Bat Week is observed October 24-31 annually to build support for the conservation of bats – a frequently misunderstood species.

The Jesuit missionary Isaac Jogues famously described New Amsterdam as a place where eighteen different languages were spoken. Although he meant to suggest that the Dutch colony was a confused and ...

The Adirondack Railroad has a Halloween Train scheduled this Saturday, October 24, 2026. Children in costume will receive one ...

A whitetail deer was found with a hammock wrapped tightly around one of its antlers and tangled in the vines of a tree.

The settlers developed full-fledged oyster ( Crassostrea virginica) and then hard clam ( Mercenaria mercenaria) industries ...

Local men who worked the bay, known as baymen, dredged and raked the shallow bottoms of Great South Bay for the oyster and ...

It is debatable as to when the first outboard motors for boats initially appeared in America. Some boating historians cite the year 1896, when a Long Island business named the American Motor Company ...

The Roycroft Renaissance" celebrates 50 years since the founding the Roycrofters-at-Large in East Aurora in 1976.

Set largely near Lake George, Ian Fleming's 1962 James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me takes an unexpected detour through the Adirondacks.

Paul Revere was Joseph Warren’s brother Mason. In 1760, when Revere was 25, he entered St. Andrew’s Lodge, a newer lodge whose members were mostly craftsmen. It met at the Green Dragon Tavern on Union ...

This morning American Historical Association and American Oversight urged a US Court to require compliance with the Presidential Records Act.