Martha-Lee Owen, Broker/Owner
Martha Lee has been a full time real estate professional since 1979, when she moved to Keene Valley from the Soho neighborhood of New York City. She is descended from early Adirondack settlers on both sides of her family, and is the second generation of her family to operate Adirondack Realty.

After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she participated in and worked for multi-cultural and international educational programs for seventeen years. These included Crossroads Africa, American Field Service, Head Start, Chinatown Planning Council (NYC), and California public schools.

Martha Lee is past president of the Essex County Real Estate Board and past member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Adirondack Board . She holds the GRI and CBR designations in Real Estate. She likes the variety and challenge of the real estate business and feels fortunate to be doing work which takes her outdoors and allows her to explore the region's communities and by-ways, working with many interesting people. She is eager to do her best for the customers, clients and staff of Adirondack Realty. Some of her outside interests include African Art, figure skating, land use and social policy, genealogy and gardening.

She is married to Frank Owen, an artist and teacher. They have a daughter, Kate,who is the original creator of the Adirondack Realty Web Site, and a beautiful granddaughter, Alejandra Zoe.

Adrian Edmonds, Founder
Adrian Edmonds, founder of Adirondack Realty, passed away on August 23, 2005. He had lived most of his 96 years in the hamlet of Keene Valley. As a young man he assisted his father in construction before attending Antioch College in Ohio. Upon his return home, he founded a building business with his father and brother. Between 1932 and almost to the time of his death he had been involved in the construction of over 100 homes, participating in the design of many of these. He also did many remodeling projects. Beginning in the 1950s, he purchased and developed over 600 acres of land in Keene Valley, providing building sites for many existing homes.

In 1936 Adrian became a licensed real estate broker and operated the company until Martha Lee became Broker Owner.

Adrian served the community as volunteer fireman, Justice of the Peace, town councilman, assessor, master of Adirondack Masonic Lodge 602 and as deacon and treasurer of the Congregational Church. Adrian enjoyed developing and selling the lands he purchased and recording colorful incidents of local oral history, excerpts of which can be found in this website. His dream of writing a book of some of his memories was realized when his book, "Recollections of an Adirondacker" was published and a book signing was held at the Keene Valley Library in February 2005.

Chuck Gillman, Associate Broker and Senior Agent
LTC Charles "Chuck" Gillman passed away on November 9, 2008. He joined Adirondack Realty as a salesperson in 1992 and in 2005 became an Associate Broker.

Chuck was born in Jay, but moved to Keene Valley at an early age. After High School he was drafted, attended and graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1954, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1970 and Army Aviation Training as a pilot for both the fixed wing and rotary wing planes. He was the deputy director of the U.S. Army Department of Fixed Wing Training from 1970 to 1971 at Fort Stewart, GA. He served in aviation in the Army during the Korean conflict and the Vietnam War. After 20 years of dedicated service to our country, Chuck retired from the Army, and later served as Supervisor for the Town of Keene for 10 years before joining our Sales Team at Adirondack Realty.

Chuck was a member of the Keene Fire Department and the American Legion. In addition, he was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and golf.

Chuck is survived by his wife, the former Joan Roy Gillman, two sons, David and Paul and six grandchildren.

William McHone, Associate Broker
At the start of 2007 William became an independent RealtorŪ pursuing his own vision of servicing the needs of buyers and sellers of real estate in our region. In the early spring he stopped to share his ideas with Martha Lee. Those discussions continued and by the summer William accepted Martha Lee's invitation to join her agency.

While completing his undergraduate work at UVM in Burlington, Vermont, William was hired as a computer programmer for IBM in nearby Essex Junction. For the next 18 years he designed and implemented leading edge software systems, taught programming classes and held various staff positions. He began graduate courses in computer science at UVM and is a graduate of IBM's prestigious Systems Research Institute. In 1987 he moved to NYC to join Morgan Stanley and work on automated trading systems. He remained in NYC at various financial firms over the next 12 years.

William has always been fascinated by the history of the Lake Champlain Valley. He would join his aunt on archeological digs and listen to stories passed down by ancestors that first came to the area during the French & Indian War in the mid 18th century. The war he fights today is to maintain a single digit golf handicap and to qualify for NYSGA events. He settled in Westport because it has the finest and most challenging championship golf course in the Adirondack Park, the Westport CC.

The Westport Chamber of Commerce, the Lake Champlain Regional Marketing Committee and NYSGA GHIN representative are all important uses of William's time and commitment to the area. William puts technology to work with his approach to Marketing Solutions for Buyers and Sellers of real estate.

Look for properties that say, Marketed by Wm.

Wendy Sheasby, Licensed Salesperson
Wendy has lived in Keene Valley her whole life and has been in real estate since 2001. She attended Woodbury College in Montpelier, Vermont, where she was working in a paralegal program and is how she began her real estate career. Wendy has a love for the Adirondacks and especially in the valley where she would like it to remain pristine with its forests and river beds. Wendy is eager to use her skills and knowledge of the area to help her clients find just the right property that fits their needs.

Elizabeth Preston, Rental Agent and Licensed Salesperson
Beth came to Adirondack Realty in April of 2005 as our Secretary/Receptionist. In 2008 Beth became a Licensed Real Estate Agent and in the spring of 2009 became our Rental Agent. Beth enjoys working in the Rental Department. She is a lifelong resident of the Adirondacks and with her knowledge of the community and surrounding areas, is very helpful to people wanting to vacation here. Beth resides in Jay, New York with her husband, Roger and their two sons, Brandon and Roger, Jr. When Beth isn't busy at work or with her family, she enjoys reading and volunteering at her children's school.

Kathy Yaniro, Office Coordinator
Kathy, her husband John, and their three children, Michael, Matthew and Katie, moved here in April of 1993 from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Kathy started at Adirondack Realty in the winter of 1996 as the office coordinator and is responsible for all of the advertising and maintaining our web site. In addition to working, Kathy also enjoys reading, traveling, spending time with her husband and children and is active in her church.

Kate Edmonds Owen, Web and Advertising Design
Kate's the third generation of the Edmonds family to work at Adirondack Realty. Born in 1971 in New York City, she and her parents moved back to Keene Valley in 1980, just in time for the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Kate has received degrees from Simons Rock College and SUNY Stony Brook, graduating with a B.A. in 1992. She has spent much of the past few years glued to a computer while honing on her publishing skills. She left her job as production manager for Ulster Publishing, where she worked round-the-clock on The Herald, Woodstock Times and Ulster Magazine, in October 1996 for a six month journey to England. She couldn't resist summer in Keene Valley, so she returned to America in June to refine this site and gaze at the mountains.

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