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THE PORCH

Letter from the Porch: Gifts of Music

3/31/2020

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Dear friends,

It has been a difficult week. Our hearts go out to friends and family coping with the coronavirus and to the brave medical professionals on the front lines of this crisis.

In an effort to fill up the silence of social distance, many of us are turning to the comfort of music. Some older Saranac Lakers can trace their love of music back to a kind lady who lived in a little brick house up on French Hill.
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Stay Connected with Oral HIstory Interviews!

3/26/2020

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Staying connected is especially important during this time of social distancing! A simple phone call can go a long way to supporting our most vulnerable community members.
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Consider joining our oral history project and connecting with isolated community members through telephone interviews. This is a great project you can do from home! Free smartphone apps like Google Voice allow you to easily call and record your interview. If there are children in your life, encourage them to learn more about their elders by asking grandparents or aunts or uncles simple questions about their lives.
Oral history interviews are a wonderful community building tool. Contact kayt@historicsaranaclake.org or visit http://www.hslstories.org/get-involved.html to get involved!
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Letter from the Porch: Radio Contact

3/24/2020

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PictureEd Worthington at the Trudeau Sanatorium with his ham radio. Courtesy of Jan Dudones.
Dear friends,

In the past week I have found such joy in the personal calls and emails shared with so many of you. Thank you for staying in touch. I hope this letter finds you all safe and well.

As a member of our email list, you understand that by paying attention to the lives of those who came before us, we enrich our own experience of the present. I am finding this particularly true right now. I would like to  share with you a weekly letter to help us connect with our history and with each other. As a shout-out to our fresh air history, I’m going to call these “letters from the porch.”


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Letter from the Porch: Lessons in Resilience

3/16/2020

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Dear Friends,

Many years ago, Saranac Lake rallied to fight a deadly disease. Today’s news sure has us thinking about our local history.

Tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people in the late 1800s. Highly contagious and with no known cure, fear and stigma surrounded TB. Unlike the new virus we face today, many of its victims were young people in their 20s. Like today, quarantine was often seen as an appropriate solution, and sometimes people were isolated against their will. A person’s ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status affected the kinds of treatments available.

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New Design Guide for Mobile Spaces!

3/14/2020

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Thinking about building your own mobile space? Check out our new design guide for mobile spaces! 
Our Cure Porch on Wheels has been in operation for nearly a year! With nine months of Porch programming  completed, we took some time to review the project, the planning process, and the lessons learned. We are sharing them with you! Learn more about how this project came to be by clicking the button below. We're covering the Porch inspiration, design, construction, mistakes,  and supplying the complete design blue prints!
DESIGN GUIDE
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Adirondack Traditions: Ice Fishing

3/9/2020

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On March 7th and 8th, the Cure Porch on Wheels could be found at Lake Colby Beach outside the weigh station for the Colby Classic Fishing Derby. Ice fishing is an important tradition in the Adirondacks. This was the 36th annual fishing derby, and many of the fishermen attending had been to all 36!
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Kayt Gochenaur, the Cure Porch on Wheels project coordinator, used the opportunity to interview the local fishermen about their traditions, the "hard-water" communities that form in winter, and the changes in the local fish populations. Inside the Porch we featured a mini-exhibit on the architecture of ice shanties.​
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