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
The Revolutionary Roots of Lake Luzerne’s Name Richard Dressner A few months ago I came across a 1788 handwritten letter by a French nobleman, the Chevalier de La Luzerne, that was ... Read More
A Schroon Lake Love Affair Jennifer Dorr-Moon Couples swayed to “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” but the young man stood transfixed. He held his hands over his ... Read More
For the Record: Uncovering the Stories of Black Pioneers Curt Stager I knew much more about the ecology of Walden Pond than about Thoreau’s connection to abolitionism, but that would soo... Read More
From Cold River to the North Pole Adirondack Life For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of hut... Read More
Mystery Man: Unpacking an Adirondack Life Caperton Tissot Bids at 30, now 30, would you go for 40, I hear 40!” Numbers were rattled off in a mesmerizing chant. The crowd liste... Read More
The Roots of Rustic Style Niki Kourofsky Everyone can—and generally does—have their own idea of Adirondack style, making it a knotty concept to nail down. The... Read More