History

Think serial killer, and Berkowitz, Bundy or Dahmer come to mind. However, in the 1890s, following Jack the Ripper’s ...

For 75 years, Jule and Fred Thatcher captured everything from chowder parties to swim marathons and everyone from pri...

If by chance The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier lands in your bookstore this Novembe...

His artwork was called “rough and rugged as hickory stumps,” like the man himself. Friends described her as “soft, ge...

The humble, plain-living Quakers who lie buried here rejected displays of vanity and so kept death, as they had life,...

Plenty has changed—not just the park’s physical landscape, with its trail system and network of highways that connect...

A few months ago I came across a 1788 handwritten letter by a French nobleman, the Chevalier de La Luzerne, that was ...

Couples swayed to “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” but the young man stood transfixed. He held his hands over his ...

I knew much more about the ecology of Walden Pond than about Thoreau’s connection to abolitionism, but that would soo...

For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of hut...

Bids at 30, now 30, would you go for 40, I hear 40!” Numbers were rattled off in a mesmerizing chant. The crowd liste...

Everyone can—and generally does—have their own idea of Adirondack style, making it a knotty concept to nail down. The...