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Our Summer Tour Schedule is Here!

4/30/2019

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Our summer tour schedule is available now! We hope you'll be able to join us on one of our regular tours this summer. Tours take place on Wednesdays at 10:30AM unless otherwise noted, and cost $5/person. Children under the age of 18 and members of Historic Saranac Lake are free! Click on the title of each tour below to learn more! We hope to see you soon!
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  • Wednesday, June 5: Trudeau Sanatorium Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, June 12: Historic Downtown Walking Tour
  • Saturday, June 15: Lake Flower Bartók Walking Tour - Path Through History Weekend
  • Wednesday, June 10: Cure Cottage Museum Tour
  • Wednesday, June 26: Little Red and the Trudeau Statue Tour
  • Wednesday, July 3: Trudeau Sanatorium Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, July 10: Historic Downtown Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, July 17: Cure Cottage Museum Tour
  • Wednesday, July 24: Little Red and the Trudeau Statue Tour
  • Wednesday, August 7: Trudeau Sanatorium Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, August 14: Historic Downtown Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, August 21: Cure Cottage Museum Tour
  • Wednesday, August 28: Little Red and the Trudeau Statue Tour
  • Wednesday, September 4: Trudeau Sanatorium Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, September 11: Historic Downtown Walking Tour
  • Wednesday, September 18: Cure Cottage Museum Tour 
  • Wednesday, September 25: Little Red and the Trudeau Statue Tour
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National Volunteer Month!

4/29/2019

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April is National Volunteer Month, so we want to say THANK YOU to all of our amazing volunteers who are always willing to lend a hand around the Museum! From gardening, to issuing membership cards, from dusting exhibits, to planning galas, from marching in the Winter Carnival parade, to building the Cure Porch on Wheels, we know we can always count on your support! We can't possibly fit everyone in one image, but we want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts! Do you want to volunteer with HSL? Fill out our volunteer form on our website and we'll be in touch!
Volunteer with us!
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Our wonderful HSL volunteers!
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Tuberculosis Thursday: Scholfield Memorial Workshop

4/25/2019

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April is Occupational Therapy Month, and our Art of the Cure Exhibit opens in just two months! Did you know that the Scholfield Memorial Workshop at Trudeau Sanatorium may have been the first time that occupational therapy was used for mentally well patients? Dr. Lawrason Brown implemented the use of occupational therapy for TB patients at Trudeau Sanatorium, and patients had the opportunity to study a range of handicrafts from leatherwork, bookbinding, photography, basket-weaving, decorative work, and more!

The Scholfield Memorial Workshop was built in 1909 as a gift of Mrs. Walter L. Goodwin. It was named for Herbert L. Scholfield, a patient and skilled craftsperson. In this image, patients in the Workshop practice weaving as part of their treatment at the Sanatorium.

In “Portrait of Healing,” Victoria Rhinehart described the possible origins of occupational therapy as such: “The true origin of occupational therapy remains open for some dispute. Numerous sources credit Dr. Brown for its birth at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in 1904. A more accurate statement would be to credit Dr. Brown, certainly as the first who created the concept of outdoor occupational therapy, and likely the first to utilize occupational therapy with tuberculosis patients, and perhaps the first to use occupational therapy with patients who were mentally well. The actual origin of using this type of therapy on a patient population came well before Dr. Brown's time. . . . Susan E. Tracy, who organized occupational therapy classes in her training school for nurses at the Adams Nervine Asylum in 1906, was considered to be the first occupational therapist. However, as the work of Dr. Brown, with his occupational therapy experiment with tuberculosis patients in 1903 to 1904, predates the work of Susan Tracy and others, there is some merit to sources that credit Brown with the birth of modern occupational therapy.”

To learn more about the Workshop, visit our wiki!

And be sure to stay tuned for more on our upcoming special exhibit, Art of the Cure, which highlights TB patient artists, writers, musicians, architects, and more! Art of the Cure will open in late June 2019.

Learn more about the Scholfield Memorial Workshop!
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Event: Trudeau Building Closing Day Celebration!

4/22/2019

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Tuesday, April 30: 5:00PM -- All are invited to come celebrate our ownership of the Trudeau building at 118 Main Street. We will sign the papers to close on the building and then open the champagne!

Come enjoy a glass of champagne while supplies last from 5:00 to 5:30, in the John Black Room at the Saranac Laboratory Museum. We will gather for a group photo in front of the new sign at 118 Main Street at 5:30 sharp!
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Thank you, interns!

4/19/2019

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Clockwise from top: Rosemary and Sarah look over artifacts in the collection; Connor, Johanna, Museum Administrator Chessie, and Dana pose in front of the Saranac Laboratory; Joseph processes a recent donation; Sarah and Rhiannon show off Little Red; Clara rehouses photographs; and Mary and Natalie pose at the Museum.
As we mentioned yesterday, April is National Internship Awareness Month, so we just wanted to take a minute to give a shout out to all the awesome interns we've had here at HSL since we started our internship program in 2015. To Johanna, Connor, Dana, Mary, Natalie, Joseph, Sarah, Rhiannon, Rosemary, and Clara - we appreciate all of the enthusiasm, knowledge, goofiness, friendliness, flexibility, and all-around positive attitude that you brought to your time here at the Museum.

