Amy Godine

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I am a writer, curator, and lecturer with a longstanding interest in the social history of the Adirondack region. I’ve been writing articles and speaking about social trends, marginalized communities and ethnic and Black neighborhoods in this high corner of New York since 1988. What do these pieces have in common beyond their focus on this region? One way or another, they aim to challenge or confound entrenched ideas about Adirondack exceptionalism, and reach for the guy lines that lash the region to the wider, fractious world beyond. Miners’ strikes, eastern European peddlers, Klan rallies, Spanish road workers, the pseudo-science of eugenics and its impact on the early conservation movement, suffrage activism and Black pioneers -- mine is not the Adirondack Country dear to Park historians, nature writers or antiquarians. I go for something else.