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
Old Wives’ Tale Eliza Jane Darling The tanneries were dead and the sawmills were dying. Lumberjacks were more often spotted at sportsmen’s shows than in... Read More
Henry’s Garage Tom Henry March 15, 1911. Winter was losing its grip in the eastern Adirondacks. At last it was time for the big move. Ray Henr... Read More
When I Come Home Tom Henry Fifty years have passed since 18-year-old Marcus Stoddard signed on as a mechanic at Henry’s Garage. The business, wh... Read More
Birding with Teddy Roosevelt Jaime Fuller The hermit thrush is a compact bird, a snowball with big eyes topped with feathers the color of sugar-maple bark dapp... Read More
A Legend in His Own Mind Christine Jerome In April 1908 subscribers to Woods and Waters received a letter from twenty-eight-year-old editor Harry V. Radford d... Read More
Kate Smith Today Luke Cyphers 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 ... Read More
Sprawl at the Gates Bill McKibben In 1967 Laurance Rockefeller, brother of then-governor Nelson Rockefeller, called for the creation of a 1.7-million-a... Read More