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!
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- Thursday February 3, 6:00PM on Zoom -- Book Talk: Place of treatment, place of isolation, place of community: the Sanatorium in Context, Tegan Kehoe In this talk, public historian Tegan Kehoe will share stories from her book Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures. The book presents a history of health and medicine through the lens of historic sites and artifacts in museums around the country. She will focus on her chapter on Saranac Lake, comparing and contrasting the patient experience with other sites of medical care. Tegan Kehoe is a public historian specializing in healthcare and science. She is the Exhibit and Education Specialist at the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her projects there have ranged from an exhibit that used xylophones to explain how anesthesia affects the brain, to a display of the personal items belonging to a WWI nurse. Kehoe’s research interests include material culture and interpretation strategies in the history of medicine and the history of scientific study methodologies. She received her M.A. in History and Museum Studies from Tufts University. This presentation is one in a series of programs supported by Humanities New York. Register for the Zoom Link Here.
- Further Details Coming Soon -- Exploring Vaccine Resistance Past and Present, Deborah Brown In this talk, Deborah Brown, Ph.D. will discuss popular resistance to vaccines and other public health measures using past and present infectious disease pandemics as a backdrop. She will discuss some of the public health measures and mandates disseminated during tuberculosis, the 1918 Influenza pandemic, the polio epidemic, and our current SARS CoV-2 pandemic, and the often present public pushback against these measures. Vaccine resistance is not a new phenomenon and approaches to increase public trust in science and enhance science literacy will be examined.
Humanities New York Speaker Series
This past 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 past 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.
