250th Celebration: ADK History - Author Talk w/ Marty Podskoch

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250th Celebration: ADK History - Author Talk w/ Marty Podskoch

Celebrate the 250th Birthday of the US with a medley of Adirondack History books by Marty Podskoch. Join us for an afternoon with award-winning author and historian Marty Podskoch as he takes us on a journey through the rugged beauty and rich history of the Adirondack Mountains.

Marty will be presenting a "medley" of his six popular Adirondack works and sharing stories of the people, places, and legends that define the North Country.

In 2013, the Adirondack Mountain Club presented Podskoch with the “Arthur E. Newkirk ADK Education Award” for achievement in chronicling the social history and lore of the Catskills and Adirondack Fire Towers and the Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps.

His two best-selling Adirondack fire tower books on the 57 towers in the Southern & Northern Districts tell the history of the towers, the observers who staffed them, their families, and the forest rangers who supervised them.

Marty Podskoch spent many years traveling throughout the Adirondacks giving talks and tracking down these interesting observers who spent years watching for smoke and calling rangers to extinguish the fires. It is a must-read for those who love to climb fire tower summits and wonder about the towers’ history.

Podskoch’s Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps records the accomplishments of the CCC Camps in the Adirondacks, other parts of New York State, and Camps out West.

His two-volume Adirondack Stories: Historical Sketches contains 151 illustrated panels of Adirondack guides, hunters, hermits, hotels, writers, artists, photographers, explorers, lumbering, mining, tanneries, railroads, boats, sports, entertainers, and amusement parks.

Podskoch’s Adirondack 102 Club: Your Passport and Guide to Exploring the Adirondacks has been the #1 Adirondack travel book for the past 10 years. A local writer in each Adirondack town wrote a short history and Marty included interesting places to visit. It is also a passport book. The reader is encouraged to meet a town resident or business person and have them sign or stamp the book. Those who visit all 102 towns receive the “Vagabond Award” patch, so named after the self-described “Vagabonds": Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone & John Burroughs, who took automobile camping trips throughout the Adirondacks.

About the Author: Marty Podskoch is a renowned author and historian known for his extensive research into the Catskills, Adirondack fire towers and in his CCC Adirondack, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont books. He also wrote travel books in the Adirondacks, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. He is a former reading teacher in Delhi, NY and who now lives in Easton, CT.