Teaching Generations to Care
Who we are
As the Friends group to the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb, the Adirondack Park Institute provides support for the Center’s free educational and experiential programs offered to all children, families, and visitors that teach generations to care for the Adirondack Park’s unique natural and cultural resources.
Our Story
For over 35 years, The Adirondack Park Institute (API) has been helping to provide FREE public programming from the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb. We were established back in 1989 to specifically help
Our Board
Trustees
Stuart H. Angert
Joan Burke
Rob Calihan
James C. Dawson
William Farber
Michael I. German
Paul B. Hai
Mark Leta
USAF (Ret)
Charles F. Monzeglio, Jr.
Melany Putman
Troy Trombley
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Advisory Board
Robin Deloria
Roger Dziengeleski
Sarah Lewin
Elizabeth Lowe
Edmund Lynch
Neil Murphy
Mike Pratt
Phil Terrie
Kathy Hutchins Welling
Ross Whaley
In Memory
William B. Hale II
Thad P. Collum
George Canon
Abbie Verner
Director
Ally Parent
Board information
Frank Pine
President
Robert Cummings
Treasurer
Elizabeth "Liz" Thorndike
Elizabeth “Liz” Thorndike served for nearly 16 years as an Adirondack Park Agency commissioner and then 20 years as member of the board of directors of NYSERDA.
She is an educator in the field of natural resource policy and planning and has
been part of many teaching and learning teams with the Center for Environmental Information in Rochester and adjunct faculty at Cornell where she taught “Wilderness and Wildlands: Sustaining the Built Environment.
A board member of the API for many years, she also serves currently on the boards of the Adirondack Research Consortium and Paul Smith’s College.
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Col. Robert "Bob' C. Lilly
Trustee
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Retired USAF
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Our Sustaining Partners
