Seneca Ray Stoddard: An Intimate Portrait of an Adirondack Legend

Seneca Ray Stoddard. Photo credit: Chapman Museum

The Adirondack Experience, the museum on Blue Mountain Lake, presents another compelling installment in their virtual series, In the Adirondack Library. The event takes place over Zoom on March 11, making it available to anyone in or outside the Blue Line to attend.

The topic of The ADKX’s next program is the legendary Seneca Ray Stoddard — an American landscape photographer known for his photographs of New York's Adirondack Mountains. He was also a naturalist, a writer, a poet, an artist, and a cartographer. His writings and photographs were instrumental in popularizing the Adirondacks.

Dr. Daniel Way, a native of Glens Falls, will lead the discussion. He is the author of “Seneca Ray Stoddard- An Intimate Portrait of an Adirondack Legend.” Stoddard is also Dr. Way’s great-great-uncle.

The biography of Seneca Ray Stoddard is the story of a remarkable American from upstate New York who emerged from humble beginnings during the post-Civil War era to become a renowned artist, author, photographer, explorer, surveyor, cartographer, traveler, inventor and Adirondack environmentalist over a six-decade career. In so doing, he had a profound impact on the New York landscape that endures to the present day.

For more information about the event and to register, visit the ADKX website.

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