History

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 ...

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...