buses parked outside the Tri-Lakes Bus Company at Northland Garage on Main Street. Circa 1960. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library.