History

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 ...

n't move; it doesn't have to. What changes is the world around it: Hemlines, buildings, entire civilizations rise and...

Decades after I last played John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” on a trumpet, with its thrilling strains ...

Standing on Main Street of Au Sable Forks today it is almost impossible to imagine the town as it looked and was live...