Families and other visitors with children should look for Activity Sheets in five exhibits - scavenger hunts designed to promote discovery and discussion. At the Rising School House look for games and amusements that engaged Adirondack children a century ago. In the months of July and August, museum educators will be available in the gallery spaces with artifacts to touch, and stories to share with young visitors. Schedules are posted in the admission area. Milda Burns shares memories of the life and work of her father -Jack Donohue of North River, New York, on log dams along the Hudson River from Mt. Marcy to the Big Boom.
Admission is charged.
When the temperature drops and the snow piles up, human residents of the North Country stoke woodstoves and wear wool. Admission is charged. The Age of Horses in the Adirondacks. Logging in the Adirondacks. Marty Podskoch presents the history of fire towers in the North Country and the stories of the men and women who worked as observers and forest rangers at those towers.