History

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...

The tanneries were dead and the sawmills were dying. Lumberjacks were more often spotted at sportsmen’s shows than in...

March 15, 1911. Winter was losing its grip in the eastern Adirondacks. At last it was time for the big move. Ray Henr...

Fifty years have passed since 18-year-old Marcus Stoddard signed on as a mechanic at Henry’s Garage. The business, wh...

The hermit thrush is a compact bird, a snowball with big eyes topped with feathers the color of sugar-maple bark dapp...

In April 1908 subscribers to Woods and Waters received a letter from twenty­-eight-year-old editor Harry V. Radford d...

Cooper Holmes has a cold. Yet the virus hasn’t prevented the 17-year-old from showing up at 7:15 a.m. to sing for ...

In 1967 Laurance Rockefeller, brother of then-governor Nelson Rockefeller, called for the creation of a 1.7-million-a...