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[toadstoolgardens]

Set of Saranac Lake postcards, Adirondack Mountains, NY

Curt Teich & Co., 1941

#vintage postcards #Saranac Lake #Adirondacks #Curt Teich

[historicsaranaclake]

Once in a Lifetime by Amy Catania

Last week I drove from Saranac Lake to Mansfield, Ohio, tracing the path of totality to visit the grave of John Baxter Black.

John Black was born on this day in 1896, and he lived for just 27 years. He died of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake 101 years ago, but here at the museum he feels like an old friend. We see his portrait every day, and we’ve read his letters from Europe during the first World War. A century after his death, John's story links us to another time and place.

History connects people, and so do rare events like total solar eclipses. The wobbly axes of the moon and earth have to align perfectly, and you have to be in just the right place at the right time. The last total solar eclipse occurred in Saranac Lake 675 years ago. After April 8, we’ll have to wait 375 years to see the next one here.

[Read the full post on our blog at the link in bio!] The last major (although not quite total) eclipse came over Saranac Lake in 1925, two years after John Black died. The newspaper reported, “the beauty of the Adirondack country as revealed by these conditions was beyond description.” TB patients observed the sky from their porches at the Trudeau Sanatorium, protecting their eyes with "darkened bits of glass and old camera plates and films." Hundreds listened to a special radio program broadcasting reactions to the big event.

We no longer gather together around the radio, but collectively we sense something magical is about to happen. Each town between here and Ohio is conjuring a pot of gold on the other side of the moon’s shadow. Billboards seek to attract hordes of tourists, from Cleveland’s “A Blackout to Remember” to Watertown's "Total Eclipse of the Park."

Tupper Lake is one of the smaller communities in the path of totality, but it boasts one of the best marketing campaigns, "Totality in Tupper." With their new observatory, Tupper Lakers are well-positioned to pay attention to the sky. And observatory board president Seth McGowan has helped stir up excitement, having personally witnessed this country’s last total eclipse in Tennessee in 2017.

Seth describes experiencing a wonderful sense of unity among the crowd of onlookers at the last eclipse. He also warns about the chaos that ensued when over 116,000 people descended on Hopkinsville, TN (population 30,600). Seth explains, “You need to pay attention to the three T’s — transportation, trash, and toilets.”

In these divisive times, it can be hard to embrace strangers or even neighbors, especially when you are worrying about the three T’s. On my way to Ohio, I passed through one community after another where eclipse advertising competes with strident political yard signs as the country gears up for another national election. Perhaps our fascination with the eclipse is, to some degree, a response to our fractured society. Wearing our special glasses, we eagerly turn our heads towards a phenomenon greater than the forces that divide us.

As I drove home from Ohio, I thought about the pull of the eclipse and the power of history. The total eclipse will happen only once in our lifetime. It probably won't make us rich or heal our society. But as we gather in the path of totality, we might share a sense of the history that binds us. We might just look up and notice each other.

For Andy Pederson.

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Historic Saranac Lake

#vintage #Historic Saranac Lake

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Saranac Lake Dog Park Committee seeks help, ideas | News, Sports, Jobs

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Saranac Lake Dog Park Committee seeks help, ideas | News, Sports, Jobs

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Dog Park Committee for More Contented Canines is springing into action so resident and visiting pooches can cavort unfettered in their very own park. Volunteers are needed to clear and clean the chosen site (off Ampersand Avenue, near the Elk’s Field and the Pump Track) and to […]

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[fallauween]

Saranac Lake, New York — by mspix_

#new york #new england #Photography #Autumn #Autumn Aesthetic #Autumncore #Fall Aesthetic #Autumn Cozy #Fall Blog #Autumn Blog

[kafkasapartment]

"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me.

"From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. Your counter-arguments seem to me very correct and could hardly be better formulated. it is always misleading to use anthropomorphical concepts in dealing with things outside the human sphere - childish analogies. We have to admire in humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of this world - as far as we can grasp it. And that is all."

Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Ensign Guy H. Raner Jr., explaining the nature of his personal atheism and belief in God. Bond typing paper with Einstein's embossed Princeton address at head but typed by Einstein himself at Knollwood, Saranac Lake, New York, 2 July 1945,

#Albert Einstein #history #science #Religion #philosophy #letters #mail #1940s #logic #beliefs #culture

[fillielitsa]

Albert Einstein pictured on his sailboat at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, 1936.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Albert Einstein sailing on the Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack Park, New York, 1936

#interwar period

[elucubrare]

Saranac Lake, 08.24.2022

#i was in this lake #i am fulfilled

[historicsaranaclake]

Image Of The Week

We're less than a week out from Christmas! This photograph shows the tree in front of the New York State Sanatorium for Incipient Tuberculosis in Ray Brook, decorated for Christmas sometime in the mid-1930s. We hope you have a safe and happy holiday! Try sharing your favorite memories in holiday history with your friends and family this year. We'd love to hear what you talk about!⁠

⁠ [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 1991.1.24. Gift of Kenneth Decker.]

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[patrick47]

Is My Enchiridion Indulgentiarum Account Balanced?

[Purgatory. Credit: Shown Above] Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. ~~Patrick Egan Fantastical Essays v. 1 (2024) In Saranac Lake, New York, on a warm and humid day in 2017, an elderly woman crossed Church Street safely because of something Sister John James said to me in 1957. This was no small feat because the tourist traffic was thick and heavy that day. The potential for disaster was…

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#Crusades #Eternaldemnation #gooddeeds #Heaven #Hell #Indulgences #PopeUrbanII #Purgatory #Salvation #Saranaclakeny

[klang-art]

Another from a viewpoint along the Saranac Lake River area, I liked how purple the trees were.

#plein air #enpleinair #painting #landscape #adk #adkart #art #oil painting

[fallauween]

The view of autumn trees along a curve in the road along Highway 3 in the Adirondacks near Saranac Lake, Upstate New York by Diana Robinson

Via Flickr: The view of autumn trees along a curve in the road along Highway 3 in the Adirondacks near Saranac Lake, Upstate New York

#ABigFave #road #yellow line #dividing line #road trip #Autumn leaf color #autumn #fall #environment #environmental conservation #Outdoors #remote location #no people #nature #scenics - nature #Beauty in Nature #forest #tree #Adirondack Mountains #New York State #cloud #sky #curve #flickr #Photography #Autumn Aesthetic #Autumncore #Fall Aesthetic #Autumn Cozy #Fall Blog

[newyorkstate-official]

Ampersand Mountain || Franklin County, New York

A mountain located in the High Peaks Region of New York State, Ampersand has a decent 2 mile trail up to its peak. It boasts a beautiful rocky summit with a 360° view of Saranac and Ampersand Lake and the mountains surrounding them.

There used to be a firetower situated on the top before it were deemed outdated and removed, but a metal plaque was installed to commemorate the fellow who stood watch, Walter Channing Rice, who was also nicknamed "The Hermit of Ampersand."

#new york #new york state #upstate new york #adirondacks #north country #mountins #hiking #wildlife #wildlife conservation #ny #nys #upstate

[themusicaldesk]

Béla Bartók hugging his son on a rock.  The composer Béla Bartók spent summers in Saranac Lake and wrote some of his best-known works there.