Perspective: The forest preserve’s expanding size and role
By Philip Terrie
November 10, 2023
New York has been a leader in conservation since the 1880s
Philip Terrie
Philip Terrie is an Adirondack and environmental historian, and the author of five books on regional history, including Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (2nd ed., Syracuse UP, 2008) and Seeing the Forest: Reviews, Musings, and Opinions from an Adirondack Historian (Saranac Lake: Adirondack Explorer, 2017).
Opening the art vault
By Philip Terrie
September 23, 2023
A new exhibit showcases some of the highlights of Adirondack Experience's extensive collection
A scarred landscape
By Philip Terrie
October 15, 2022
Aerial photographs document humans' impact on Adirondacks
From Haystack to Nye, 100 years later
By Philip Terrie
November 25, 2021
Bob Marshall’s pamphlet of the peaks nears centennial
Relic of a revered guide
By Philip Terrie
August 29, 2021
Adirondack Experience acquires pistol of legendary Long Laker Mitchell Sabattis
A park like no other
By Philip Terrie
April 18, 2021
Decades of experience suggest the state needs to do more to protect shorelines, uplands, and the privately owned backcountry
Park logging lore
By Philip Terrie
November 30, 2020
“Adirondack Timber Cruising” reads like gabbing with old loggers The contents of William O’Hern’s “Adirondack Timber Cruising” are a treasure, the packaging not so much. Plagued by many of the problems of self-published books taken to press without the intervention of an editor or designer, it offers no introduction to explain the book’s aim, with…
The roots of modern-day Adirondack Park took shape 50 years ago
By Philip Terrie
November 9, 2020
The final report of the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks (TSC) ushered in the modern era of Adirondack history.
‘Murray’s Fools’ at 150
By Philip Terrie
November 29, 2019
As New York becomes more diverse, as languages other than English are spoken in every New York county, the Adirondack wilderness needs a constituency of everyone.
Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History
By Philip Terrie
November 1, 2017
The history of the Adirondacks, as it’s usually presented, is blindingly white. Nearly all of our stories—logging, tourism, the Saranac Lake TB nexus, you name it—have familiar iterations, and they seem to involve only white people. Reading, or hearing, these often-repeated narratives, you might wonder if an African-American ever crossed the Blue Line. Sally Svenson…