If you’ve always been drawn to the timeless beauty of driftwood, you’ll surely appreciate the exquisite elegance of Hope Falls (in northern Fulton County, NY) artist Caitlin Roben’s driftwood sculptures.

More hikers in the woods and nicer weather led to several recent NYS Forest Ranger missions to rescue injured, lost, or unprepared people in the backcountry of the Adirondacks, Catskills, and elsewhere around New York State.

There are roughly 2,400 described species of fireflies around the world, many which lack common names. A 2021 review tallied 167 species in the U.S. and Canada, with 44 in VT, NH, Maine, Mass. and New York. (As a point of comparison, there are only around 6,600 species of mammals globally.)

The sudden en masse appearance of meat-eating, airborne insects with wingspans up to six inches across does not sound like welcome news. Sometimes it is.

This weekend is the inaugural Medina Triennial, a contemporary art exhibition around the landscapes and histories of the community of Medina in Orleans County in Western New York, organized to take place every three years.

The Victory Loop Trail is a new formalized recreation trail at Bennington Battlefield State Historic Site in Walloomsac, Rensselaer County, NY.

For a century and a half prior to the American Revolution the people of New York had been accustomed to act through representative committees in order to win one concession after another for self-government. During the Revolution the committee system kicked into overdrive. #AmericanRevolution

St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village began in 1849 with a simple mission: care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more than 160 years, it carried out that work, until the it closed in 2010, was demolished two years later and has now become luxury condos.

Former journalist turned local historian Maury Thompson has assembled some 1925 radio news collected from Northern New York historic newspapers. #radio #radiohistory

The First Houses were built in 1935-36 under the direction of architect and housing reformer Frederick L. Ackerman for the new New York City Housing Authority. It was the first public low-income housing project in the nation, designed to address housing problems on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The Killing Fields of East New York reveals how white-collar crime reduced a prospering neighborhood to abandoned buildings and empty lots.

$20,000 in 1968 is estimated to be worth about $190,000 today. Would you pass that up if it were offered to you and it were legitimately yours? Clint Wescott would — and did.

Fiddleheads grow wild in wet areas of northeastern North America in spring and were widely consumed by Indigenous people and early European settlers, especially in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Quebec and New Brunwick, where they remain a traditional dish.

Local environmental organizations have banded together to kick off summer with an afternoon of interactive learning about how to responsibly enjoy Adirondack lakes and lands.

Several recent wildlife rescues happened in the Hudson Valley, including a Saratoga County turkey apparently hit by a vehicle; and in Dutchess County, eleven ducklings stuck in a storm drain and an orphaned gosling.

Historic Huguenot Street will host their 5th annual “New Netherland Marketplace” living history event on Saturday, June 13th, 2026 from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday, June 14th, 2026 from 10 am until 4 pm.

From the very beginning it was agreed the Statue of Liberty would be a joint venture: France would create the actual copper sculpture; America would provide the stone pedestal on which it was to be mounted. Neither government was involved however, nor paid a sou or a penny toward the funding.

A highly popular shore fishing destination, Target Rock is just one of five properties that form the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex. It also has an interesting history.

From October 26 to November 4, 1825, the display of three paintings by Thomas Cole (1801-1848) – in the windows of Colman’s bookstore on Broadway near Fulton Street in Manhattan – changed the course of American art.

The late Judge John Austin’s unrivalled collection of books and documents related to the history of Warren County, its towns and families has been reassembled as a reference library in the Warren County Clerk’s Office.

Are there any places left in the Adirondacks that could still be considered remote, far removed from the sounds and sights of urbanized America? And if so, how many?

In the Northern Hemisphere, crayfish are in the family Cambaridae. Globally, there are around 500 species; North America is home to about 400 of them.

Readers of In The Moment, In The Forest (Troy Bookmakers, 2024), a beautifully written book of day-by-day journal entries, accompany Green for one full year as she observes and records the natural wonders of her beloved North Country.

