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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br]Sunday morning of my "anything goes" weekend spent at Sagamore Lodge, following a hearty breakfast-as-usual in the main dining room, I drove the fifteen or so miles on NY 28 from Racquette Lake to Blue Mountain Lake, home of the famous Adirondack Museum. I especially wanted to see its collection of Adirondack Rustic Wood Furniture, featured in another of the [i]Time-Life American Country[/i] volumes, [i]Country Furniture.[/i] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122417492_Racquette LakeA.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 67.77 KB[/size=1] Racquette Lake and its eponymous village are near Sagamore Lodge; below, another spectacle of Fall Color along NY 28 near Blue Mountain Lake. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122417530_Blue Mtn LakeA.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 87.23 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121224175516_Blue Mtn Lake 001a.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 81.42 KB[/size=1] The buildings of the tiny village are visible across Blue Mountain Lake at the base of the mountain they both take their name from. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121224175957_Adirondack MuseumA.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 55.27 KB[/size=1] The Adirondack Museum is a complex of buildngs perched on the slope of Blue Mountain overlooking the lake. It is a charming regional museum devoted to the natural and cultural history of the Adirondack Mountains. This photograph was taken from the terrace of the main museum building on another fine day in early October. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122418645_Adirondack Museum 001A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 73.52 KB[/size=1] The museum also features several period buildings like this small early tourist hotel; despite its warlike appearance, the cannon in the foreground is only a signal gun, formerly used on the lake. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122418117_Adirondack Museum 003A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 61.77 KB[/size=1] Another small historic original residence, the Bull House, named for its original owner, is used appropriately to showcase the museum's collection of rustic Adirondack "twig furniture" I came to see. Pieces of this style were made by craftsmen like Ernest Stowe and A.G. Vanderbilt's gardner George Wilson, often for use in the Great Camps; several of these came from Sagamore itself when it was first sold by the family in the mid-Twentieth Century. Winter was an especially productive time for furniture-making in this harsh climate which limited outdoor activities. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121224182235_Adirondack Museum 002A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 61.91 KB[/size=1] Another large shed-type building I unfortunately failed to photograph contained several examples of the famous Adirondack watercraft. The item I most vividly remember, however, is the buckboard used by then-new President Theodore Roosevelt to make a mad overnight dash from the Adirondack lodge where he was staying, to the nearest railroad station to catch the next train for New York City and Washington. As Vice President, he was on vacation and had just recieved word by telephone of the death by assassin's bullet of President McKinley, who had been lingering from it for some time but was thought to be on the road to recovery. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.