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In 2023, ROOST launched a 3-year Strategic Plan to guide our work through 2025. As we look ahead to 2028, we’re beginning the process of updating that plan, and your voice is essential.

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Learn to safely build a campfire!

Kids age 10-16 come to the AIC to learn how to safely build a cozy campfire in this fun, hands-on class just for kids! We’ll explore fire safety basics and the best techniques for building and enjoying a fire in the great outdoors. Parents must be present.

 To register email shample@esf.edu.

Need to escape from the heat or rain? 

Join us at the Adirondack Interpretive Center Sunday’s at 1pm and enjoy BBC’s mini-series, Life! Feel free to bring a comfier camp chair as well as snacks and drinks (Non-alcoholic beverages only, please)!
From the BBC and the Discovery Channel, producers of Planet Earth and The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, comes the newest landmark natural history series, Life. In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as you’ve never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life. Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, with breathtaking new high definition filming techniques not available for Planet Earth, Life presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, 54 of which have never been filmed before. Packed with excitement, revelation and entertainment, this remarkable 11-part blockbuster, narrated by Oprah Winfrey, captures unprecedented, astonishingly beautiful sequences and demonstrates the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive.

• June 29th - Challenges of Life
• July 6th - Reptiles and Amphibians
• July 13th – Mammals
• July 20th – Fish
• July 27th - Hunters and Hunted
• August 3rd - Creatures of the Deep
• August 10th – Plants
• August 17th – Primates

Kate Kearney - Adirondack Photographer and Videographer

This lecture is a fun guide into using your camera to capture the fleeting awe-inspiring moments in nature. Katie will share some of her favorite magical moments and explain the techniques used. Optional mini photo adventure after the presentation.

Below is the 2025 tournament schedule for the Adirondack Impact!

Please see attached flyer for all info! Located at Town Park's Softball field in North Hudson NY!

Join the Town of Schroon Lions for our Annual Garage Sale at the Schroon Lake Boathouse...lots to look, lots to buy!

Real Time Revolution Living History Event: Memorial Day Weekend

Join Fort Ticonderoga on Memorial Day weekend, to remember the service of the men and women of the armed forces of the United States who gave their all on the very grounds where so many American soldiers fought and sacrificed. Join the Fifes & Drums of Fort Ticonderoga for a special commemorative ceremony on Sunday. Experience all aspects of the life for this first American citizen-soldiers in 1775, from their weapons to their rations, and learn about what they believed would come from their sacrifice in the name of liberty. All day long, watch as these newly drafted American soldiers ply their civilian trades and help rebuild this military outpost.

Remember the Sacrifices of Fallen American Soldiers at Fort Ticonderoga

• 10:15 a.m. Key to the Continent Guided Tour (Begins at the American Flag) In this entertaining half-hour tour, discover the incredible story of Ticonderoga and all the great experiences Fort Ticonderoga offers today. Learn about the iconic battles of Carillon and Ticonderoga within the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Explore groundbreaking preservation and reconstruction efforts that allow Fort Ticonderoga to bring to life its heroic tales today and for generations to come.
• 11:00 a.m. Musket Demonstration Saturday Only (Begins inside the Parade Ground) Whether the Green Mountain Boys or Colonel Benedict Arnold’s men, soldiers ebbed and flowed through Ticonderoga in late May 1775. Discover the civilian weapons and old military arms that equipped these early patriots. 
• 11:00 a.m. Memorial Service Sunday Only (Begins inside the Parade Ground) Join the recreated procession of an American Soldier’s funeral and see him laid to his final resting place. Pay respect to those who fell in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War and reflect on the ultimate sacrifice they made to secure our liberty today.
• 11:30 a.m. A Guided Tour of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum (Begins inside the Parade Ground) More than a century of collecting has allowed Fort Ticonderoga to acquire North America’s largest and most important collection of 18th-century military material culture. This guided tour will give you the scoop on the most significant, rare, & interesting pieces in the collection on display.
• 11:30 a.m. Garden March (Begins at the American Flag) Follow behind the Fifes and Drums down to the King’s Garden with a musical escort.
• 11:45 a.m. Breaking Ground Tour: A Guided Tour of the Fort Ticonderoga Gardens (Begins at the King’s Garden Greenhouse) From military garrison gardens to a vibrant Colonial Revival garden, explore one of North America's oldest cultivated landscapes. Discover the incredible story of America's first historic preservation effort, and the family country estate and gardens emblematic of that legacy.
• 1:15 p.m. Key to the Continent Guided Tour (Begins at the American Flag) See 10:15 am description.
• 2:00 p.m. Cannon Demonstration (Begins inside the Parade Ground) Americans eagerly employed the guns of Ticonderoga on the Fort walls and upon their growing flotilla on Lake Champlain. See the work to prepare, mount, and fire these cannons to secure Lake Champlain and the colony’s northern approach.
• 2:30 p.m. A Guided Tour of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum See 11:30 am description.
• 2:45 p.m. Breaking Ground Tour: A Guided Tour of the Fort Ticonderoga Gardens See 11:30 am description.
• 3:00 p.m. Key to the Continent Guided Tour See 10:15 am description.
• 4:00 p.m. Witness to History Guided Tour (Begins atop Mount Defiance at 72 Defiance Street) This graceful mountain overlooking Fort Ticonderoga played a pivotal role during the French & Indian War. Discover the legacy of Mount Defiance by 1775 and its exciting chapters in the Revolutionary War. View the landscapes that shaped the history of our nation.

Learn how to identify priority invasive plant and animal species and take action to protect our local waterbodies in this 2-part workshop. Workshops are geared toward all who enjoy spending time on the water and are free.
 

Come join us for a relaxing afternoon of painting whether it be watercolor, acrylic or other techniques. We supply the space, you bring the supplies.

Weekly Storytime!

Come join us for our weekly storytime for children birth-5.  Connect with other parents and children as we spend the hour listening to stories, making crafts, playing, and enjoying snacks!