A new Adirondack Rail Trail App has been launched, a free mobile resource designed to enhance the visitor experience and encourage exploration of the region’s communities, businesses, and attractions. #adirondacks

At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding for the arts, the New Deal launched the careers of artists such as Philip Guston, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

Described in numerous news articles as the Spanish Alps, Las Villas, as they were collectively known, was a lively enclave of Spanish, Puerto Rican and other Hispanic summer resorts in Plattekill, NY, and the Catskill Mountains.

The Justice Department tried to erase the history of Jan 6. We restored if. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The word barricade comes from the French “barrique” (barrel) - it was and important strategy in 19th century demonstrations to turn narrow streets into strongholds.

Three hundred years ago in June, 1726 French soldiers and tradesmen landed at the mouth of the Niagara River to establish what is now Fort Niagara. Their mission was to construct a massive stone fortification disguised as a house.

New York State Forest Rangers recently responded to a 53-year-old Mohonk Preserve rock climber who fell 30 feet; a 66-acre wildfire started by debris burning in Franklin County; three hikers in distress in the Dix Range of the Adirondack High Peaks over just two days; and more.

The new Shepard Park amphitheater in the village of Lake George is opening officially in late June.

The New York State Museum has unveiled a facial reconstruction of a Revolutionary War soldier whose remains were recovered from the Courtland Street Burying Ground in Lake George, NY.

Daniel Talbot did not simply show movies. He helped teach America how to watch them.

The New York State Fourth of July Celebration at the Empire State Plaza, is a free, family-friendly event featuring live music, fireworks, and activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence.

During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), many Mahican and Munsee-speaking people in the Hudson Valley felt themselves pressured to relocate to new areas both inside and outside of the Valley as the result of an ethnic cleansing project conducted by Sir William Johnson.

The Redford Crown Glass Works in Clinton County, NY, was one of the most important of some forty New York State glass concerns operating after 1830.

When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras. Yet, in fact, one of six inhabitants of the thirteen original colonies was enslaved.

The seemingly inevitable conversion toward electric vehicles is well underway in New York.

A new Clean Ferries Bill calls for publicly funded ferry companies to purchase only zero-emission vessels starting in 2028, and for other public vessels in New York State waters to be zero-emission by 2032.

It’s been nearly a year since an Assistant Forest Ranger’s body was found in the Adirondack backcountry. DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton recently announced new safety regulations for assistant forest rangers ahead of the busy summer hiking season.

Registration is now open for a behind-the-scenes tour of the former Trudeau Sanatorium, led by Historic Saranac Lake. The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was a tuberculosis sanatorium established in 1885 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.

NYS DEC has expanded and enhanced several fishing and paddling access sites across the state, including those with universally accessible features.

An experienced caver was on a guided tour when he became trapped in Merlin’s Cave in the town of Canaan, Columbia County.

One of the few avian grassland specialists in the Northeast, bobolinks have recently returned from their wintering grounds in southern South America and are now fully engaged in breeding activity.

During the American Revolution armies constantly waged war on and with the land, as survival depended on local resources like firewood, forage, and water. This “military metabolism” altered ecosystems, while harsh terrain and disease often proved as deadly as combat.

On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted emergency relief in the American Historical Association and American Oversight’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s effort to evade the Presidential Records Act.

Water currents can be strong at any time of year, but early season boaters, paddlers, anglers and swimmers are at a greater risk in spring when waters are still cold – cold enough to cause cold water shock, hypothermia and death in minutes.

New York State is home to several rare and fragile floating bogs and fens. These unique ecosystems feature mats of sphagnum moss and vegetation that actually float over water.

Hot dry weather and lack of rain remains a wildfire concern around state. Since May 4th, New York State Forest Rangers fought two brush fires. In Saratoga County a wildfire began with ashes dumped outside, and a two-acre fire of unknown origin in Warrensburg damaged a structure.

A new online survey is up and running that seeks information about the experiences of hikers on the trails of the Forest Preserve in the Adirondack Park.