AUBURN - Musician/storyteller/author Peggy Lynn is also a self-described mountain woman.

The Auburn native has made it her life's mission to use the words of songs, stories and books to spread the history of great women in the Adirondack region.

On Sunday, Lynn was on hand at the Cayuga Museum in Auburn, to present “Remarkable Women in Song and Story,” an hour-long performance of folk tunes, tales, and historical information about women's roles in Adirondack development.

Lynn's appearance was the first in a series the museum is holding to celebrate Women's History Month, said Carrie Bennett, museum curator, during Sunday's performance.

Bennett said that she knew Lynn during her time at SUNY Oswego, and that the “spirit of her music would make a perfect fit” for the series.

Lynn, now a Red Creek resident, has recorded seven albums of folk and children's music, and in 2004 published “Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks,” a book she co-authored with Sandra Weber.

“Sandra is an Adirondack historian ... whom I met at a concert I gave up there,” Lynn said after the show.

The two have since collaborated on other literature, and also perform together regularly, she added.

Lynn produces her music through her own record label, Quercus Music.

Since she studied forestry in college, she explained, she recorded an album of songs about nature called “Bio Songs,” a collection of tunes that explain various environmental processes.

In addition, Lynn presents “Bio Songs” as a state-funded Arts in Education program to area schools.

At Sunday's show, Lynn opened with “Stand a Chance,” a song from her latest CD that “sums up Adirondack women and their contribution to the area,” she said.

Lynn introduced each song with a brief explanation of its historical relevance.

Highlights included “Margaret,” a tune about Camp Sagamore founder and recreational therapy pioneer Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt and “Give Me Wings,” the tale of a tuberculosis patient seemingly cured by the Adirondacks' fresh air.