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Wild Island of Hope
This year's exciting Adirondack Experience Adventure Lecture Series opens with a presentation by Gary Randorf, author, photographer, and environmentalist.
Randorf, who has traveled the world photographing the earth's wild places, will be presenting on a new collection of his work, The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope, published in June 2003.
In the foreword to the book, Bill McKibben describes how Randorf captures the Adirondacks - in "a glory carefully revealed in the words and pictures" - as "a second-chance wilderness and, as such, a hope that the damage caused by human beings is not irreversible. It is metaphor as much as place."
Spending his semi-retirement between the Adirondacks and New Zealand, Randorf has had one-person shows at The Lake Placid Center for the Arts, The Adirondack Museum, and the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
In 1994, Randorf was honored with a retrospective exhibit at Plattsburgh State's Meyers Fine Arts Gallery. He has also served as Executive Director and then Senior Counselor for The Adirondack Council.
Mr. Randorf will also be available for book signing.
Schedule of Events
Gary Randorf, author and environmentalist - "The Adirondacks: Wild Islands of Hope"
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall
Presented by The Adirondack Experience with support from The Adirondack 46R Conservation Trust and College Auxiliary Services
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Date: Monday, February 9, 2003
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall
Daniel Fitts, executive director of The Adirondack Park Agency - "The Adirondack Park Agency and Recreational Opportunities in The Adirondacks"
Date: Thursday, Nov 13, 2003
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall
Shelley Johnson, author and kayaker
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004
Two presentations: "Women and Kayaking" at the Women's Studies Forum. In the evening, as part of the Adventure Lecture Series, she'll be showing slides on and talking about "Kayaking The Coast of Maine."
More information
Dr. Larry Soroka, Director The Adirondack Experience
Plattsburgh State University of New York
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12962
phone: (518) 564-5292
email: laurence.soroka@pattsburgh.edu
www.plattsburgh.edu/adx