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
The Winter of ’32 Jane Alford Hildenbrandt My father, Ruel Alford, was the son of Harvey and Effie Alford. In the early 20th century, his family owned a great d... Read More
Saved by a Miracle Luke Cyphers Blink and you'll miss it, an almost throwaway line in the 2004 film Miracle, one that hints at what Adirondack locals... Read More
A Who’s Who of Adirondack Hermits Niki Kourofsky In 1852, a group of surveyors surprised an old man living in a crude shelter near Herkimer County’s Ice Cave Mountain... Read More
Nick Stoner Philip Terrie If you’ve ever driven into the Adirondacks on Route 10, you’ve passed, a few miles inside the Blue Line, the Nick Sto... Read More
The Improbable County Eliza Jane Darling “Our stomachs live in towns.… That is where the work is. Our stomachs know this. But our hearts are usually somewhere... Read More