ANDY FLYNN

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Andy Flynn is a writer, photographer and editor living in Saranac Lake. In 2003, he began writing a weekly, syndicated column, “Adirondack Attic,” for several newspapers in northern New York. In 2004, he founded Hungry Bear Publishing and self-published his first book, New York State’s Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 1. For the column’s material, he works with curators at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake to tell human-interest stories about the facility’s artifact collections. Flynn’s catalog now includes five Adirondack Attic books.

In February 2008, Andy Flynn was interviewed by Gary Van Riper at Old Forge Hardware for the Adirondack Journal segment of Mohawk Valley Living. See the interview on YouTube.

In 2008, Flynn was awarded a Certificate of Commendation from the Upstate History Alliance for the Adirondack Attic History Project, which he founded in 2003 to actively preserve Adirondack history by collecting artifact-based, human-interest stories.

In 2007, Flynn and his wife, Dawn, acquired the 80-year-old Meet the Town publication, a community resource guide series with booklets on the Saranac Lake and Lake Placid/Wilmington regions.

During the day, Flynn is employed as the Senior Public Information Specialist for the New York State Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Centers (VICs) at Paul Smiths and Newcomb, with his office in Paul Smiths. His public relations duties include writing press releases, taking photographs, maintaining the VIC web site and coordinating special events.

Flynn is an award-winning journalist, garnering merits of excellence from the National Newspaper Association, New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the New York Press Association (NYPA) for photography, headline writing, editorial writing, news writing, feature writing, front-page layout and community service reporting. While the staff writer at the Lake Placid News, he was named the 1996 NYPA Writer of the Year for weekly New York state newspapers with circulations under 10,000.

Flynn’s freelance activities include editing and layout for the summer and winter editions of the Adirondack Vacation Guide, published by the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. His magazine articles have appeared in Adirondack Life and the New York State Conservationist. He travels around the Adirondack region giving presentations on Adirondack history, and he is a public relations consultant for small businesses.

Before joining the VIC staff, he was a writer and editor for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake and the Lake Placid News, a correspondent for the Plattsburgh Press-Republican, an announcer for WNBZ 1240-AM in Saranac Lake, and a general assignment news reporter and radio documentary producer for North Country Public Radio in Canton. He is a graduate of the SUNY College at Fredonia (1991) and the Tupper Lake High School (1987).

BOOK REVIEWS

Adirondack Attic 5: Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Andy Bates, July 4, 2008