Reminiscences & Oral Histories

• An Ex-patient - Former Health Seeker in Saranac Lake Tells of Community's Charm (1926)

• Wilbur F. Beckett - A patient at the Sageman Cottage from August, 1923 to April, 1924.

• Morgan Callahan - An early pharmacist recalls the pharmacies of the 1930s.

• Judy Cameron - "Camp" life on the St. Regis Lakes from the 1920s.

• Donald Mott Chapin - Local Columnist Arthur Slattery re-counts an interview with Mr. Chapin, civic leader and former patient.

• Ed Dyer - Public stenographer recalls the businesses of the twenties and thirties on lower Broadway.

• John Duquette -
  

• Boom times in Saranac Lake - Early 1900s in Saranac Lake
  

• High School Days - Childhood in Saranac Lake in the 1920s
  

• Origins of the Saranac Lake High School yearbook - The first Canaras
  

• Remembering things past in Saranac Lake - The thirties in Saranac Lake

• Interview with Eileen Fanning

• Robert Farrell - Farrell learned X-ray technology while curing at Ray Brook as a teenager in the late 1940s.

• Jack Finegan Interview

• Ruth W. Freeman - Freeman worked at the Lake Clear Inn in the late 1930s.

• Donn Garwood Interview

• Irene Gillmett - The impact of the Saranac Inn on the Lake Clear area in the 1930s through the 1950s.

• E.K. Goldthwaite - The history of the Adirondack Enterprise from 1906-1918

• Francis M. Harding - Remembrances of her family's camp on Lake Kiwassa

• Bob Kampf - Railroad, Saranac Lake and Ray Brook, 1920s - '50s

• Ron Keough - Youth sports in the 1940s and '50s

• Helen Larsen Interview

• Natalie Leduc Interview

• Baron Ling - Bloomingdale in the 1880s

• Fred Maloney - An oral history of work at Paul Smiths Hotel c. 1906

• James Marshall - Recollections of life at Knollwood Club

• Mary E. McClelland - Pioneers of Saranac Lake

• Jim Munn - AP's Man in the Nation's Capital Recalls Dad's Store at 72 Main Street

• The Old Philosopher remembers Stage Coach Days

• Evelyn Outcalt Interview

• Dick Ray - Just 21, he begins a 12 year battle for health

• Centennial Recollections - James H. LaPan, Ethel Ward Jeans, Bessie Hanmer, Elizabeth Fletcher and Clara Holt

• Howard Riley
  

• Howard Riley Interview
  

• Driving a cab in 1948

• Russell Shefrin - Ray Brook in the 1950s and '60s

• Madeline Smith - School nurse in 1912, and later Head nurse of the Reception Hospital

• Tent Platform Permit No. 733 - A memoir by Michael Specht about his family's tent platform on Lower Saranac Lake.

• Joseph Stephen - Reminiscences of the period 1921 to 1955 by a local attorney.

• Katharine Strelsky - Memories of a 1929 Christmas sleigh ride to Paul Smiths for the staff of the Saranac Lab

• Edward (Mark) Tucker

• Mrs. Albert Tyler -
  

• Farm deliveries in the 1930s
  

• Snow storm at the Adirondack-Florida School
  

• 1895 Places of Business
  

• Grant G. Cochran
  

• Stephen Martin
  

• Frank Dyer
  

• Isaac Lyon Jr.
  

• Interbrook Club
  

• Plank Road
  

• Eight Square School House

• TB Reunion —
  

• Mabel Blais Sharp - As a patient and nurse, she fought TB, and won
  

• Doris Carey Steel - Loneliness, depression and happiness at Will Rogers

• Dr. Charles F. Wicker remembers his first year in Saranac Lake, 1881

• World War II recollections - Memories of John Stiegman and Carroll Yard

External links:

• BunksPlace.com
  

• http://www.historicsaranaclake.org/oral-history-project.html- To hear full oral histories please visit Historic Saranac Lake's Website.

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