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
Soul of the Summits Brian Mann When you've lived as long as Grace Hudowalski, people are always asking how you're doing. It's a hazard faced by nine... Read More
March Madness Alan Wechsler When I arrived at the Hot Biscuit Diner in Ticonderoga to meet Bob Bearor, he was nowhere to be seen. Then the waitr... Read More
Shots and Chasers Lynn Woods The headlines of the December 31, 1925, Ticonderoga Sentinel indicated that the war between bootleggers and ordinary... Read More
Powerless Galen Crane A January thaw is nothing out of the ordinary here. The very term bespeaks of a well-earned punctuality: a couple mon... Read More
Reveries of Camp Deerlands Maria Bucciferro As you drive north on Route 30, between Long and Tupper lakes, you enter a tract of vast private woodlands extending ... Read More
One Simple Life Daniel Way Oct. 21, 1933. Twenty one years old. Received for my birthday one pair leather gloves, one dollar, one cake and five ... Read More
When the News Was New Amy Godine n't move; it doesn't have to. What changes is the world around it: Hemlines, buildings, entire civilizations rise and... Read More
March Past Edward Kanze Decades after I last played John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” on a trumpet, with its thrilling strains ... Read More
Rise and Fall of a Company Town Anne Mackinnon Standing on Main Street of Au Sable Forks today it is almost impossible to imagine the town as it looked and was live... Read More