Historic Saranac Lake offers tours, lectures, and other events year-round. New events are being added regularly, so check back often.
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Click the links below to learn more about each event!
Upcoming Holiday Closures:
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- Tuesday, October 26, 1:00PM -- Little Red and Trudeau Statue Tour: Take a tour of one of Saranac Lake's first cure cottages! You will get to go inside Little Red, visit the statue of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, and learn about their history and significance. Advance ticket purchases or RSVPs are required in advance by noon on the Monday before the tour. A maximum of 8 tickets will be available for this tour. Tickets are non-refundable. Masks are required if not vaccinated! Rain or shine. $10/person, children and members of Historic Saranac Lake free. Tickets include same-day admission to the Saranac Laboratory Museum. Reserve tickets here.
- Tuesday, October 26, 6:00PM -- Annual Meeting: Members and those interested in becoming members of Historic Saranac Lake are invited to our Annual Meeting on Zoom! We will give a brief report on the activities and accomplishments of this year. The main topic of the meeting will be the Trudeau Building project, with a special presentation by our historic preservation consultants at Landmark Consulting, LLC. Advance registration is required; a link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to you.
- Thursday, November 4th, 6:00PM on Zoom -- Book Talk: A Prison in the Woods with author Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. Using case studies drawn from the book, the talk will introduce listeners to some of the many ways in which the Adirondack environment proved a pivotal force in the planning, construction, and operation of prisons in northern New York State. Hall will also focus on how the opening of prisons in the North Country—and the incarceration of thousands of men of color in their cells—both scrambled the region’s racial politics and created an important, if largely invisible, environmental legacy. Clarence Jefferson (Jeff) Hall Jr. grew up near Plattsburgh, New York and currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of History at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York and as a visiting instructor in Sustainability Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His research investigates the intersectional histories of environment, race, and incarceration in the U.S. Hall’s first book, A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in November 2020. Register for the Zoom link here.
Humanities New York Speaker Series
This summer and fall we hosted a speaker series supported by Humanities New York on the four topics as they relate to Saranac Lake’s history as a tuberculosis sanatorium community including Cure Porch Architecture, Women in Medical History, Narrative Medicine and Occupational Therapy. If you missed any of this talks, you can view the recordings on our YouTube channel here.
This summer and fall we hosted a speaker series supported by Humanities New York on the four topics as they relate to Saranac Lake’s history as a tuberculosis sanatorium community including Cure Porch Architecture, Women in Medical History, Narrative Medicine and Occupational Therapy. If you missed any of this talks, you can view the recordings on our YouTube channel here.
If you have any questions about events, including directions, please call us at 518-891-4606 or email mail@historicsaranaclake.org. To see Historic Saranac Lake newsletters, press releases, and recent news coverage, visit the Press Page.
