Lady and the Champ: A Saranac Lake Love Story Clayton Trutor Harry Greb was one of the world’s greatest professional fighters. He is still regarded as among the most accomplished... Read More
Flash Dance: Seneca Ray Stoddard’s Night Photography Daniel Way Adirondack chronicler and biographer Maitland De Sormo described Seneca Ray Stoddard as “gentle, easy-going, (and) un... Read More
Cold War Hot Spots: Missile Silos in the Adirondacks Tim Rowland The North Country nukes became front page news, their fearsome firepower aimed at the Russian motherland, but also at... Read More
On the Clock: A Century-Old Tradition in Westport James Starbuck It needs winding twice a week, if you can get to it and know how. And frankly, it’s not that easy. You’ve got to be i... Read More
The Strange Case of Betsey Hays John Warren For twenty-one days and nights six men would take shifts standing watch and making careful notes. They planned to scr... Read More
Tales from Coot Hill Niki Kourofsky But then the tiny outpost, which is snuggled in the highlands between Port Henry and Crown Point, kept popping up in ... Read More
Murderer in Mooers Forks Annie Stoltie Think serial killer, and Berkowitz, Bundy or Dahmer come to mind. However, in the 1890s, following Jack the Ripper’s ... Read More
A Trove of Vintage Lake George Photographs Tony Hall For 75 years, Jule and Fred Thatcher captured everything from chowder parties to swim marathons and everyone from pri... Read More
The Black Woods Amy Godine If by chance The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier lands in your bookstore this Novembe... Read More
Harold and Faith: A New Exhibit Spotlights Weston’s Muse Lisa Bramen His artwork was called “rough and rugged as hickory stumps,” like the man himself. Friends described her as “soft, ge... Read More
Silent as the Grave: A Forgotten Quaker Burial Ground Neal Burdick The humble, plain-living Quakers who lie buried here rejected displays of vanity and so kept death, as they had life,... Read More
From Old Mountain Phelps to Today’s Adirondack Guides Annie Stoltie Plenty has changed—not just the park’s physical landscape, with its trail system and network of highways that connect... Read More