Adirondack Community: Capturing, Retaining, and Communicating the Stories of Who We Are is a multi-year local history project that collects and organizes audio stories and related photographs from Town of Keene community members. Visit us at myadirondackstory.org to hear about the rich social and cultural history of our community located in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.

Adirondack hiking is a phrase that elicits high emotion these days, in ways you might not expect. Why? Our mountains have made the Town of Keene a destination since the late 1800s, but are also why our roads are too crowded in summer and emergency services stretched. Many of us are working on the solutions to share our magnificent mountains in a better way. These stories of Adirondack hiking from the 1800s to the present will help you understand their almost magical impact and how important it is to preserve them for future generations. Note that a 46’er has summited all the Adirondack High Peaks, each over 4,000 rugged feet high.