We can't wait to see where your love for history takes you!

And to those of you who might be (or know) future HSL interns - we'll be announcing the details of our 2019 summer internships soon (online and in school) so stay tuned!

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Tuberculosis Thursday: National Internship Awareness Month

4/18/2019

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Did you know that (among many other topics) April is National Internship Awareness Month? For Tuberculosis Thursday, we wanted to share this great photograph of summer interns and staff at Trudeau Sanatorium in 1953. This photograph was in our collection, but we didn't know much about the individuals pictured beyond Drs. Meade and Mitchell. Luckily, Bernice Wylie (then Russell) stumbled across the photograph on our wiki and supplied the following information about it!

"Seated, from left, Dr. Gordon Meade, Dr. Roger Mitchell, the woman doctor was from New York City doing a short post-graduate course, the others are unknown. The back row were five third year medical students on a program of six weeks duration. From left: Lansing C. Hoskins, Bernice Russell (now Wylie), unknown, Clay E. Phillips Jr., unknown. The interns were entering their final year of medicine at the University of Rochester, except for Bernice Russell who was at the University of Toronto Medical School."
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[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR #226]
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Bernice also said, "thank you for uploading this picture. It was quite a surprise to find it as I was just reminiscing to myself about the wonderful summer of training and terrific patients and Staff I met while in Saranac."

Have you explored our wiki lately to see if you can add any information about Saranac Lake history? Visit our wiki to share what you know!
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Upcoming Event: National Register Information Session - 4/23

4/17/2019

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Tuesday, April 23, 5:30-6:30PM: National Register Information Session -- We will host an information session about the State and National Historic Registers. See flyer. Over 230 local properties are listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, including the downtown Berkeley Square Historic District (proposed for expansion), Church Street Historic District, Cottage Row, Helen Hill, Highland Park, Trudeau Sanatorium, and other individual properties and cure cottages. 

​Find out answers to questions like, "What is the National Register?" "How can I benefit from the program?" and "What are the guidelines for building repairs?" Call or email with any questions!
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Museum Monday: Baldwin Family Papers

4/15/2019

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It’s Museum Monday, so we want to share the news of an exciting collections donation we received this week! On Thursday, we were honored to receive six boxes of materials from the Baldwin Family. You may recognize the Baldwin name from last week’s Tuberculosis Thursday post about Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, but the collection also contains papers, photographs, journals, correspondence, and more from Mary Ives Baldwin, Ernest H. Baldwin, and Anne Leonard.

As we shared on Thursday, Dr. Baldwin was a close friend and colleague of Dr. E.L. Trudeau, and was the Director of the Saranac Laboratory. Mary Baldwin was the wife of Dr. Baldwin, and was active in local civic and philanthropic organizations, including the Village Improvement Society. Mary was also a talented photographer. Ernest Baldwin was Dr. Baldwin’s brother, and together with his wife, Anne Leonard, founded the Baldwin School in 1907. Ernest was also the first director of the Saranac Lake Free Library in 1907.

The collection was donated by Barbara Baldwin Knapp, Dr. Baldwin’s granddaughter, with assistance and accompaniment by her son and daughter, Gunnar and Tina (pictured in front of the Baldwin House). This donation is a thrilling addition to the collections here at the Saranac Laboratory Museum, and we can’t wait to share the contents (and future additions!) with you as we process them!

We want to share just a few snapshots of items from the collection, starting with photographs of Dr. Baldwin as a scientist, father, and outdoorsman; correspondence from Dr. Baldwin to his son Henry and his membership certificate for the Stevenson Society of America; travel medicine kits (including this one with Dr. Baldwin’s handwritten instructions); photographs and pamphlets from the Baldwin School; a travel diary from Mary Baldwin’s (pictured) trip to Europe in 1924; and photographs of Saranac Lake life (including Winter Carnival scenes) from a scrapbook from the 1910s.

Thank you to the Baldwin Family for their generosity and hard work in preserving (especially Gunnar!) and sharing this fascinating material with us!

To learn more about the Baldwin Family, visit our wiki!
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Learn more about the Baldwin Family!
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Tuberculosis Thursday: Dr. Edward R. Baldwin

4/11/2019

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Our Tuberculosis Thursday this week is also a teaser for some exciting news we'll share on Monday!

Today's feature is Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, who was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau. Baldwin graduated from Yale Medical School in 1890, and interned at Hartford Hospital. When he developed tuberculosis, he applied for entry to the Trudeau Sanatorium. Trudeau was astonished when Baldwin indicated that he knew that he had tuberculosis because he had discovered the bacillus using his microscope, as the information on how to do so was quite new. Trudeau invited him to work in his laboratory, and Baldwin and Trudeau exchanged the latest French and German medical literature on the disease. Baldwin moved into a house across the street from Trudeau's house and lab, known since as the Baldwin House.

Among his many other accomplishments, Baldwin was appointed Assistant, and later Director, of the new Saranac Laboratory. After Trudeau's death, he was elected chair of the executive committee of the Trudeau Sanatorium. In 1916, he started the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis; later the same year he founded the Edward Livingston Trudeau Foundation with Dr. Walter B. James, an endowment for tuberculosis research.

To learn more about Dr. Baldwin, visit our wiki!

And stay tuned on Monday for news of an exciting donation!
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