History

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...

Thomas Delaronde Tiohkwanóiron and his family were the last to leave Moss Lake in 1977. In the early hours of the mor...

There are lives so well lived, and Julian Reiss lived such a life, that the most basic question is the most difficult...

Once upon a time, there was a larger-than-life man named Charles R. Wood—better known to all as Charley—who dedicated...

I went searching for the ghosts of Hope Falls while unboxing some old books last year in my Maryland basement, partic...

On a rainy night in May 1945, at age 48, Quintal died unexpectedly on the northern shore of the Upper Hudson River, n...

"Adirondackers are made of sterner stuff,” my mother would say as we passed Glens Falls, heading up to visit family. ...

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