Videos produced with Josh Clement

For several years, Ed worked with his friend and neighbor Josh Clement to produce videos about the Adirondack Mountains and the singular people and wildlife that inhabit their slopes and valleys.  

The heart of their work is the series Curiously Adirondack, produced for three seasons for Plattsburgh, New York-based Mountain Lake Public Television and in its fourth season as an independent production. Thirty episodes celebrate the quirky, wonderful people of the Adirondack region and the wild, rugged, semi-civilized region in which they live, work, and play. 

Have seven minutes? Click here to watch a segment about the Adirondack Mountain village of Saranac Lake. For more than half a century, this town welcomed tuberculosis sufferers from around the world. They came to rest, breathe crisp mountain air, and, with a certain amount of luck, be cured. Or click here and join a moose-calling contest in the village of Indian Lake.

Josh and Ed are particularly proud of two comic pieces they've produced. One came before the launching of Curiously Adirondack and features the most loathsome creatures in the mountains, the blackflies. See Adirondack Terror: The Blackfly Menace

Adirondack Terror: The Blackfly Menace

The other takes a look at the giant beaver, a bear-sized rodent that scientists have pronounced extinct. But is it? See Golly, Wally: Giant Beavers Still Surviving In The Adirondacks?

 
Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). Most of us have heard William Faulkner's famous line about the past not being dead. His wisdom is nowhere more apparent than in the Adirondack Mountain village of Saranac Lake.
Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). There are spelling bees. There are trivia contests. There are athletic games and lumberjack competitions. But have you ever seen and heard a moose-calling contest? The scene is wild, competitors are fierce, and it's all in good fun.
 
Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). For years, skeptics have laughed and groaned while sightings and signs of an enormous aquatic rodent in the Adirondacks have multiplied. Those who believe in it have come to agree that the mysterious animal is the giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, believed extinct for 11,000 years or more.