The view that awaits visitors to the ADKX in Blue Mountain Lake. (Photo courtesy the Adirondack Experience)
May 28, 2021 —
Mitch Teich
On the May edition of First Person, we speak with Bill Fox. The 18th President of St. Lawrence University will step down at the end of June after 12 years in office. Fox talks with us about the mark he hopes he left on the liberal arts school, how students today compare with his undergraduate days at St. Lawrence in the 1970s, and about the global crises that bookended his tenure. Later, the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake is reopening to visitors for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll talk with Executive Director David Kahn about how the museum campus has weathered the last 15 months, how it's preparing for visitors, and the excitement and uncertainty of the 2021 Summer season. North Country Bookmarks host Jessica Lawrence offers a preview of the June edition of her show. And we'll reconnect with Doug Anderson of the Opera Company of Middlebury, which pulled out all the stops for a virtual production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," coming soon to your small (or maybe medium-sized) screen.