Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in Albany

Michael J. Burgess grew up in Watertown and graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton. After college, he moved to Albany. In 2007, he was appointed the director of the New York State Office for the Aging by Governor Eliot Spitzer and served until November 2010. He is the author of Rose Kryzak and the Senior Action Movement in New York (2003), A Long Shot to Glory: How Lake Placid Saved the Winter Olympics and Restored the Nation's Pride (2012) and Keeper of the Olympic Flame: Lake Placid's Jack Shea vs. Avery Brundage and the Nazi Olympics (2016). His work has appeared in Newsday, the Albany Times Union, Adirondack Life and the New York State Archives magazine.