A lecture by Andy Flynn.  Learn how historical events shaped the lives of Adirondack residents.  Topics include: the American Revolution, World War 2, the 1932 and the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, and the creation of the Adirondack Park.
Andy Flynn is a writer, photographer and editor living in Saranac Lake.  In 2003, he began writing a weekly, syndicated column, “Adirondack Attic,” for several newspapers in Northern NY.  In 2004, he founded Hungry Bear Publishing and self-published his first book, NYS Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 1.  For the column’s material he works with curators at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake to tell human-interest stories about the facility’s artifact collections.  Flynn’s catalog now includes five Adirondack Attic Books.
Flynn is an award-winning journalist for photography, headline writing, editorial writing, news writing, feature writing, front-page layout and community service reporting.  While the staff writer at the Lake Placid News, he was named the 1996 NYPA Writer of the Year for weekly NYS newspapers with circulations under 10,000.