The Girls Next Door Niki Kourofsky It wasn’t a very polite question to ask an older gentleman—one of the last of the Adirondack lumber-camp generation—w... Read More
Uncle Fitz Neal Burdick The first thing I notice about the watch is its weight—it seems heavy for a timepiece, maybe more than a pound. Made ... Read More
Taylor, Tankard and King Amy Godine February is Black History Month. What this means in Adirondack classrooms is pretty much what it means everywhere: St... Read More
The Noteworthy Mr. Appo Amy Godine Memories of London would seem an odd conversation topic for two Adirondack farmers in the 1850s. But suppose the frie... Read More
Adirondack Blackface Amy Godine George Primrose and Lew Dockstader, “veteran stars of the minstrel world,” according to The Post-Star, brought their ... Read More
Sheltered Past James H. S. McGregor In 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of men and women from Boston and New York headed to the ... Read More
Chagall in Cranberry Lake Lisa Bramen Reviled as a “degenerate” by the Nazis, celebrated by the Paris art world and investigated for suspected Communist ti... Read More
My Adirondack Life Dr. Alice Paden Green When people ask me about my life as a black person growing up in the Adirondacks among a predominately white populati... Read More
Cast in Iron? Jaime Fuller There are two historical markers outside the Six Nations Indian Museum, in Onchiota, in Franklin County. Both engrave... Read More
Fast Times on the Hudson Christopher Shaw Our raft left the Indian River behind and entered the Hudson three miles below the Lake Abanakee Dam, outside Indian ... Read More
The First Earth Day Louis C. Curth The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event that united the nation in common cause for our enviro... Read More