Amy Godine, author and social historian, will give a lecture, "Lost in the Woods: The Other Adirondacks," on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture is hosted by the Sophomore Seminar "Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park," and supported by the Dean of Faculty's office.
The Adirondack region is blessed with a richly diverse social history. Ethnic enclaves once abounded. A rural underclass of immigrant laborers came and went on fast-shifting tides of industrial expansion and decline. Writer Amy Godine tells the stories of some of these "non-elite" groups and talks about the Adirondacks as a paradigm of any rural region whose long-neglected, problematic history, long overshadowed by a popular environmental narrative, demands to be recovered and explored.
Amy Godine has researched extensively on the Adirondacks. She is a frequent contributor to Adirondack Life and Orion magazines, and has published articles in New York Folklore and Voices: The Journal Of New York Folklore. She is the co-author of the book Adirondack Odysseys: Exploring Museums and Historic Places, and a contributing author to The Adirondack Book: A Complete Guide. She has curated several exhibitions on Adirondack social history, most recently "Dreaming of Timbucto From Africa to the Adirondacks," currently at the New York State Museum, Albany, through February. Godine also teaches New York social history at Skidmore College's University Without Walls.
