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Welcome Amanda!

12/10/2021

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Give a warm welcome to Amanda Franzoni! Amanda is working with us as a temporary Museum Assistant to help manage our collections. She will be helping with research requests, processing new donations to the collection, and helping prepare collections materials for the eventual move to the Trudeau Building. Have a research request? You may just be hearing from Amanda!
Amanda has a Master's in Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management and most recently worked at Paul Smith's College. Prior to moving to Saranac Lake in 2017, Amanda worked in archaeology and museum collections at such varied sites as Fort Ticonderoga, Monticello, and the NYS Museum. She believes that collections can bridge the gap between communities and their cultural memories by making history come to life. Amanda lives on Helen Hill with her husband Alec, their cats Poppy and Oscar, and a gecko named Gilderoy.
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Event: North Country Showcase

12/8/2021

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NOTE: This event is hosted by the Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN) and any registration/questions should go through them. Learn more and register here.

Researchers, genealogists, students, teachers, and the general public are invited to take part in the NNYLN's North Country Showcase on Friday, 12/17 at 11AM!

This month, HSL Archivist / Curator Chessie Monks-Kelly will share collections that document the history of research at the Saranac Laboratory. The Saranac Laboratory was built in 1894 for Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau; it was the first laboratory in the United States for the study of tuberculosis. Although the laboratory’s initial and main purpose was to study TB, the scientists working there examined many related subjects throughout its 70-year history, including the effects of asbestos on the human body.

Historic Saranac Lake has recently received two important collections that shed light on the history of the Saranac Laboratory and the work carried out there.

First, the papers of Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, who was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Trudeau, and started the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis in 1916. These collections reflect Dr. Baldwin’s personal and professional life in Saranac Lake and shed light on the work at the Saranac Laboratory around the time of Dr. Trudeau’s death.
The second collection is the Bristol Family papers. This collection is primarily made up of Dr. Leonard Bristol’s reports, research notes, and more created during his work as a radiologist at the Saranac Laboratory. Dr. Bristol’s radiologic work included a 1940s study commissioned by the Johns Manville Corporation on asbestos; he was often called to testify in asbestos litigation cases.

Both of these collections have fascinating research possibilities across many subjects and highlight the legacy of the work conducted at the Saranac Laboratory. In this session, Monks-Kelly will share more about the contents of these two collections and how to use them, and provide a general overview of HSL’s fascinating records of the tuberculosis industry in Saranac Lake.
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Visiting the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center

12/3/2021

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This week we enjoyed visiting with John Fadden at the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center in Onchiota. John provided a tour of his family's wonderful museum, and we brainstormed about our upcoming short film about the history of the Saranac Lake region. This project is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Rescue Act Grant.

Pictured left to right: Kirk Peterson, filmmaker, John Fadden leader of the Six Nations Museum, Amy Catania, Executive Director of Historic Saranac Lake, Lauren Gulbicki HSL winter intern from St. Lawrence University, and Mahala Nyberg, Historic Saranac Lake Public Programs Coordinator.

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Image of the Week: Snow

12/1/2021

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December is here, bringing snowy weather with it! This photograph of a Village snowplow tackling the snow along Moody Pond shows that some things never change. We don't know the date of this photograph - do you recognize anything about the style of this truck that might help us date the image?

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