Event Details and Programs for the

Adirondack Nature Festival
for People with Disabilities

About the event, ribbon cutting, opening remarks, event providers, food options, total care resources, and media information for the festival.

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Event Information

Welcome!

When: Saturday, August 16, 2025 from 10am to 4pm

Where: Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center (the ‘VIC’), Paul Smiths, NY

We are in the initial planning stages for the 2025 event. Please visit this page later for more information.

Opening Remarks and Ribbon Cutting
Total Care Resources
Media Information
Susan E. Griskonis Assistant Attorney General in Charge

Susan E. Griskonis

Assistant Attorney General In Charge
Office of the New York State Attorney General
Plattsburgh Regional Office

Susan Griskonis is the Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Plattsburgh Regional Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG) where she leads a talented team responsible for defensive and affirmative litigation, regulatory oversight, consumer complaints, and community outreach in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties. Before being appointed to this role in August 2021, Susan was the Managing Attorney of the Canton and Plattsburgh offices of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc., (LASNNY), where she supervised LASNNY’s family law and housing units, substantially expanded LASNNY’s funding and grant partnerships, and established the first legal services contract between a Civil Legal Services provider and a Tribal Nation in New York State to bring LASNNY’s free civil legal services to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. Since joining the OAG, Susan has amplified the OAG’s North Country presence by assembling a dynamic litigation team, expanding outreach, elevating regional issues to the Attorney General, and tackling systemic civil rights violations and discrimination.

Susan is a proud graduate of the State University of New York’s Erie Community College-City Campus, University at Buffalo, and University at Buffalo School of Law. Out of the office, Susan enjoys yoga, qigong, gardening, music, sailing, hiking, cycling, skiing, traveling, and relishing life with her loving husband, Dean, four beautiful adult children, Autumn, Jeffrey, Zachary, and Sophia, an exuberant English Cream Golden Retriever, Nigel, and a disinterested cat, Monty.

Total Care Resources

Changing Treatment Table with Rails
Changing tables and mechanical lifts are designed to safely and efficiently support individuals who may have limited mobility or require assistance with personal care tasks. These devices ensure that caregivers can perform transfers and positioning without straining themselves, reducing the risk of injury for both the caregiver and the person being assisted. The mechanical lift allows for smooth transitions from wheelchairs or other mobility devices to the changing table, enhancing the user’s comfort and safety.

A changing table and mechanical lift will be available for people requiring total care. For more information please use our Contact Form, and send a message with the Changing Table and Mechanical Lift subject.

Media Information

People with Disabilities on Adirondack Pine Forest Trail

Thank you to all of our great media partners who have covered the Adirondack Nature Festival for People with Disabilities with such compassion, and care. You have all been supportive and gracious.

As you know, the festival is focused on providing opportunities for people with disabilities, their families, friends and supporters, to connect with nature together in an environment that is as undisturbed as possible.

We need your help to ensure that everyone can peacefully enjoy the festival, so we ask that you limit your interactions during the event. This includes;

  • Restricting interviews with participants, vendors, speakers, staff, and volunteers.
  • Not recording on any of the trails or program areas while they are being used by our program participants. This includes cameras, cell phones, video cameras, audio recorders, etc.

The only exceptions are during the opening ceremony (ribbon cutting), and opening remarks.

These measures are in place to create a safe, comfortable, and undisturbed environment for all attendees.

We will have professional photographers and cinematographers that will document various aspects of the festival. You can request images, and/or an interview, by using our Contact form, and selecting Media Inquiry as your message subject.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.