History

In 1778, Alexander Henry “the Elder,” a rich merchant in Montreal, found himself inconvenienced by a non-paying debto...

He was dying. And after caring for his brother eight years earlier—comforting him until his last gasp—he knew how thi...

For a handful of Augusts, Saranac Lake was the summer home of professional football in the Northeast. Between 1946 an...

Glazed off-white bricks were chosen, 125 years ago, for the interior of the first laboratory devoted to the study of ...

The leads have all ended the same—evaporating like smoke against a landscape that holds the promise of beauty and the...

The view from the top of Lake George’s Prospect Mountain is amazing. You don’t have to take a long, sweaty hike to en...

It wasn’t a very polite question to ask an older gentleman—one of the last of the Adirondack lumber-camp generation—w...

The first thing I notice about the watch is its weight—it seems heavy for a timepiece, maybe more than a pound. Made ...

February is Black History Month. What this means in Adirondack classrooms is pretty much what it means everywhere: St...

Memories of London would seem an odd conversation topic for two Adirondack farmers in the 1850s. But suppose the frie...

George Primrose and Lew Dockstader, “veteran stars of the minstrel world,” according to The Post-Star, brought their ...