History

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...

When you've lived as long as Grace Hudowalski, people are always asking how you're doing. It's a hazard faced by nine...

When I arrived at the Hot Biscuit Din­er in Ticonderoga to meet Bob Bearor, he was nowhere to be seen. Then the waitr...

The headlines of the December 31, 1925, Ticonderoga Sentinel indicated that the war be­tween bootleggers and ordinary...

A January thaw is nothing out of the ordinary here. The very term bespeaks of a well-earned punctuality: a couple mon...

As you drive north on Route 30, between Long and Tupper lakes, you enter a tract of vast private woodlands extending ...

Oct. 21, 1933. Twenty one years old. Received for my birthday one pair leather gloves, one dollar, one cake and five ...