In the Adirondack Library

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Each month, selected authors will provide a brief overview of their work, followed by insightful interviews with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program will conclude with a Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to engage directly with the authors.

Episodes

  1. Apr 7

    The First Adirondackers, by Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden

    Curt and David provide a brief overview of their work, followed by an insightful interview with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program concludes with a Q&A session with the live audience. The First Adirondackers reaches far beyond the familiar timelines of settlement to tell a deeper story of the Adirondacks – one that has been shaped by an Indigenous presence for more than 12,000 years. Blending scientific insight with Indigenous knowledge and storytelling, the book reveals how Native peoples lived with, learned from, and stewarded this landscape across countless generations. Through changing climates, waterways, and lifeways, authors Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden illuminate a history that has too often been overlooked or simplified. The Adirondacks emerge not as an untouched wilderness, but as a homeland rich with memory, meaning, and continuity. The First Adriondackers invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the region and the enduring relationship between people and place.

    1h 4m

  2. Mar 3

    Calculated Risk, by Jennifer Denny

    Jennifer provides a brief overview of her work, followed by an insightful interview with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program concludes with a Q&A session with the live audience.

    59 min

  3. Jan 7

    John Brown in New York, Sandra Weber

    With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story of sublime scenery and human rights concentrates on John's relationships with his family and black neighbors, which brings forth the essence of the man: his inner self, moral fiber, and principles. Weber reveals a vital piece of the John Brown story.Sandra provides a brief overview of her work, followed by an insightful interview with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program concludes with a Q&A session with the live audience.

    1h 3m

  4. 12/03/2025

    The Nature of the Place, Ed Kanze

    The Nature of the Place is storied Adirondack nature writer Edward Kanze’s invitation to slow down, smell the roses, and get to know fellow creatures with more longstanding claims to this landscape than we have.Ed provides a brief overview of his work, followed by an insightful interview with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program concludes with a Q&A session with the live audience.

    1h 1m

  5. 10/21/2025

    Wild Forest Lands, by Phil Terrie

    Acclaimed historian and author Phil Terrie, has spent more than 50 years exploring the meaning of wilderness in the Adirondacks—both in archives and in the woods. Terrie will discuss his newest book, Wild Forest Lands, a blend of memoir, New York history, and meditation that revisits the region’s literature and history while reflecting on how his own views have evolved. Rich with detail, his work grapples with the enduring power of the Adirondacks and what it truly means to preserve something wild. Program recorded on Monday, October 5, 2025.

    58 min
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Each month, selected authors will provide a brief overview of their work, followed by insightful interviews with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program will conclude with a Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to engage directly with the authors.

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