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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 Time-Life American Country volumes, Country Furniture.

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Racquette Lake and its eponymous village are near Sagamore Lodge; below, another spectacle of Fall Color along NY 28 near Blue Mountain Lake.

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The buildings of the tiny village are visible across Blue Mountain Lake at the base of the mountain they both take their name from.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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