Are We Still in An Ice Age?

Ti Arts: Downtown Gallery 119 Montcalm St, Ticonderoga, NY

Part of Ti Art's The Big Chill Art Show. Lecture by Mike DiMarco, Ph. D. 

Winter Hiking

Ti Arts: Downtown Gallery 119 Montcalm St, Ticonderoga, NY

Part of Ti Art's The Big Chill Art Show. Lecture by Chris Maron, Executive Director of Champlain Area Trails (CATS).

The Art + Science of A Warbler’s Journey

Virtual NY

The Adirondack Land Trust is hosting The Art + Science of _A Warbler’s Journey_ featuring Pulitzer-Prize finalist, renowned ornithologist and author Scott Weidensaul and award-winning illustrator Nancy Lane. In their children’s book _A Warbler’s Journey_, Weidensaul’s story of a tiny warbler’s migration from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra is brought to...

Next Stop, Freedom: The Underground Railroad in the Adirondacks

Chapman Museum 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY

With speaker Maureen Folk, Conversations with the Past Program As slavery continued in many states in the early 1800s, a national effort to safely bring freedomseekers to Canada began. This talk will explore the role the greater Glens Falls region played in this effort and the legacy of the local Underground Railroad. This program is...

Honoring Our Land

Ti Arts: Downtown Gallery 119 Montcalm St, Ticonderoga, NY

Talk by Mike Horn, Executive Director of Lake George Land Conservancy Come and learn from Executive Director Michael Horn how permanent land protection benefits local communities and protects our beautiful Lake George. The Lake George Land Conservancy works to permanently protect the land that protects Lake George. We focus on natural lands that ensure clean...

Lyceum: Wool and Water: Interweaving Art and Science

Whallonsburg Grange 1610 NY-22

Michale Glennon, Senior Research Scientist at Adirondack Watershed Institute and a fiber artist, will discuss "Wool and Water," a collaborative data art project, blending fiber art and scientific data to create visual representations of changing water quality conditions in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Basin. Each piece incorporates a concept or a dataset. Many were...

$5

Lyceum: The Progress Illusion

Whallonsburg Grange 1610 NY-22

Second in the Winter lecture series. Jon Erickson, author of "The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future From the Fairytale of Economics,' will discuss our flawed economic system and the emerging reform effort to create a new economy grounded in the realities of life on a finite planet. Jon is a professor of Sustainablity Science and...

$5

Conversations with the Past

Chapman Museum 348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY

Talk: Lost and Found in Adirondack Memory: An Update from the Timbuctoo Archaeology Project Speaker: Dr. Hadley Kruczek-Aaron In this talk, SUNY Potsdam archaeologist Hadley Kruczek-Aaron will share a behind-the-scenes look at the archaeological research project featured in the recent documentary Searching for Timbuctoo (dir. Paul Miller). She will highlight the stories and experiences of...

Free

SpeakEazy Storytelling Open Mic

Whitcomb's Garage 1598 NYS Route 22, Essex

SpeakEazy Storytelling Open Mic Whitcomb’s at the Grange in Whallonsburg, NY Wednesday, March 8 from 7-9 pm Sign up list opens at 6:45 Everyone has a story to tell, and we want to hear yours. Come and share or just listen as community members and visitors from all walks of life, backgrounds and orientations come...

Free

Lyceum: Farming in a Changing Landscape: A Dialogue About Local Food Systems

Whallonsburg Grange 1610 NY-22

The pandemic and its aftermath brought tremendous changes and new pressures to independent farms in and around the Adirondack region. Rising costs, scarce labor, and shifting demographics and land ownership patterns are changing the ways farms work. Tonight's program will be a panel discussion that looks at what this means for local communities. Panelists are...

$5

Lyceum: Building a Sustainable Future: Preserving What Exists

Whallonsburg Grange 1610 NY-22

This lecture will delve into the importance of historic preservation in building a climate-friendly and sustainable future, from small steps like storm window installation to efforts to address the affordable housing crisis through adaptive reuse and the larger implications of the drive to prioritize new construction over the use and preservation of existing buildings. Presenter...

$5

Lyceum: Uncovering African American History in the Adirondacks

Whallonsburg Grange 1610 NY-22

In this presentation, Paul Smith’s professor Curt Stager shares the research and writing he has been doing on the history of African Americans in the North Country, including mapping the 3,000 lots given by Garret Smith to Black families to settle in the region in the 1850s. He and his wife, Kary Johnson, traveled 5,000...

$5