The Apperson Archives
Welcome to the Apperson Archives. Here you will find all of the material that has been added to our archives. Check out the Long Reads button below, for some interesting historical stories about John Apperson and his adventures on Lake George in the early twentieth century. Check out Current Events to see up-to-date news about the Adirondack Activism History Project. Or, if you just want to research the archives, check out People and Places as well as Letters & Publications.
Recent Additions
Tributes to Apperson in the Summer Following His Death
Lake George Protective AssociationAugust 17, 1963 From the Adirondack Mountain Club… Mr. David L. Newhouse presented the statement for the Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc. For several decades, John S. Apperson… Read more »
Read MoreHenry and Agnes Leach
The Apperson correspondence files contain many references to people who apparently had some contact with John Apperson, but whose relationship with him is relatively obscure. I have dug a little… Read more »
Read MoreFive articles published in the Adirondack Explorer Magazine 2013-2014
New York Women Helped Frame the Forest Preserve Debate (March 24, 2014) Forest Preserve History: The Warwick Carpenter Papers (August 14, 2013) Adirondack Legal History: The Lake George Trespass Case (July… Read more »
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Beyond the Classroom and the Laboratory
Stories of the Adirondacks
Ever wonder what it must have been like at GE, back when Charles Steinmetz and Irving Langmuir were getting so much attention for their research? According to the biographies I… Read more »
Read MoreFor the Love of Island Camping
Not many records survive from the first few years the Appersons spent in Schenectady, but we know that in 1906, John Apperson took an excursion into the Fulton Chain, with… Read more »
Read MoreGetting Ready for the Electrical Age: Virginia Tech, General Electric, President McBryde, and the Scientists in the 1890s
Ellen Brown wrote this paper as a graduate student, in history, at Virginia Tech, twenty years ago. She was just beginning to delve into the childhood and education of John… Read more »
Read MoreCorrespondence with the Loines Family
John Apperson probably met Hilda Loines in 1921, and soon became friends with her mother, Mary Loines, a widow, and her sister, Sylvia. He invited them to the American Canoe Association Regatta, which he hosted at his camp in Huddle Bay (the Lake View Hotel property), and soon introduced the sisters to his favorite sport, skate-sailing, and helped them purchase suitable clothing and equipment from Abercrombie and Fitch, in New York.
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