History

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

In 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of men and women from Boston and New York headed to the ...

Reviled as a “degenerate” by the Nazis, celebrated by the Paris art world and investigated for suspected Communist ti...

When people ask me about my life as a black person growing up in the Adirondacks among a predominately white populati...

There are two historical markers outside the Six Nations Indian Museum, in Onchiota, in Franklin County. Both engrave...

Our raft left the Indian River behind and entered the Hudson three miles below the Lake Abanakee Dam, outside Indian ...

The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event that united the nation in common cause for our enviro...

My father, Ruel Alford, was the son of Harvey and Effie Alford. In the early 20th century, his family owned a great d...

Blink and you'll miss it, an almost throwaway line in the 2004 film Miracle, one that hints at what Adirondack locals...

In 1852, a group of surveyors surprised an old man living in a crude shelter near Herkimer County’s Ice Cave Mountain...

If you’ve ever driven into the Adirondacks on Route 10, you’ve passed, a few miles inside the Blue Line, the Nick Sto...

“Our stomachs live in towns.… That is where the work is. Our stomachs know this. But our hearts are usually somewhere...